ERICA tenuiflora, alba.
CIIAHACTF.lt 8FECIFICUS.
Erica, anthcris mulicis, inclusis: floribus quaternis,
tenuissimis, albis: foliis quatcruis, l i -
ncaribus, glabris : caulis gracilis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAVLIS fruticosiis, debilis, pcdalis ct ultra:
rami et ramuli lilitbrmcs, virgati.
FOLIA quatcrna, lincaria. obtusn, glabra,
crecto-patentia.
FLORES ad apices rainulorum quatcrni: pcdunculis
hrevibus, bracteis tribus subulatis iustructis.
CALYX tetraphyllus: foliolis lutcolo-virentibus,
lanccolatis, adprcssis.
COROLLA tnha^forinis, tcnuissiina: oris laciniis
acuminatis, patcntibus, albicantibus: tubo pcllucido.
STAMINA. Filaoicnta o c t o ; anthcris muticis,
inclusis.
PISTILI.UM, Germen tiaraforme, sulcatum.
Stylus tiliformis. Stigma tctragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona- Spei.
Floret a mouse Julii in Decembrem.
R E l ' t B E X T I A .
1. Calyx lente auctus.
?. Corolla lente aucta.
3. Stamina ct Pislillum, authera unicfi lente
aucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, sliginate lente aucto.
5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom:
flowers grow by fours, slender, and white: leaves
by fours, linear, and smooth : stem slender.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, weak, a foot or more high:
the small and large branches are thread-shaped,
and twiggy.
LEAVES by fours, linear, blunt, smooth, erect,
and spreading.
FLOWERS grow by fours at the ends of the
small branches: footstalks short, and furnished
with three awl-shaped floral leaves.
EMPALEMENT four-leaved: leaflets of a yellowish
green, lance-shaped, and pressed to the
blossom.
BLOSSOM trumpet-shaped, and very slender;
the segments of the border are sharp-pointed,
spreading, and very white; the tube is o f a
transparent white.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless,
and within the blossom.
POINT At. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed.
Shaft thread-shaped. Summit fourcornered.
Native o f the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till December.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement magnified.
"J. A Blossom magnified.
3. The Chives and Points), one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.