ERICA elegans.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores capitati, terminales, cernui. Pedunculi colorati, bracteis tribus instructi etiam coloratis. Corolla deorsum ventricosa, superne arctata, basi carnea, ore viridi. Folia terna, trigona, linearia, glauca, parum incurvata, et patentes. Caulis robustus, fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus; ramulis patulis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers headed, terminal, and nodding. Peduncles coloured, and furnished with three floral leaves also coloured. Blossom bellied below, contracted above, flesh-coloured at the base, with a green mouth. Leaves by threes, three-sided, linear, of a sea green colour, a little incurved, and spreading. Stem stout, shrubby, a foot high, branching; the branches spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from November till February.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. A branch with the involucrum of the flowers.
