Part 25

5. One Chive, magnified.

6. The Shaft, and its Summit, magnified.

ERICA cruenta.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris aristatis, sub-inclusis, foliis quaternis, corollis sub-ternis, glabris, clavato-cylindricis, pollicaribus; saturate sanguineis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus; rami erecti, ramulosi; ramulis brevissimis, frequentissimis.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, glabra, nitida, saturate viridia, petiolis brevissimis, adpressis.

FLORES in ramulis terminales, prope caulis summitatem, racemum quali formantes longum; pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus ad basin instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, serratis, adpressis.

COROLLA clavato-cylindrica, glabra, cruenta, pollicaris; oris laciniis rectis, obtusis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta; antheræ aristatæ, sub-inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen sub-ovatum, sulcatum, pubescens; stylus exsertus; stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Augusti, in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Calyx, lente auctus.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum.

4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta.

5. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, whose tips are bearded, and just within the blossom; the leaves grow by fours, the flowers mostly by threes, and are smooth, cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, and of a deep blood colour.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, grows two feet high, and upright; the branches grow upright, having many smaller branches, which are thick set, and very short.

The LEAVES grow by fours, are linear, smooth, shining, and of a deep green, having very short foot-stalks, pressed to the stem.

The FLOWERS terminate the shorter branches near the summit of the stem, forming as it were a long bunch; the foot-stalks are long, having three floral leaves at their base.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are lance-shaped, sawed, and pressed to the blossom.