ERICA veñita alba.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
E A I C A , ANTHERIS MUTICIS, FUB-INCLUFIS; FOLIA FENA,
TRCMULCNTA, LINEARÍA, CONFERÍA, ATTENUATA IN PETIOLOS
CAPILIARES; FLORIBUS CALVAÜS, ALBIDIS.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS TRIPEDALIS, LAXUS ERECTUS, BAIL FIMPLICIFLIMUS,
RAMIS FIMPLIEIBUS ADLCCNDENTIBUS.
FOLIA FENA, CONFERTA, GLABRA, LINEARÍA, TREMULENTA,
FUBTUS FULCATA, ATTENUATA IN PETIOLIS CAPILIARES,
FEMIUNGUICULARCS.
FLORES IN RARAULIS VERTICILLATI, EREETO-PATENTI;
PEDUNEULIS BREVIBUS, BRACTEIS TRIBUS INFTRUETIS.
CALYX. FERIANLHIUM TETRAPHYLLUM, FOLIOBS
FUBULATIS, ADPREFFIS, GLABRIS, VIFCOLIS.
COROLLA, CLAVATA, POLLICARIA, ALBA, PUBEFEENTIA;
ORIS LACINIIS PATENTIBUS.
STAMINA. FILAMENTA OEFO CAPILLARIA; ANTHERA;
MUTICIC, FUBINCLUFE.
PíSTiLLUM. GERMEN TURBINATNM, LUMRAA P I -
LIS LONGIS CORONATUM. STYLUS FILIFORMIS, EXFERTUS.
STIGMA TETRAGONUM.
HABITAT AD CAPUT BONCE SPEI.
FLORET A MENÜ JULII, IN DECEMBREM.
REFERENTIA.
1. CALYX, ET COROLLA.
2. CALYX LENTE AUETUS.
3 . STAMINA, ET PILTILLUM.
4. STAMINA A PIFTILLO DIDUETA; ANTHERA UNA
LENTE AUEFA.
5. STYLUS, ET STIGMA, LENTE AUÍTA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, WITH BEARDLEFS TIPS, JUIT WITHIN THE BLOFFOMS;
LEAVES GROW BY FIXES, ARE TREMULOUS, LINEAR,
AND CROWDED TOGETHER, TAPERING INTO HAIRLIKE
FOOT-FLALKS; THE FLOWERS ARE CLUB-IHAPED, AND
WHITE.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM GROWS THREE FEET HIGH, LOOFE AND UPRIGHT,
AMPLE AT THE BALE, WITH FIMPLE, ATTENDING
BRANCHES.
LEAVES GROW BY FIXES, CROWDED TOGETHER,
FMOOTH, LINEAR, TREMULOUS, FURROWED UNDERNEATH,
AND TAPERING INTO HAIR-LIKE FOOT-FLALKS, A QUARTER
OF AN INCH IN LENGTH.
FLOWERS GROW IN WHORLS UPON THE FINALLER
BRANCHES, UPRIGHT, AND FPREADING; WITH FHORT
FOOT-FLALKS, HAVING THREE FLORAL LEAVES.
EMPALEMENT. CUP FOUR-LEAVED, WHICH ARE
AWL-LHAPEIL, PREFFED TO THE BLOFLBM, FMOOTH, AND
CLAMMY.
BLOSSOM, CLUB-IHAPED, AN INCH LONG, WHITE
AND DOWNY, THE FIGMENTS OF THE MOUTH ARC FPREAD
OUTWARD.
CHIVES. EIGHT HAIR-LIKE THREADS; TIPS BEARDLEFS,
AND JUFT WITHIN THE BLOFLBM.
POINTAL. SEED-VELTEL TURBAN-FHAPED, THE TOP
BEING CROWNED WITH LONG HAIRS. SHAFT IHREADFHAPED,
AND WITHOUT THE BLOFLBM. SUMMIT FOURCORNERED.
NATIVE OF THE C A P E OF G O O D H O P E.
FLOWERS FROM JULY, TILL DECEMBER.
REFERENCE.
1 . T H E EMPALEMENT, AND BLOFLBM.
2. THE EMPALEMENT MAGNIFIED.
3 . T H E CHIVES, AND POINTAL.
4. T H E CHIVES DETACHED FROM THE POINTAL; ONE
LIP MAGNIFIED.
5. T H E SHAFT, AND ITS S U M M I T , MAGNIFIED.