ERICA Solandroides.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ aristatæ, sub-exertæ. Flores in ramis terminales, capitatim aggregati, cernui. Corolla subcylindracea, parva, albens. Folia plerumque quaterna, obtusa, linearia, pilosa, recta, adscendentia: seniora patentia. Caulis sesquipedalis: ramis longis, simplicibus, erectis, vel flexuosis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips bearded, and just without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in crowded heads, nodding. Blossom nearly cylindrical, small, and of a whitish colour. Leaves mostly by fours, obtuse, linear, hairy, straight, and ascending: the older ones spreading. Stem a foot and half high: the branches are long, simple, upright or flexuose.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till July.
REFERENCE.
1. Empalement magnified. 2. A flower. 3. A chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
