ERICA glutinofa.
CHARACTER 5PECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris muticis, inclufis; corollis glutinofiffimis,
verticillatis, confertis, melinre colons,
pollicaribusi foliis fenis, micanübus.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS bipedalis, ereetus, rami fimplices,
longi, raro ramuloii.
FOLIA fena, Unearia, nitida, acuminata,glabra,
lseviter fulcata, patentia, petiolis adpreffis.
FL ORES in apicibus ramorum, verticillatoconfcrti,
horizontale?, pcdunculi brevi, braeteis
tribus calycibus adpreffis.
CALYX. Perianthium tctraphyllnm, foliolis
lanceolatis, vifcofis adpreffis.
COROLLA cylindrica, pollicaria, pallido-lutca,
glutinoiiffima, nitida, oris lacinüs parum reflexis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria. AntheraB
mutica;, inclufie.
PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, fulcatum,
apice pilolum. Stylus filiformis, exfertus. Stigma
letragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mcnii Septcmbri, in Martium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx, et Corolla.
2. Calyx lente auctus.
3 . Stamina, et Piftillum.
4. Stamina a Piftillo didutta; antbera una
lente aucta.
5. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardlefs tips, within the bloffoms,
which are extremely clammy, in whorls,
preffed together, of a itraw colour, and an inch
long; the leaves grow by fixes, and fliine.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM grows two feet high, and upright; the
branches are Ample, long, and feldom branching.
The LEAVES grow by fixes, are linear, mining,
pointed, fmooth, (lightly furrowed, and fpreading;
the foot-flalks preffed to the branches.
The FLOWERS grow at the fummit of the
branches, preffed together in whorls, and horizontal;
the foot-ftalks are fhort, having three
floral leaves prefled to the cup.
EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are
fpear-fhaped, clammy, and preffed to the bloffom.
BLOSSOM, cylindrical, an inch long, of a pale
yellow, very clammy, fhining, with the fegmcnts
of the mouth fiightly reflexed.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. The tips
beardlefs, within the bloffom.
POINTAL. Seed-vefTel turban-fhaped, furrowed,
and hairy at the top. Shaft thrcadfhaped,
and without the bloffom. Summit fourcornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from September, till March.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalcment, and Bloffom.
2. The Empalement magnified.
3 . The Chives, and Pointal.
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one
tip magnified.
5. The Shaft, and its Summit, magnified.