Part 96

3. Calyx lente auctus.

4. Stamina et Pistillum.

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

6. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, almost without the blossom; leaves grow by sixes, linear, tremulous, and tapering into hair-like foot-stalks a quarter of an inch long; the flowers grow from the base of the leaves, are club-shaped, and purple.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, grows two feet high, and upright, simple at the base, then branching out from a whorl into simple ascending branches.

LEAVES grow by sixes, are linear, tremulous, sharp-pointed, smooth, lightly furrowed on the under part, and tapering into hair-like leaf-stems a quarter of an inch in length.

FLOWERS are in whorls about the middle of the branches, straight out, having short foot-stalks with three floral leaves.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are lance-shaped, sawed at the base, green, and smooth.

BLOSSOM club-shaped, an inch long, blunt, straight, and purple, compressed at the mouth, with a four-lobed, reflexed border.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, and nearly of a length with the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, the top crowned by eight plumes of long hairs. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from July till January.

REFERENCE.

1. A leaf with its foot-stalk.

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 vestita coccinea.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-exsertis; foliis senis, tremulis, linearibus, attenuatis in petiolos capillares; corollis clavatis, pollicaribus, coccineis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, sesquipedalis, parum ramosus, ramulis simplicibus, foliis tectis.