— Verticillate, cernuous. Pedunc. 
pet [5 igy 7 = 
Erica Restnosa. VarNisHeD HEATH. 
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| Clafs and Order. 
OcTAN ont A Monocyn tne: 
Generic Characler—Vid. No. 966. 
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Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms, | 
. ERICA refinofa ; antheris criftatis inclufis 
conicis cernuis lateralibus fubtern 
-»- -acerofis feabriufculis, 9 -- 
ERICA Vernix Hortulanis, As 
tiie a 
- wat ee Pe = 
‘Descr. Stem branched. Leaves crowded clofe, growing — 
by fours, awlfhaped, on footftalks a quarter the length.of the = 
leaf. Flowers lateral, growing’ generally by threes and fub- 
uncles nearly. the length of the 
corolla, furnifhed with three or four narrow lanceolate braétes. 
Calyx of four yellowifh, ovate-acuminate leaflets, thickened to- 
wards the point, but fharp and grooved at the back, and may, not _ 
unaptly, be compared to the beak of a bird. Corol/a inflated: 
tube nearly globular, but contracting gradually towardsthe mouth, © 
of a deep orange colour, highly varnifhed: /imé confiftingoffive 
laciniz, oblong, rounded, overlapping one another, of a deep - 
green colour, which extends a little below the limb. Stamens 
enclofed : filaments curved at both ends, inferted on the under 
fide of the glandular fubftance on which the germen relts, 
connivent at top: anthers nearly triangular, pores oblong, 
extending from near the middle to the point, criftated, or, as 
Mr. Sartssury more correétly fpeaks, fpurs auriculated. 
But in this inftance thefe appendices appear to be real proceffes 
of the anther, tnd not, as we have frequently found them and 
as this author ftates them always to be, parts of the filament: 
Germen globularly four-lobed, © lobes furrowed: Style ered, 
tapering: Stigma enclofed, obtufe, black-purple, ie 
