Volume 3 — ERICA pellucida.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis; floribus tubulato-ventricosis, pilosis, costatis, pellucidis, albis; foliis quaternis, aculeatis; caulibus gracilibus, hirsutis, ramosissimis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis gracilis, sesquipedalis, hirsutus; rami et ramuli numerosi, hirsuti, flexuosi.
Folia quaterna, lanceolata, lucida, aculeata, subtus sulco exarata; petiolis adpressis.
Flores in ramulis terminales, plerumque quaterni, cernui; pedunculi longi, glandulosi, bracteis tribus lanceolatis glandulosis.
Calyx tetraphyllum; foliolis lanceolatis, canaliculatis, glandulosis.
Corolla tubulato-ventricosa, pilosa, costata, alba, et pellucida; laciniis semi-orbicularibus, sub-erectis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Novembris in Junium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Pagina inferior Folii lente aucta. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina diducta, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers of an inflated tubular form, hairy, ribbed, and of a transparent white; leaves by fours, prickly; stem slender, harshly haired, and much branched.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem slender, a foot and a half high, and harshly haired; the small and larger branches are numerous, hairy, and flexuose.
Leaves by fours, lance-shaped, shining, prickly, and deeply furrowed beneath; footstalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers terminate the small branches, mostly by fours, and nodding; footstalks long, glandular, and furnished with three lance-shaped glandular floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, channelled, and glandular.
Blossom of an inflated tubular form, hairy, ribbed, white, and transparent; the segments of the border are half round, and nearly upright.
Chives. Eight capillary threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from November till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives detached, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
