Volume 3 — ERICA tenuiflora.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis; corollis quaternis, tenuissimis, luteis. Folia terna et quaterna, linearia.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, debilis. Rami et ramuli filiformes, virgati.
Folia terna et quaterna, linearia; petiolis longis adpressis.
Flores in ultimis ramulis quaterni, patentes; pedunculis brevissimis.
Calyx. Perianthium duplex; exterius triphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis; interius tetraphyllum, foliolis longioribus.
Corolla tubæformis, tenuissima, lutea; oris laciniis acuminatis, patentibus.
Stamina. Filamenta octo; antheris muticis, inclusis.
Pistillum. Germen oblongum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Aprili ad Junium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ diductâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossoms; which grow by fours, are very slender, and yellow. Leaves by threes and fours, and linear.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a foot high, weak. The large and small branches are thread-shaped, and twiggy.
Leaves by threes and fours, linear, with long foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow by fours at the ends of the small branches, and spreading; with very short foot-stalks.
Empalement. Cup double; the outer three-leaved, and leaflets lance-shaped; the inner one four-leaved, and longer than the outer.
Blossom trumpet-shaped, very slender, and yellow; segments of the border sharp-pointed and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud of an oblong form. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Blossom. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip detached and magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
