ERICA staminea.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ. Filamenta capillaria, prælonga, extra flores pendula. Flores solitarii, terminales, in ramulis pernumerosis lateralibus ternatis. Corolla parva, luteo-albida: laciniis patentibus, rotundatis. Folia ternata, erecta, parva, carnosa, lucida. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis: ramis numerosis, verticillatis, patulis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless. Threads hair-like, very long, and hanging out of the flower. Flowers solitary, and terminal, on very numerous lateral ternate branches. Blossom small, of a yellow white colour, with segments spreading and rounded. Leaves by threes, erect, small, fleshy, and shining. Stem shrubby, two feet high, with numerous whorled branches slightly spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till September.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom. 3. Blossom of a white variety. 4. The chives and pointal, magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
