ERICA canaliculata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ, nigræ. Flores in ultimis ramulis terminales, plerumque terni, cernui. Pedunculi longi, colorati. Corolla campanulata, pallide purpurea; oris laciniis ovatis, acutis. Folia terna, erecta, obtusa, supra plana, subtus canaliculata. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus, ferrugineus. Rami et ramuli verticillati, numerosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom, and black. Flowers terminate the ends of the smaller branches, mostly by threes, hanging down. Footstalks long and coloured. Blossom bell-shaped, and of a pale purple: segments of the border are egg-shaped, and sharp-pointed. Leaves by threes, upright, and blunt, flat on the upper surface, and channelled beneath. Stem shrubby, two feet high, upright, and rusty. The large and smaller branches are whorled and numerous.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from March till May.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. A blossom. 4. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 5. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
