ERICA glandulosa.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores terminales, umbellati, cernui, 4-6 in singula umbella. Corolla ovata, nitida, purpurea, laciniis subrotundis, erectis. Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis inæqualibus purpureis, pilis glanduliferis ciliatis. Folia quaterna, expansa, pilis apice glandulosis ciliata. Caulis fruticosus, sub-pedalis, flexuosus. Rami et ramuli numerosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminal, umbelled, nodding, from 4 to 6 in each umbel. Blossom egg-shaped, shining, purple, with roundish erect segments. Cup four-leaved, with unequal purple leaflets edged with gland-bearing hairs. Leaves in fours, expanded, edged with hairs which are glandular at the points. Stem shrubby, near a foot high, flexuose. The large and small branches are numerous.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till January.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
