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Lmn, Gen, PL 192. Juss, 160. Gcertn. L 63.
Calyx tetrapliyllus. Corolla quadrifida, persistens. Stamina receptaculo
inserta. Antherce ante anthesin per foramina duo lateralia connexag.
Capsula supera, quadrilocularis, polysperma ; dissepimentis e medio valvularum.
Antheris aristatù.
TABULA 351.
ERICA ARBOREA.
ERICA antheris aristatis, corollà campaniilatà, Üoribus terminalibus, foliis terois linearibus
glabris, rainis tomentosis.
E. arborea. Linn. Sp. PL 502. Willden. Sp. PL v. 366. Dnjand, in Ait. Hort, Kew,
ecL 2. 402. Thunh. Eric. n. 63.
E. N. 1014. HalL Hist. v. 1. 432.
E. maxima alba. Baii/i. Pin. 485. Town. Inst. 602.
E. coris folio prima. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 41.
E. major llore albo, prima Clusii. Loh. le. v. 2. 214.
E. n. 2. Ger, Em. 1380; quoad icouem.
Vm ArgoL hodic.
in Arcbipelagi iusiilis ireqiiens ; nec non in agro Argolico. i?.
Ccudis erecLus, trlpetlalis—sexpedalis, vcl allior, ramosissimus ; ramis sparsis, erectis, foliosis,
muUiiloris, undique tomeutoso-incanis, ligno duro; cortice demiim deciduo. Folia
saspiùs terna, ([uandotiue ([uatcrna, vel sparsa ; omnia erecto-patentia, breviùs petiolata,
linearia, obLusa, revoluta, glabra, sempervirentia. Petioli breves, dilatati,
ciliati. Stipidce nulkü. Flores in apicibus ramvdorum, numerosi, pedunculati, cernui,
Bivei, suaveolentes, parvi. Pedunculi simplices, filiformes, albi, ^racifeos subulatEe,
allia3, opposite^, ad basin, ut et medium versus, pedunculorunt. Cahjx albus, qua-
(Iriparlitus, acutus, erectus, persistans, corollà triplo brevior. Corolla sesquilinearis.
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