ERICA Eriocephala.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis, exsertis; corolla urceolata, alba, calyce lanato vestita; floribus capitatis, lanatis, numerosis; foliis ternis, linearibus, pilosis, obtusis, erectis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus filiformis, spithamæus; rami et ramuli divaricati, filiformes, pilosi, numerosissimi.
Folia terna, linearia, pilosa, obtusa, erecta, parum incurvata, petiolis brevissimis adpressis.
Flores in ramulorum apice umbellati seu capitati, copiosi; pedunculi capillares, longitudine corollarum, colorati, bractæis tribus pilosis instructi.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, concavis, lanugine albicante densissimè obsitis.
Corolla urceolata, alba, tenuissime alba-lanata, foliolis calycis vestita; laciniis obtusis, erectis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ.
Pistillum. Germen globosum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, longissimè exsertus. Stigma capitatum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a Maio in Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium, lente auctum. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Flos, magnitudine naturali. 4. Stamina, et Pistillum. 5. Stamen unum, lente auctum. 6. Pistillum, Stigma auctum. 7. Germen, lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips, without the blossom, which is pitcher-shaped, white and covered by a woolly cup; flowers grow in heads, woolly and numerous; leaves grow by threes, linear, hairy, blunt, and upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, thread-shaped, a span high; the larger and smaller branches grow straddling and thread-shaped, hairy and very numerous.
Leaves grow by threes, linear, hairy, blunt, upright, a little incurved, with very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow at the end of the small branches in umbels or heads, very numerous; fruit-stalks hair-like, the length of the blossoms, coloured, having three hairy floral-leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets lance-shaped, concave, being thickly covered with whitish wool.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, slightly covered with white wool, cloathed with the leaflets of the cup; segments blunt, upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud globular, furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, very far without the blossom. Summit headed.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May, till August.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf, magnified. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. A flower, natural size. 4. The Chives, and Pointal. 5. One Chive, magnified. 6. The Pointal, Summit magnified. 7. The Seed-bud, magnified.
