ERICA viridis.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis, corollis confertim verticillatis cylindricis viscosis asperiusculis, foliis senis expansis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, ramis plerumque simplicibus, erectis, et rigidis.
Folia sena, linearia, obtusiuscula, expansa, vel demum declinata.
Flores infra apices ramorum, confertim verticillati ex axillis foliorum, breviter pedunculati, horizontales.
Calyx tetraphyllus, viscosus, foliolis subulatis, adpressis, bracteis tribus itidem adpressis.
Corolla cylindrica, uncialis et ultra, saturate viridis, viscosa, asperiuscula, laciniis revolutis.
Stamina octo, capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, pubescens; stylus filiformis; stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret Maio ad Septembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx, et Bracteæ adpressæ. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina diducta, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 5. Pistillum stigmate diducto lenteque aucto. 6. Germen pubescens et album, lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, blossoms crowdedly-whorled cylindric clammy roughish, and leaves in sixes and expanded.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, with the branches chiefly simple, erect, and rigid.
Leaves in sixes, linear, obtusely pointed, expanded, or finally bent downwards.
Flowers springing from near the ends of the branches, crowdedly whorled from the bosoms of the leaves, shortly peduncled, and horizontal.
Empalement four-leaved, clammy, with awl-shaped leaflets, pressed to the blossom, with three floral leaves pressed to them.
Blossom cylindrical, an inch long or upwards, deep green, clammy, and roughish, with segments rolled back.
Chives eight, hair-like; tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy: shaft thread-shaped; summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till September.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Calyx and close pressed floral Leaves. 3. The Blossom. 4. The Chives detached, with one tip magnified. 5. The Pointal, with the summit detached and magnified. 6. The downy and white Seed-bud, magnified.
