Volume 3 — ERICA tenuiflora, alba.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus quaternis, tenuissimis, albis: foliis quaternis, linearibus, glabris: caulis gracilis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, debilis, pedalis et ultra: rami et ramuli filiformes, virgati.
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glabra, erecto-patentia.
Flores ad apices ramulorum quaterni: pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus subulatis instructis.
Calyx tetraphyllus: foliolis luteolo-virentibus, lanceolatis, adpressis.
Corolla tubæformis, tenuissima: oris laciniis acuminatis, patentibus, albicantibus: tubo pellucido.
Stamina. Filamenta octo; antheris muticis, inclusis.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Decembrem.
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: flowers grow by fours, slender, and white: leaves by fours, linear, and smooth: stem slender.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, weak, a foot or more high: the small and large branches are thread-shaped, and twiggy.
Leaves by fours, linear, blunt, smooth, erect, and spreading.
Flowers grow by fours at the ends of the small branches: footstalks short, and furnished with three awl-shaped floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved: leaflets of a yellowish green, lance-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom trumpet-shaped, and very slender; the segments of the border are sharp-pointed, spreading, and very white; the tube is of a transparent white.
Chives. Eight hair-like 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 July till December.
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.
