Volume 3 — ERICA glutinosa minor.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis, corollis glutinosissimis, verticillatis, horizontalibus, pallide viridibus, semi-uncialibus, et costatis. Folia sena.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus, bipedalis. Rami simplices, longi, verticillati.
Folia sena, linearia acuminata, glabra, læviter sulcata, patentia.
Flores sub apicibus ramorum conferti, verticillato-horizontales. Pedunculi breves, bracteis tribus calyci adpressis.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, viscosis, adpressis.
Corolla cylindrica, semi-uncialis, pallide viridis, glutinosissima, nitida et costata, oris laciniis parum reflexis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum et superne sericeum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Novembri ad Aprilem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossoms, which are extremely clammy, in whorls, horizontal, and of a pale green, half an inch long, and ribbed. Leaves by sixes.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, two feet high. The branches are simple, long, and whorled.
Leaves grow by sixes, are linear-pointed and smooth, slightly furrowed, and spreading.
Flowers grow near the ends of the branches, pressed together in horizontal whorls. The footstalks are short, having three floral leaves pressed to the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are lance-shaped, clammy, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom cylindrical, half an inch long, of a pale green, very clammy, shining and ribbed, the segments of the mouth slightly reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, furrowed and silky at the upper part. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of November till April.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement magnified. 2. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. 3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit magnified. 4. The Seed-bud magnified.
