Part 2

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum.

COROLLA monopetala, quadrifida.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ apice bifidæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen superum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma coronulatum. Capsula quadrilocularis. Dissepimenta valvularum margine.

SEMINA numerosa, minima.

Obs. Antheræ in aliis emarginatæ, in aliis bicornutæ, cristatæ, aristatæ, muticæ, vel penicillatæ; inclusæ vel exsertæ.

HEATH.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

EIGHT CHIVES. ONE POINTAL.

Essential Generic Character.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved.

BLOSSOM one petal, four-cleft.

CHIVES. Threads eight, hair-like, inserted into the receptacle. Tips two-cleft at the end.

POINTAL. Seed-bud above. Shaft, thread-shaped. Summit crowned. Capsule four-celled. Partitions from the edge of the valves.

SEEDS numerous, very small.

Obs. The tips in some are notched at the end, in others two-horned, crested, bearded, beardless, or pencilled; within the blossom, or without.

ERICA acuta.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores in apice omnium ramulorum, terni, cernui. Corolla urceolata, purpurea, nitida. Folia quaterna, subulata, mucronata, glabra, erecta. Caulis erectus, pedalis, gracilis. Rami pauci; ramuli numerosi, brevi, erecti.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers grow by threes at the ends of all the small branches, nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, purple, and shining. Leaves by fours, awl-shaped, sharp-pointed, smooth, and upright. Stem upright, a foot high, slender. Branches few; the small branches numerous, short, and upright.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from May till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. A blossom. 4. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

ERICA albens.

DESCRIPTIO.