ERICA Linnaea superbä.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA antheris muticis, inclusia: floribus pilo- i
sis, pellucidis : foliis quaternis : caule erecto,
fru ticoso.
DESCRII'TIO.
CAULIS bipedalis, frtiticosus, crectus : ramulia
numerosis, brevibus. pilosis.
FOLIA «pialerna. linearía, villi* brevissimis, adscendenlia.
FLORES ramulos lerminant, formantes spicam
longam ; corolla chivata, leviter cun'atn, unciali,
pilosa, pellucida, ore albo infinta, ad basin
cilindrica et purpurea: laciniis erecto-patentibos
et revolutis.
GERMEN tiaraforme, sulcatum, ad basin neclariis
sjHlT.fii la iustructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Speí.
Floret per menses Mali, Junii, et Julii.
RE FEH EN TIA •
i. Folium lente auctum.
S. Calyx.
3 . Stamen, anthera una lente aucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aiicto.
5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom :
flowers hairy and transparent: leaves by fours:
stem upright, and shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem two feet high, shrubby, upright: the
smaller brnnrhes numerous, short, and hairy.
LEAVES by fours, linear, with very short
hairs, and ascending.
FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches,
forming a long spike: blossom club-shaped,
slightly curved, an inch long, hairy and transparent,
white and swelled at ttie mouth, cylindrical
and purple al the base: segments of the
border between erect, spreading, and revolt)tc.
SEED-BID turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the months of May, June, and
July
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified.
2. The Empalement.
3. A Chive, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
5. Sced-bud magnified.
This fine plant has ornamented various collections for the last five or six years. In growth it is
luxuriant, as we have frequently seen it two feet high, with numerous long flowering branches, at
Covent-Garden, amongst many of the most beautiful (if not most rare) Ericas, which are exclusively
cultivated for that well-known emporium. It may certainly be considered as one of the finest variations
of Erica Linmca, and as such its hyperbolical specific title may serve to distinguish it from
most of the varieties.