ERICA oppositifolia.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, plerumque bini. Pedunculi breves, bracteis duabus minutis adpressis. Calyx magnus, ovatus. Corolla urceolata, alba: laciniis reflexis. Folia binatim opposita, triquetra, nitida, adpressa. Caulis semipedalis, filiformis, ad basin ramosissimus, flexuosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches mostly by twos. Footstalks short, having two small floral leaves pressed to them. The empalement is large, and egg-shaped. Blossom pitcher-shaped, and white. The segments of the border are reflexed. Leaves grow opposite in pairs, three-sided, shining, and pressed to the stem. Stem half a foot high, and thread-shaped: the lower part of the plant very much branched and flexuose.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
