ERICA mucronata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ, stylo exserto. Flores in ramulis terminales, terni vel seni, cernui. Pedunculi longi, colorati. Corolla campanulata, incarnata, laciniis acutis patentibus. Folia terna, trigona, glabra, patentia, apice mucronata, incurvata, glauco-viridia. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis, ramosus. Rami numerosi, erecto-patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom: shaft without. Flowers terminate the smaller branches, from three to six, hanging down. Footstalks long, and coloured. Blossom bell-shaped and flesh-coloured: segments of the border pointed, and spreading. Leaves by threes, three-sided, smooth, spreading, mucronated at the end, turned inwards, and of a glaucous green. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, branching. The branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
