From L. C. Wedgwood   [22 September 1866]¹

Dear Uncle Charles

This is what the Bot. Mag. says about Erica Massoni: “—the branches are long and upright, covered closely with numerous hoary leaves, nearly cylindrical. Most of these terminate in large umbels of flowers, which continue a long while in bloom and are so extremely viscous, that scarsely a winged insect can settle on them and escape with its life; the formidable wasp sometimes becomes its victim as we had once an opportunity of seeing.”²

From the plate there seem to be longish hairs about the calyx but he says nothing about them.³