ERICA calycina, minor.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores terni, in ultimis ramulis terminales. Pedunculi carnei, bracteis tribus minutis coloratis instructi. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis spathulatis, corollâ longioribus. Corolla minuta, urceolata, saturate carnea, ad basin pallida; oris laciniis patentibus. Folia terna, lanceolata, lucide viridia, adpressa. Caulis filiformis, spithamæus, erecto-patens, ramosissimus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers grow by threes, and terminate the smaller branches. The footstalks are flesh-coloured, and furnished with three small coloured floral leaves. Cup four-leaved. Leaflets spathula-shaped, and longer than the blossom. Blossom very small, pitcher-shaped, of a deep flesh-colour, and pale at the base: the segments of the border spreading. Leaves by threes, lance-shaped, of a shining green, and pressed to the branches. Stem thread-shaped, a span high, erect, spreading, and very much branched.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives and pointal. 4. A chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
