ERICA pumila.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ; flores plerumque ternata, patento-cernui; pedunculi breves, colorati bracteis tribus coloratis instructi; corolla cylindracea, incarnata; laciniis oris viridibus pallidis, erectis; folia ternata, linearia, obtusa; caulis humilis, ramis numerosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom; flowers grow mostly by threes, spreading or nodding: footstalks short, coloured, and furnished with three-coloured floral leaves; blossom cylindrical and flesh-coloured; segments of the border of a pale green, and upright; leaves by threes, linear, and blunt; stem low, with numerous branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCES.
1. A chive, magnified. 2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 3. Seed-bud magnified.
