ERICA emarginata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, sub-inclusæ. Flores ramulos terminant, plerumque terni. Calyx emarginatus pilis nigris: corollis campanulatis, albis: limbo maximo, reflexo. Folia terna, trigona, crassa, reflexa, acuta, lucida, supra plana, subtus canaliculata. Caulis erectus, dumosus, sub-pedalis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, and just within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches, mostly by threes. The empalement is emarginated with black hairs. Blossom bell-shaped, and white: the border is large, and reflexed. Leaves by threes, three-sided, thick, reflexed, pointed, and shining, flat on their upper surface, and channelled beneath. Stem upright, bushy, and near a foot high.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till October.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
