ERICA Linnæoides.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis, corollis sub-cylindricis, grossis, villosis; floribus sub-sessilibus, ramulos terminantibus; foliis quaternis, linearibus, pilosis, consertis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, et patens. Ramuli numerosi, pilosi.
Folia quaterna, linearia, pilosa, patentia, et subtus sulcata, petiolis brevissimis adpressis.
Flores in ramulis terminales, sub-quaterni, horizontaliter; pedunculis fere nullis; bracteis adpressis.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, pilosis, adpressis.
Corolla sub-cylindracea, grossa, et pilosa, ad basin purpurea, et superne alba; laciniis ovatis, patentibus.
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, pilosum. Stylus filiformis, sub-exertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Januarii ad Maium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Flos, magnitudine naturali, 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto, 6. Germen lente auctum,
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom. Blossoms nearly cylindrical, swelled, and hairy. Flowers almost without foot-stalks, terminating the small branches. Leaves grow by fours, are linear, hairy, and crowded together.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, and spreading. The smaller branches are numerous and hairy.
Leaves by fours, linear, hairy, spreading, and furrowed beneath, with very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers terminate the smaller branches mostly by fours in a horizontal direction. Scarcely any foot-stalks. Floral leaves pressed to the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, hairy, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom nearly cylindrical, swelled, and hairy, purple at the base, and white at the upper part; the segments are ovate, and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of January till May,
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified. 2. A Flower, natural size. 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified, 6. The Seed-bud magnified.
