ERICA Linnæa superba.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores ramulos terminant, racemum formantes longum et densissimum. Corolla clavata, uncialis, pilosa, ore alba, ad basin purpurea: laciniis obtusis, erecto-patentibus. Folia quaterna, linearia, villosa, adscendentia. Caulis sesquipedalis, fruticosus, erectus. Ramuli numerosi, breves, pilosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches, making a long close bunch. Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, white at the mouth, and purple towards the base: segments of the border obtuse, between erect and spreading. Leaves by fours, linear, villose, and ascending. Stem a foot and a half high, shrubby, and upright. The smaller branches are numerous, short, and hairy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom during the Summer months.
REFERENCE.
1. Empalement. 2. A chive, tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified.
