Volume 3 — ERICA vestita, lutea.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis setaceis, longis, confertis: floribus verticillatis, luteis: caule erecto.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis bipedalis, erectus: ramis simplicibus, adscendentibus.
Folia sena, septena, vel octona, erecta, aggregata, setacea: petiolis longissimis.
Flores in verticillis aggregatis, sub apicibus ramulorum: pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus instructis.
Calyx tetraphyllus: foliolis lanceolatis, adpressis.
Corolla cylindrica, uncialis, lutea, leviter costata: oris laciniis subrotundis, æqualibus, patentibus.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, villosum, basi poris melliferis instructum. Stylus filiformis, sub-inclusus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx. 2. Stamina à Pistillo diducta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: leaves bristle-shaped, long, and crowded: flowers grow in whorls, of a yellow colour: stem upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem two feet high, upright, with simple ascending branches.
Leaves in sixes, sevens, or eights, erect, crowded, and bristle-shaped: footstalks very long.
Flowers grow in crowded whorls near the ends of the branches: footstalks short, and furnished with three floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved: leaflets lance-shaped, and pressed to the cup.
Blossom cylindrical, an inch long, yellow, and slightly ribbed: segments of the border nearly round, equal, and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, villose, and furnished with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives detached from the Pointal. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified.
