Part 45

1. The Empalement and Blossom.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. The Chives and Pointal.

4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified.

5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.

ERICA lutea.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; corollis ovato-acuminatis, luteis; foliis oppositis, triquetris, adpressis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS laxus, filiformis, gracilis, ad basin ramosus; ramuli conferti.

FOLIA opposita, linearia, adpressa, triquetra, supra concava, subtus carinata, sulcata, nitida; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis.

FLORES plures, conglomerati, subterminales; pedunculi capillares, lutei; bracteis binis.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, acuminatis, luteis, glabris.

COROLLA lutea, ovato-acuminata, ore arctata; limbo quadrilobo, subreflexo.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, corolla dimidio breviora, apice recurvata, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ, parvæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen cylindricum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, purpureus, filamentis duplo longior. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Septembre, in Maium.

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, with beardless tips, within the blossoms; which are of a pointed oval shape, and yellow, the leaves grow opposite in pairs, are three-sided, and pressed to the stem.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM flexible, thread-shaped, and slender, branching to the bottom; the branches crowded together.