ERICA flexuofa.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris muticis, exfertis, rubris; corollis
minuü's, albidis, fub-campanulatis; bractae albae,
calyciformes j rami flexuoli; folüs ternis.
D E S C R I P T I O .
Ga u l i s frutícus, pedalis vel paulo ultra, inferne
nudus, ereetus; rami ficxuoíi,virgati; ramuli brcviffimi,
fub-tcrni.
FOLIA terna, linearía, glabra, acuta, fubtus
fulcata; pctiolis adpreflis.
F l o r i - in ultimis ramulis terminales, fubterni;
peduneuli albo-tomentoli, bracfeas albida,
juxta batin calycis iitse.
Ca l y x . Perianthium tctraphyllum, foliolis
ovads, acuminatis, concavis, albidis, adpreflis.
COROLLA minuta, fub-campanulata, albida,
glabra; oris laciniis adpreflis.
St a m i n a . Filaments octo capillaria apice
incurvata. Anthcne muticae, exferue, rubra:.
PISTILLUM. Germen fub-rotundum, fulcatum.
Stylus filiformis, exfertus. Stigma peltatum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a menfi Aprili, in Julium.
REFERENT1A.
l. Calyx, et Corolla.
1. Corolla.
3. Calyx lente auetus.
4. Stamina, et Pitiillum.
5. Stamina a l'illillo diducta; antliera una
lente aueta.
Ö. Germen, Stylus, et Stigma, lente aueta.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardlefs tips, red, and without
the bloflbms, which are fmall, white, almoll bellfhaped;
the floral leaves are white, and referable
die cup; the branches grow zig-zag; the leaves
grow by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM ihrubby, grows rather more than a foot
high, naked beneath, and upright; the branches
grow zig-zagged, and twiggy; the fmaller branches
arc ihort, and grow mollly by threes.
The LEAVES grow by threes, are linear and
fmooth, fharp, furrowed underneath; the footflalks
prefled to the item.
T I i c F l o w e u s terminate the ends of the fmaller
branches, moftly by threes; the foot-ftalks arc of
a downy white; the floral leaves are white, and
placed clofe to the cup.
Em p a l e m e n t . Cup four-leaved, which are
egg-fhaped, pointed, concave, white, and prefled
to the bloflbm.
Bl o s s om fmall, nearly bcll-fhaped, white, and
fmooth; the fegments of the mouth arc prefled
to the threads.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, bent inwards
at the end. Tips are red, beardlefs, and without
the bloflbm.
P o i n t A l . Seed-veffel nearly round, and furrowed.
Shaft time ad-fh aped, and without the
bloflbm. Summit Ihicld-fhaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April, till July.
REFERENCE,
i. The Empalement, and Bloflbm.
'l. The Bloflbm.
3 . The Empalement magnified.
4. The Chives, and Poinlal.
5. TheChives detached from the Pointalj one
tip magnified.
6. The Seed-vrfl'el, Shaft, and its Summit,
magnified,