ERICA cordata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ. Floras terminales, in apicibus ramulorum confertissimi, capitati, erecti. Pedunculi breves. Corolla globosa, glabra, albida; laciniis limbi rotundatis, patentibus. Folia terna, cordata, patentia, marginibus revolutis, supra villosa, subtus lanata. Caulis humilis, spithamæus. Rami et ramuli numerosi, conferti, flexuosi, patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers terminal, crowded very close together at the ends of the branches in upright heads. Footstalks short. Blossom globular, smooth, and white. Segments of the border round and spreading. Leaves by threes, heart-shaped, spreading, and rolled back at the edges, hairy on the upper surface, and woolly beneath. Stem low, a span high. The large and small branches are numerous, crowded together, flexuose, and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till June.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement and blossom. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
