ERICA tiaræflora.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, exertæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, terni, cernui. Pedunculi longi. Corolla tiaræformis, apice incarnata, ad basin albida; laciniis minutis, obtusis, erectis. Folia terna, obtusa, linearia, rigida, erecto-patentia. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, sub-sesquipedalis, ramosus. Rami terni, patentes, erecti.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches by threes, nodding. Footstalks long. Blossom turban-shaped, flesh-coloured at the ends, and whitish at the base; the segments of the border are very small, obtuse, and upright. Leaves by threes, blunt, linear, harsh, and between erect and spreading. Stem shrubby, upright, near a foot and a half high, and branching. Branches by threes, spreading, and upright.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till July.
REFERENCE.
1. Empalement and blossom, magnified. 2. A blossom without its empalement, magnified. 3. A chive magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
