Part 7

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement and Blossom.

3. The Empalement magnified.

4. The Chives and Pointal.

5. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified.

6. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.

ERICA baccans.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis; folia quaterna, rigida, glauca; corollis globosis, umbellatis calycibusque purpureis,

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, sesquipedalis, ramosissimus; rami rigidi, erecti, torti.

FOLIA quaterna, glauca, incurvata, subtus sulcata, rigida, serrulata.

FLORES terminales, plerumque quatuor, umbellati, nutantes; pedunculi longi, purpurei, bracteis tribus instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, carinatis, adpressis.

COROLLA globosa purpurea, ima quadrata; limbo quadrilobo, laciniis æqualibus, erectis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheraæ cristatæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen globosum, magnum, sulcatum; stylus subexsertus, pyramidatus; stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Aprilis, in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla,

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum.

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

5. Pistillum et Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom; the leaves grow by fours, are harsh, and of a whitish green; the flowers are globular, in bunches, and are, as well as their cups, purple.