ERICA glomerata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores ramos terminant in capitibus confertis. Corolla urceolata, incarnata. Calyx magnus, coloratus. Pedunculi brevissimi. Folia ternata, subulata, glabra, adpressa. Frutex pygmæus, caule robusto, ramis et ramulis filiformibus, flexuosis.
DESCRIPTION.
Heath with beardless tips, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in crowded heads. Blossom pitcher-shaped and flesh-coloured. The cup is large and coloured. Footstalks very short. Leaves by threes, awl-shaped, smooth, and pressed to the branches. A dwarf shrub with a stout stem, the large and smaller branches thread shaped and flexuose.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCE.
1. A flower. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The involucrum.
