ERICA turbinata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ ad basin bicornes, exsertæ. Flores ramulos terminant, terni, cernui. Pedunculi nulli. Calyx duplex. Corolla turbinata, incarnata; laciniis erectis. Folia terna, obtusa, brevia, adscendentia. Caulis debilis. Rami et ramuli virgati, flexuosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, without the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches, by threes, nodding. Footstalks none. Empalement double. Blossom top-shaped, and flesh-coloured: segments upright. Leaves by threes, obtuse, short, and ascending. Stem weak. The small and larger branches twiggy and flexuose.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf. 2. Empalement, magnified. 3. A blossom. 4. A chive, magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud, magnified.
