ERICA vestita, fulgida.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ. Flores supra medium ramorum, conferti, numerosi; pedunculis brevibus. Corolla uncialis et ultra, clavata, læte et saturate rubra. Folia plerumque sena, linearia, deorsum in petiolos capillares attenuata, et inde tremula. Caulis fruticosus, tripedalis, ramosus; ramis plerumque erectis, sub-simplicibus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers above the middle of the branches, crowded and numerous. The footstalks are short. Blossoms above an inch long, club-shaped, and of a deep bright red colour. Leaves mostly by sixes, linear, attenuated downwards into capillary footstalks, and thence tremulous. Stem shrubby, three feet high, branching. The branches are mostly upright, and simple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till September.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
