ERICA dumosa.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ. Flores ramos terminant in umbellis. Corolla pendula, urceolata, purpurea. Pedunculi patentes, longi, tenues. Folia ternata, ovata, hispida, patentia, margine revoluta, subtus glauca. Caulis humilis, fruticosus. Rami numerosi, filiformes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in umbels. Blossoms pendulous, pitcher-shaped, purple. Footstalks spreading, long, and slender. Leaves by threes, ovate, hispid, spreading, rolled back at the edges, and glaucous beneath. Stem low and shrubby. Branches numerous and thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till November.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. Chives and pointal, summit magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified.
