Volume 3 — ERICA pinifolia.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis senis vel octonis, linearibus, tremulis: floribus confertis, clavatis, pubescentibus, albis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus, sesquipedalis, parum ramosus: ramulis simplicibus, foliis tectis.
Folia sena vel octona, linearia, tremula, glabra, subtus sulcata, attenuata in petioles capillares.
Flores sub apices ramorum verticillatim conferti, horizontaliter siti: pedunculi colorati, bracteis tribus linearibus.
Calyx tetraphyllus: foliolis lanceolatis, adpressis.
Corolla clavata, pollicaris, albis, pilis tomentosis densissime circumsessa: oris laciniis revolutis, obsolete crenulatis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ inclusæ, muticæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, superne lanatum, album; inferne viride, ad basin glandulosum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Februarii in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Corolla lente aucta. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom: leaves by sixes or eights, linear, and tremulous: flowers crowded, club-shaped, hairy, and white.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, a foot and a half high, branching but little: the smaller branches simple, and covered with leaves.
Leaves by sixes or eights, linear, tremulous, and smooth; furrowed beneath, and tapering into hair-like footstalks.
Flowers grow near the ends of the branches in crowded whorls, and in a horizontal direction; footstalks coloured, with three linear floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved: leaflets lance-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, white, and closely beset with downy hairs: the segments of the border are rolled back, and slightly notched.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips within the blossom, and beardless.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy on the upper part, and white; greenish below, and glandular at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Blossom magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
