ERICA aurea.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-inclusæ. Flores horizontaliter verticillati, prope ramorum summitatem. Pedunculi brevissimi, bracteis tribus instructi. Corolla cylindracea, glabra, aurantia: laciniis oris parum reflexis. Folia sena, linearia, glabra, apice incurvata, patentia. Caulis erectus, fruticosus, pedalis. Rami verticillati, patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just within the blossom. Flowers grow horizontally in whorls near the summit of the branches. Footstalks very short, and furnished with three floral leaves. Blossom cylinder-shaped, smooth, and of a gold colour: segments of the mouth a little reflexed. Leaves by sixes, linear, and smooth, turned inward at the point, and spreading. Stem upright, shrubby, a foot high. The branches grow in whorls, and are spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till September.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
