ERICA fragrans.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornes, exertæ. Flores plerumque terni, laterales et terminales, parvi: pedunculis longiusculis. Corolla campanulata, fragrans, pallide purpurea: laciniis majusculis revolutis. Folia ternata, subulata, erecta, glauca, acuta, supra plana, subtus sulcata. Caulis fruticosus, semi-pedalis, valde ramosus: ramis patentibus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, and without the blossom. Flowers grow mostly by threes, lateral, and terminal, small, and with longish peduncles. Blossom bell-shaped, sweet-scented, pale purple, with largish revolute segments. Leaves in threes, awl-shaped, upright, of a glaucous green, and sharp-pointed, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath. Stem shrubby, half a foot high, very much branched, with the branches spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from March till May.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal, magnified.
