Volume 3 — ERICA mucronata.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo exerto. Flores ramulos terminant. Corolla campanulata, incarnata: foliis ternis, mucronatis. Caulis fruticosus, ramosus.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis sesquipedalis, fruticosus. Rami et ramuli numerosi, erecti, patentes vel cernui.
Folia terna, trigona, glabra, erecto-patentia, apice mucronato incurvato.
Flores ramos terminant, et terni vel seni sunt et cernui. Pedunculi longi, colorati: bracteis tribus mucronatis.
Calyx tetraphyllus: foliolis ad basin ovatis, apice mucronato, coloratis, adpressis.
Corolla campanulata, incarnata: oris laciniis æqualibus, erecto-patentibus.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis, exertus. Stigma concavum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Maio in Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
1. Corolla. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Stamen unicum lente auctum. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft without. Flowers terminate the small branches. Blossom bell-shaped, and flesh-coloured. Leaves by threes, mucronated at the end. Stem shrubby and branching.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot and a half high, and shrubby. The large and small branches are numerous, erect, spreading or nodding.
Leaves by threes, three-sided, smooth, between erect and spreading, with a mucronated point turned inward.
Flowers terminate the branches, and are from 3 to 6, nodding. Footstalks long, coloured, with three mucronated floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved. The leaflets are ovate at the base, with a mucronated point, coloured, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom bell-shaped, flesh-coloured: the segments of the border are equal, and between erect and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit hollow.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till August.
REFERENCE.
1. A Blossom. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. A Chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified.
