ERICA pinifblia.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, anthcris muticis, inclusis: foliis senis
vel octonis, linearibua, tremulia: floribus confertis,
clavatis, pubescentibus, albis.
D F . S C R I P T I O .
CALLIS erectus, sesquipedal is, parum ramosus:
rain u I is siuiplicibus, foliis tectis.
FOLIA sena vel octona, linearía, trémula, glabra,
subtus sulcata, attenuata in pctiolos capil-
Iares,
FLORES sub apices ramorum vcrticillatim eonferti,
hoiizontaliter siti: pedunculi colorati, bracteis
tribus linearibus.
CALYX tetrapbyltus: foliolis lauceolalis, adpressis.
COROLLA clávala, pollicaris, albis, pilis tomentosis
densissime eireumsessa : oris laciniis revolutis,
obsolete crenulatis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octp capillaria; anthers
inclusa-, mutica?.
PISTILLLM. Germen tiara-forme, supcrne !anatuin,
album; inferné viridc, ad basin glandulosum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a mense Februarii in Juliuni.
R E F E R E N T I A .
1. Calyx lente auctus.
2. Corolla lente aucta.
3. Stamina ct Pistilluni, anther á" única lente
auctá.
4. Germen et Pistilluni, stigmale lente aucto.
5. Germen lente aiictum.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R .
HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom :
leaves by sixes or eights, linear, and tremulous
: flowers crowded, club-shaped, hairy, and
white.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM upright, a foot and a half high, branching
but little : the smaller branches simple, and
covered with leaves.
LEAVES by sixes or eights, linear, tremulous,
and smooth; furrowed beneath, and tapering
into hair-like footstalks.
FLOWERS grow near the ends of the branches
in crowded whorls, and in a horizontal direction
; footstalks coloured, with three linear floral
leaves.
EMPAXEMENT four-leaved: leaflets lanceshaped,
and pressed to the blossom.
BLOSSOM club-shaped, an inch long, while,
and closely beset with downy hairs : the segments
o f the border arc rolled back, and slightly
notched.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips within
the blossom, and beardless.
POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy
on the upper part, and while; greenish below,
and glandular at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February till July.
R E F E R E N C E .
1. The Empalement magnified.
2. A Blossom magnified.
3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.