ERICA foliácea.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA aiitheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus ramulos
terminantibus, quaternis ; foliis sparsis :
caule erecto : ramis et ramnlis foliis teclis.
DESCRIPTION
CAULIS pedalis, fruticosus : ramis longis, atiscendentîbus
: ramulis pcrbrevibus.
FOLIA sparsa, numerosa, adscendentia, linearía,
obtusa.
FLORES ramulos terminant, quaterui, subsessiles
: eorolla subcylindracea, curvata, ceriiuopatente,
subpollicari, flava, et transparente.
Habitat ad Caput Bonte Spei.
Floret a mcnse Angustí in Octobrem.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with bearded tips within the blossom:
flowers terminate the smaller branches by fours:
leaves scattered : stem upright: the large and
smaller branches covered with leaves.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot high, shrubby : the larger
branches long and ascending : the smaller ones
very short.
LEAVES scattered, numerous, ascending, linear,
and obtuse.
FLOWERS grow from the ends of the smaller
branches by fours, and nearly sessile; blossom
nearly cylindrical, curved, between spreading
aud nodding, nearly an inch long, yellow, and
transparent.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of August till October.
REFERENTIA.
I. Calyx.
"2. Stamen iimim lente auctum.
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aiicto.
4. Germen lenle auctum.
REFERENCE.
1. The Enipalement.
2. A Chive magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
4. Seed-bod magnified.
Tais Erica in its flower resembles the E. depressa ; and to distinguish it from that low bushy shrub,
the specific title of depressa ericla was given to it, by which it is generally known in most collections
;—but as a depressed upright appears to us incongruous, we have adopted that of foliacca,
an unoccupied specific by which the plant may be discriminated cither in or out of bloom.
Our fisure was made from the cnllcction of Mr. Lee, in the summer of 183».