Part 17

Tips crested, within the blossom, shaft included. Flowers globular, purple, nodding, and smooth. Flowers grow by fours, at the ends of the small branches. Cup reflexed. Leaves by fours, linear, fringed and flaccid. Stem weak, a foot and a half high. Branches numerous and twiggy.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from June till August.

REFERENCE.

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

ERICA radiata.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ, stylo exserto. Flores in ramulorum apice verticillati, horizontaliter siti. Corolla sub-cylindracea, oris laciniis revolutis. Folia quaterna, linearia, patentia. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, subpedalis, ramosus. Rami sub-simplices.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips beardless, within the blossom, shaft without. Flowers grow in whorls at the ends of the small branches, standing horizontally. Blossoms almost cylinder-shaped, the segments of the mouth rolled back. Leaves by fours, linear and spreading. Stem shrubby, upright, near a foot high, and branching. The branches nearly simple.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from August till November.

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

ERICA rubens.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores terminales, in umbellis nutantibus vel cernuis 3-8-floris. Pedunculi longiusculi. Corolla late ovata, rubro-purpurea. Folia quaterna, erecta, linearia, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, sub-erectus, ramis patentibus, vel subinde pendulis.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers terminal, in nodding or cernuous umbels of from 3 to 8 flowers. The peduncles longish. Blossom broad egg-shaped, and of a red purple. Leaves by fours, upright, linear, smooth. Stem shrubby, nearly upright. Branches spreading, or sometimes nodding.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from June till September.

REFERENCE.

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

ERICA serratifolia.

DESCRIPTIO.