ERICA hispida.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis, subexsertis; stylo exserto; floribus axillaribus, racemosis, terminalibus; corollis subglobosis, parvulis, glabris, incarnatis; foliis quaternis, obtusis, hispidis, patentibus.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus, pedalis; rami et ramuli filiformes, erecti, rigidi, numerosi, verticillati, hispidi.
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, patentia, subtus sulcata, hispida; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis.
Flores in ramulis terminales, racemosi, sub-nutantes, incarnati; racemi pollicares usque digitales; pedunculi capillares, villosi longitudine corollæ, bracteis distantibus.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, obtusis, villosis, adpressis, brevissimis.
Corolla subglobosa; laciniis limbi erectis, parvulis, obtusis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, subexserta, brunneæ.
Pistillum. Germen turbinatum, sulcatum, pilosum ad basin glandulosum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus, staminibus longior. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret ab Augusto, in Novembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium, lente auctum. 2. Flos, magnitudine naturali. 3. Calyx, lente auctus. 4. Corolla. 5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta. 6. Pistillum, Stigma auctum. 7. Germen, lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips, without the blossom; shaft without; flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves in terminal bunches, blossoms nearly globular, small, smooth and flesh-coloured; leaves grow by fours, blunt, hairy and spreading,
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, a foot high; large and small branches are thread-shaped, upright, harsh, numerous, grow in whorls and hairy.
Leaves grow by fours, linear, blunt, spreading, furrowed beneath, hairy; foot-stalks very short, pressed to the stern.
Flowers grow at the end of the branches in bunches a little drooping and flesh-coloured; bunches from an inch to two inches in length; foot-stalks hair-like, hairy, the length of the blossom; floral leaves at a distance from the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, blunt, hairy, pressed to the blossom and very short.
Blossom nearly globular; segments of the border upright, very small, blunt.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, just without the blossom and brown.
Pointal. Seed-bud top-shaped, furrowed, hairy and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom, longer than the chives. Summit four-cornered,
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till November.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. A Flower, natural size. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Blossom. 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. 6. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 7. The Seed-bud, magnified.
