Part 10

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement and blossom. 2. Flower of a yellow variety. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. The seed-bud magnified.

ERICA filamentosa.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores axillares sub apice ramorum, verticillati, numerosi. Pedunculi longissimi. Corolla tubuloso-campanulata, purpurea. Folia sena, tremulantia, linearia, tenuia. Caulis erectus, sesquipedalis. Rami simplices, verticillati.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves near the ends of the branches in whorls, and numerous. The footstalks very long. Blossom tubularly bell-shaped and purple. Leaves by sixes, tremulous, linear and slender. Stem upright, a foot and a half high. Branches simple and in whorls.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from November till April.

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement and floral leaves. 2. The chives detached, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified.

ERICA flammea.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, racemum formantes prope caulis summitatem. Corolla tubiformis, sub-pollicaris, pallide lutea; apice sub-albidâ. Folia terna, sæpe quaterna, obtusa, linearia. Caulis erectus, bipedalis. Ramuli filiformes, virgati.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminating the small branches, making a long spike near the summit of the stem. Blossom trumpet-shaped, near an inch long, of a pale yellow; the end whitish. Leaves by threes, often in fours, blunt, and linear. Stem upright, two feet high. Branches thread-shaped, and twiggy.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from October till February.

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

ERICA gelida.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Floras in ultimis ramis axillares, spicati, imbricati, dependentes. Corolla cylindrica, apice arctata, pollicaris, albicante-virescens, apice atro-virens. Folia ramulorum, subquaterna; ramorum sena, curvata, acuta, patentia. Caulis strictissimus, fruticosus, tripedalis. Rami pauci. Ramuli verticillati.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers grow near the top of the branches, close to the stem, in spikes, imbricated hanging down. Blossom cylindrical, narrowed at the top, an inch long, of a whitish green, and dark green at the end. Leaves on the small branches mostly by fours; those on the larger by sixes, curved, pointed, and spreading. Stem very upright, shrubby, three feet high. Few large branches. The small branches grow in whorls.

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