ERICA lanuginosa.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Flores axillares, sæpe solitarii, subsessiles. Corolla ovata, ad basin inflata, apice acuta, tomentosa, albido-lutescens, basi fusco-purpurascens. Folia terna, linearia, lanata, ciliata, patentes. Caulis humilis, robustus, sub-pedalis, fruticosus; ramis numerosis, plerumque simplicibus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers axillary, often solitary, nearly sessile. Blossom egg-shaped, swelled at the base, and pointed at the end, downy, of a dingey yellow white, and of a purply brown at the base. Leaves by threes, linear, with woolly hair, and spreading. Stem low, stout, scarce a foot high, shrubby. The branches are numerous, and mostly simple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from October till January.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom. 3. The same spread open. 4. The chives and pointal. 5. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
