ERICA droseroides, minor.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores in umbellis terminalibus, cernui. Corolla urceolata, læte purpurea, costata, viscosa: ore obliquo, arctato, profunde sanguineo. Pedunculi longissimi, pilis glandulosis tecti. Folia terna, linearia, obtusa, marginibus pilis glandulosis micantibus. Caulis spithamæus, fruticosus: ramis filiformibus, sparsis, erectis, patentibus, virgatis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers grow in terminal umbels, nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, of a bright purple colour, ribbed, and clammy: the mouth is oblique, narrowed, and of a deep blood colour. Foot-stalks very long, and covered with glandular hairs. Leaves ternate, linear, blunt, bordered with glandulous shining hairs. Stem a span high, and shrubby: branches long, scattered, erect, spreading, and twiggy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified. 2. Empalement magnified. 3. A Chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
