ERICA translucens.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, subinclusæ. Flores ramos terminant, plerumque terni, adscendentes, et patentes. Corolla cylindracea, rosacea, tomentosa, pellucida: laciniis æqualibus, revolutis. Folia terna et quaterna, linearia, brevia, læviter incurvata, trigona, acuta, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis. Rami numerosi, flexuosi, virgati, filiformes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches, mostly by threes, ascending, and spreading. Blossom cylindrical, rose-coloured, downy, and pellucid: segments of the border equal, and rolled back. Leaves by threes and fours, linear and short, slightly incurved, three-sided, pointed, and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high. Branches numerous, flexuose, twiggy, and thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement. 2. A chive, tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
