Part 72

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement, and Blossom.

2. The Empalement, magnified.

3. The Blossom.

4. The Chives detached from the Pointal.

5. A Tip, magnified.

6. The Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified.

ERICA radiata.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; stylo exserto; floribus horizontaliter-verticillatis, terminalibus; corollis sub-cylindricis, pollicaribus, laciniis revolutis; foliis quaternis, glabris, patentibus.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, sub-pedalis, ramosus; rami sub-simplices, patento-erecti, glabri.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, patentia, subtus sulcata, supra plana, glabra; petiolis adpressis.

FLORES in ramulorum apice verticillati, horizontaliter siti; pedunculi foliorum longitudine, bracteis tribus, subulatis, instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis subulatis, adpressis.

COROLLA subcylindrica, calyce triplo longior; oris laciniis revolutis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, exfertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Augusti, in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Flos.

2. Calyx, lente auctus.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum.

4. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom; shaft without; flowers terminate the branches in horizontal whorls; blossoms nearly cylindrical, an inch long, with the segments of the border rolled back; leaves grow by fours, smooth and spreading.

DESCRIPTION.