ERICA sordida.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, exertæ. Flores sub-sessiles, in apicibus ramulorum, nunc solitarii, nunc bini, vel terni. Corolla tubulosa, clavata, curvata, pollicaris, sordide lutea, pilosa, oris laciniis recurvatis. Folia quaterna, linearia, pilosa, obtusa. Caulis fruticosus, sesqui-pedalis, erectus, apice pilosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and without the blossom. Flowers nearly sessile, upon the ends of the smaller branches, growing solitarily, or by twos and threes. Blossom tubularly club-shaped, curved, an inch long, of a dirty yellow colour, and hairy: the segments of the mouth rolled back. Leaves grow by fours, linear, hairy, and blunt. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, upright, and hairy at the top.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till December.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. Chives and pointal, summit magnified.
