ERICA pinea.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris muticis, inclufis; corollis tubulofo
clavatis, fub-albidis; floribus axillaribus,
verticillatis, pollicaribus; foliis, fub-fenis, lincaribusj
glabris, rigidis, longis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULiserectus, p l u s q u a i i i b i p c d a l i s , robuftus;
rami verticillati, erecto-patentes, raro ramulofi,
cauli timiles.
FOLIA fena, linearía, glabra, pa ten tía, Iongiflima,
pcliolis adpreflis.
FLORES in medio ramorum verticillati, horizontales,
pollicarcs ; pedunculi breviflinii, bractcis
tribus infiructi.
CALYX. Pcriantbium tetraphjllum, foliolis
fubulatis, a d balín latioribus, glabris, adpreitis.
COBOLLA tubulofo-clavata, obtufa, fub-albida ;
laciniis reñexis.
STAMINA. Filamcnta o e t o capillaria, corolla
breviora. Antheras mutic.as, inclufa;.
PISTILLUM. Germen turbmatum, tulcatum;
apice pilolum, ad bafin glandulofiim. Stylus
fihfonnis, exfertus. Stigma pcltatum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonze Spei.
Floret a menu Augiifti, in Deccmbrcm.
REFERENT!A
] . Folium, lente auctum.
1 . Calyx et Corolla.
3 . Calyx, auctus.
4. Stamina, et Piftillum.
5. Stamina a P i l l i l l o diducra, antbera una
lente aucta.
6. P i l î i l l u m , liigma auctum.
7- Germen, auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEA TH with bcardlefs tips, within the blolToms,
w h i c h arc tubularly club-ihapcd, and nearly
white; flowers g r ow from the lower part of the
leaves clofe to the item in whorls, are an inch
l o n g ; leaves grow moftly by fixes, arc linear
and linooth, ftiff, and long.
DESCRI PTION.
STEM upright, grows more than two feet
h i g h and very ltout; the branches grow in
whorls, fpreading and upright, fcldom breaki
n g into (mailer branches, and like the Item.
LEAVES grow by fixes, are linear, fmooth,
fpread outward, and very long, the foot-ftalks
preffed to the flcm.
FLOWERS grow in whorls about the middle
of the branches, horizontal, and an inch in
l e n g t h ; the foot-ftalks very fhort, with three
floral leaves on them.
EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, the leaflets
are awd-lhaped, broadeft at the bafe, linooth,
and preffed to the bloftbm.
BLOSSOM tubularly club-fhaped, blunt ended,
and nearly w h i t e ; the fegmcnts of the border arc
reflexed.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads fhortcr than
the bloflbm. Tips bcardlefs and within the
bloflbm.
POINIAL. Seed-bud turban-lhapcd and furr
o w e d ; hairy on the upper part, and glandular
at the bafe. Shaft th read-fhaped, and without
the bloflbm. Summit fhield-fhapcd.
Native o f the Cape o f G o o d Hope.
Flowers from Augufl, till December
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf, magnified.
1 . The Empalcmeni, and Bloflbm.
3 . T h e Kmpalcment, magnified.
A . The Chives, and Poinial, magnified.
5. T h e Chives detached from the Pointal.
a T i p magnified.
6 . T h e Pointal, the Summit magnified.
7 . The Seed-bud, magnified.