ERICA ruber calyx.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores ramulos terminant, plerumque quaterni, patentes. Calyx et pedunculus rubri. Corolla mætulæformis, imprimis alba, denique rosacea: oris laciniis erectis. Folia quaterna, linearia, erecto-patentia, obtusa, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis. Rami numerosi, flexuosi, filiformes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches, mostly by fours, spreading out. Empalement and footstalk red. Blossom skittle-pin-shaped, white at first, and then dying off a rose colour: segments of the border upright. Leaves by fours, linear, between erect and spreading, blunt-ended and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot high. Branches numerous, flexuose, and thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom early in Spring, and again in Summer.
REFERENCE.
1. Empalement. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
