ERICA penicillata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, exertæ, longissimæ. Flores solitarii, penduli, medio ramorum spicati. Pedunculi colorati, longi. Corolla conica, purpurea; laciniis minutis, erectis, luteo-virentibus. Folia terna, linearia, fasciculata, glabra, patentia. Caulis erectus, fruticosus, sub-bipedalis. Rami sub-simplices; ramuli conferti.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, without the blossom, and very long. Flowers grow solitary, hanging down, making a spike from the middle of the branches. Footstalks coloured, and long. Blossom conical, and purple. Segments small, upright, and of a greenish yellow. Leaves by threes, linear, bundled, smooth, and spreading. Stem upright, shrubby, near two feet high. Branches nearly simple; smaller branches crowded.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified.
