ERICA umbellata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, exertæ. Flores umbellati, terminales, tres ad decem in singulâ umbellâ. Calyx duplex, adpressus; exterior triphyllus, et minor. Corolla globoso-conica, pallide rubro-purpurea, laciniis erectis. Folia ternata, parva, linearia, obtusa. Caulis fruticosus, flexuoso-erectus; ramulis filiformibus, patulis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers umbelled and terminal, from three to ten in each umbel. Empalement double, pressed to the blossom; the outer one three-leaved, and smaller. Blossom globosely cone-shaped, of a pale red purple, with the segments erect. Leaves in threes, small, linear, and blunt. Stem shrubby, flexuosely erect; the branches thread-shaped, and a little spreading.
Native of Portugal. In bloom from April till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement magnified. 2. The seed-bud, chives, and pointal, magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified.
