ERICA viridiflora.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ minute bicornutæ, subexsertæ. Flores terni, in apicibus ramulorum, dependentes. Pedunculi nulli. Perianthium duplex, exteriori triphyllo. Corolla viridis, viscosa, mætulæflora: laciniis limbi erectis. Folia terna, glabra, subtrigona, curvata, acuta. Caulis humilis, fruticosus. Ramuli plerumque terni.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips minutely two-horned, just without the blossom. Flowers grow by threes, at the ends of the smaller branches, hanging down. Footstalks none. Cup double, the outer one three-leaved. Blossom green, clammy and skittle-shaped: segments of the border upright. Leaves by threes, smooth, nearly three-sided, curved and pointed. Stem low and shrubby. Smaller branches mostly by threes.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. Empalement. 2. A chive, tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
