ERICA tenuiflora.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ultimis ramulis quaterni, patentes; pedunculis brevissimis. Perianthium duplex; exterius triphyllum; foliolis lanceolatis; interius tetraphyllum, longius. Corolla tubæformis, tenuissima, lutea; oris laciniis acuminatis, patentibus. Folia terna et quaterna, linearia, erecta. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, debilis. Rami et ramuli virgati.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow by fours, at the ends of the small branches, spreading. Footstalks very short. Cup double; the outer one is three-leaved; the leaflets lance-shaped; the inner one is four-leaved, and longer than the outer. Blossom trumpet-shaped, very slender and yellow; segments of the border sharp-pointed, and spreading. Leaves by threes and fours, linear, and upright. Stem shrubby, a foot high, and weak; the large and small branches are twiggy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
