ERICA serpyllifolia.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ: stylo exserto: stigmate magno. Flores terni vel seni, ramos terminantes. Corolla parva, campanulata, pallide carnosa. Folia terna, cordata, patentia, supra subplana, setis minutis instructa, subtus glauca; marginibus revolutis. Caulis subpedalis, tenuis. Rami et ramuli filiformes, numerosi, flexuosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom; shaft without; summit large. Flowers grow by threes or sixes, terminating the branches. Blossom small, bell-shaped, and of a pale flesh-colour. Leaves by threes, heartshaped and spreading, nearly flat on their upper surface, and furnished with minute setæ or bristles beneath, glaucous, with the edges rolled back. Stem nearly a foot high, and slender. The large and smaller branches thread-shaped, numerous, and slender.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till November.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf. 2. The same shown from beneath, magnified. 3. The empalement. 4. A blossom. 5. Chives and pointal, magnified. 6. Seed-bud, magnified.
