ERICA vestita, incarnata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores aggregatim verticillati, supra medium ramulorum. Pedunculi breves, bracteis tribus foliiformibus instructi. Corolla clavata, uncialis, basin versus albicans, superne læte rosea. Folia sena, septena, vel octona, erecta, aggregata, linearia, in petiolos capillares deorsum attenuata, et inde pereleganter tremulosa. Caulis erectus, bipedalis; ramis simplicibus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow in crowded whorls, above the middle of the branches. Footstalks short, and furnished with three leaf-shaped floral leaves. Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, whitish towards the base, and upwards of a bright rose colour. Leaves by sixes, sevens, or eights, upright, crowded, linear, attenuated downwards into capillary footstalks, and thence elegantly tremulous. Stem upright, two feet high; with simple branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified.
