ERICA rugosa.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ bicornes, subexsertæ. Flores subterminales. Corolla clavata, patens, rugosa, saturate rubra: oris laciniis patentibus. Pedunculi longi. Folia irregulariter verticillata 3 vel 5, linearia, patentia, parum curvata: petiolis longis. Caulis erectus, sub-bipedalis, ramis verticillatis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned, just without the blossom. Flowers nearly terminal. Blossom club-shaped, spreading, wrinkly, and of a deep red colour: segments of the border spreading. Footstalks long. Leaves in irregular whorls of 3 to 5, linear, spreading, and slightly curved. Footstalks long. Stem upright, near two feet high. Branches in whorls.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
