ERICA villosa.
C H A R A C T E R S P E C I F I C ÜS.
ERICA, antheris muticis, excrtis; floribus villosis,
urceolatis, albis. Calyx villnsus, ad marginen]
viridis; fcdiis tcrnis, revolutis, villosis.
Caul is dobilis.
D E S C R I P T I O ,
CAULO fruticnsus, flcxuosus, purpurascens.
Rami et ramidi filiformes, villosi.
FOLIA terna, linearía, obtusa, ad margines revoluta;
seniora pateutia, júniora adsceudentia ;
margine pilis longis hirta.
FLORES ín extremis ramulis terminales, subterni,
penduli. Pedunculi longi, rubri; bracteis
tribus mimitis adpressis.
CALYX. Pcrianthium IctraphyHum; foliolis
lato-uvatis, sulratis, totis densissime albo-villosis:
margine calvéis la?tc viridi.
COROLLA urceolata, villosa, alba ; oris laciniis
ohtusis, ereclis.
STAMINV. Filamenta octo capillaria; antliera'
mutiess, exerta1.
PISTILLI M. Germen tiara?fonne. pubescens,
ad basin glandulosuni. Stylus filiforme-, staminibus
paulo longior. Stigma tetnigoiium.
Ilabilal ad Caput liona1 Spei.
Flore! a incuse Februarii 111 Jiuiium.
Ü E F E R E X T I A .
1. Pagina inferior Folii lente aucta.
y. Calyx et Corolla.
3. Stamina et Pislillum, lente aucta.
4. Flos.
5. Calyx lente auctus.
(i Germen lente auctum.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R ,
HEATH, with beardless tips, w itbout the blossom.
Flowers hairy, pitcher-shaped, and white. Cup
hairy, with green edges. Leavesbv threes, rolled
hack at the edges, and hairy. Stem weak.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM shrubby, flexuose, and o f a purplish
colour. The small and large branches are threadshaped,
and hairy.
LEAVES by threes, linear, blunt, and rolled
back at the edges ; the older ones spreading, the
younger ones ascending: the edges rough with
long hairs.
FLOWERS g r ow at the extremitv o f the smaller
branches, mostly by threes, hanging down. T h e
footstalks are long, of a red colour, with three
small tioral leaves pressed to them.
EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved. Leaflets
broadh egg-shaped, furrowed, and covered with
long white hairs: the edges of the cup are o f a
bright green colour.
BLOSSOM pitcher-shaped, hairv. and white:
the segments of the border are obtuse, and upright.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless,
and without the blossom.
POIXTAL. Seed-bud turban-shapid, downy,
and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped,
a little longer than the chives. Summit fourcornered.
Native of the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flower- from February till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The under side o f a Leaf magnified.
2. The Empalemenl and Blossom.
3. The Chives and Poiutal magnified
4. A Flower.
5. The Empalemenl magnified.
f>. Seed-bud magnified.
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