ERICA mollis.
CHARACTER SPECIFICL'S.
ERICA, anthcrisaristatis, iuclusis: floribus in umbellis
axillaribus, globosis, pilosis: foliis quaternis:
caule fruticoso.
DESCRIPTION
CAULIS pcdalis, fruticosus, erectus: ramulis adsccndentibus.
FOLIA qualerna, linearía, obtusa, pilosa, patcntia,
supra plana, subtus sulcata.
FLORES in umbeilis, axillares: corolla globosa,
purpurea, pilosa: laciniis Totundatis, patentibus,
KCjualibui.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Julio in Septembrem.
REFERIÍNT1A.
1. Folium lente auctum.
2 . Calyx lente auctus.
3. Antbera una lente aueta.
4. Germen et Pistíllum, sligmate lente anclo.
5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, witli bearded tips, within the blossom:
flowers grow in umbels from the axilla; of the
leaves, globular, and hairy : leaves by fours: stem
shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot high, shrubby and upright: branches
ascending.
LEAVES by fours, linear, obtuse, hairy, and
spreading, flat on their upper surface and furrowed
beneath.
FLOWERS grow in umbels from the axilla: of
the leaves: blossom globular, purple, and hairy :
segments of the border rounded, spreading, and
equal.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
| Flowers from the month of July till September.
R E F E R E N C E .
1. A Leaf magnified.
2 . The Empalement magnified.
3. One Chive magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.
THE Erica mollis is a compact little shrub, with lively purple flowers: both flowers a,
covered with short hairs, which give it a soft appearance, although to the touch the ba
hispid than downy. Our figure is from a plant at Mr. Lee's Nursery.