Part 14

ERICA obliqua.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ ad basin bicornutæ, inclusæ. Flores numerosi, ovati, purpurei, ad apices ramorum umbellati; pedunculis flore triplo longioribus, coloratis, viscidis. Folia sparsa, obliqua, truncata; petiolis tenuissimis. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis. Rami simplices, longi, filiformes.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom. Flowers numerous, egg-shaped, purple, growing in umbels at the ends of the branches. Foot-stalks thrice the length of the flowers, coloured and clammy. Leaves obliquely scattered, seeming cut off at the ends, and with very slender foot-stalks. Stem shrubby, a foot high. The branches simple, long, and thread-shaped.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from August till December.

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement magnified. 2. The seed-bud, chives and pointal. 3. A chive magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal magnified.

ERICA physodes.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Corolla ovata, inflata, glabra, viscosa, crystallina, alba, magnitudine pisi; laciniis acuminatis erectis. Folia quaterna, obtusa, margine glandulosa, viscosa, patentia. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus, ramulosus.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips crested, within the blossoms, which are egg-shaped, swelled out, smooth, clammy, like crystal, and white, the size of a pea; segments of the border tapering and upright. Leaves by fours, are blunt, the edges glandular, clammy, and spreading. Stem shrubby, grows two feet high, is upright, and has numerous little branches.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from February till July.

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. A chive magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal magnified.

ERICA pinea.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Corolla tubuloso-clavata, sub-albida. Flores in medio ramorum verticillati, horizontales, pollicares. Folia sena, linearia, glabra, patentia, longissima. Caulis erectus, bipedalis, robustus. Rami verticillati, erecto-patentes.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips beardless, within the blossom, which is tubularly club-shaped, and nearly white. Flowers grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, horizontal, an inch in length. Leaves by sixes, linear, smooth, spreading outward, very long. Stem upright, two feet high, very stout. Branches in whorls, spreading, upright.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from August till December.