ERICA hirta, Far. viridiftora.
CIIARACTER SFECI FICVü.
ERICA, antheris aristaüV, inelusis; íloribus lernis.
cylindracci-, viridiuus; folüs ternis et quaternis,
linearibus, obtusis, liirtis; caulc erecto;
lunfa siiiipliribu>.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAVLIS ereclus, bipcdali*. villosus; raiinili
temí, Terticillati.
FOLIA terna et quatcrna, linearía, recta, obtusa,
hirta, snpra plana, subtus sulcata.
FLORES in ramulis terminales, plerumque terni,
patente—cernui; pedunculi brevissimi, bractea
tres lanccolata*. »iliat;r, longitudine calvéis, adpressa,
CALYX. Pcrianthium tetra plivllum, foholis
lanceolatis, ciliatis, sulcatís.
Coa OLLA rylindracea, pollicari*, viridis; laciníis
obtusis, crcc'is.
STAMINI. F'ilamenta OCTO capillaria; anthrra?
aristaue, inc¡us;e.
PlSTILLOM, Germen tinnrfornic, sulcatum.
Stvlus liliformis, sub-evertus. Sligma telragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Borne ífpei.
SPECIFIC CIIA P. ACTE 1!.
HEATH, with bearded tips within the blossom;
flowers by threes, of a cylinder-shape and green;
leaves by threes and fours, linear, blunt, and
hairy; stem upright; branches simple.
V INSCRIPTION.
STI.II upright, two feet high, and hairv; the
smaller branches grow by threes in whorls,
LEAVES by threes and fours, linear, straight,
blunt, and hairy, flat on their upper surface,
and furrowed beneath.
FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches mostly
by threes, between spreading and hanging down;
footstalks very short, with three floral leaves,
lance-shaped, fringed, and pressed to the cup.
EMPALEMF.NT. Cup four-leaved ; leaflets lanceshaped,
fringed, and furrowed.
BLOSSOM cylindrical, an inch long, and green;
the segments of the border are obtuse, and upright.
CHIVES. Fight hair-like threads; tip= bearded
and within the blossom.
POINT A t.. Seed-hud turban-shaped, and furrowed.
Shaft thread-shaped, and just without
the blossom. Summit four-iornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
•lord a mense Octobris in Januarium.
REFKREXTIA.
1. Folium lente aiictum.
2. Calyx.
3. Stamina diductu, anthera tUlícl lente aucta.
4 Germen el Pistillum, stiginale lenta aucto.
~i. Germen lente aiictum.
Flowers from October till January.
REFERENCE-
1. A Leaf magnified.
2. The Empalemcnt.
3. The Chives detached, one tip magnified
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified
t>. Seed-bud magnified.