ERICA hirta, 
Var. viridiflora. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
P 
Enrica, antheris aristatis, inclusis ; floribus ter- 
nis, cylindraceis, viridibus ; foliis ternis et qua- 
ternis, linearibus, obtusis, hirtis ; caule erecto ; 
ramis simplicibus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cautis erectus, bipedalis, villosus ; ramuli 
terni, verticillati. 
Foi terna et quaterna, linearia, recta, obtusa, 
hirta, supra plana, subtus sulcata. 
Frores in ramulis terminales, plerumque terni, 
patento-cernui; pedunculi brevissimi, bractee 
tres lanceolate, ciliate, longitudine calycis, ad- 
presse., 
Caryx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
lanceolatis, ciliatis, sulcatis. 
Corouta cylindracea, pollicaris, viridis ; la- 
ciniis obtusis, erectis. 
Sramina. Filamenta octo capillaria; an- 
there aristate, incluse. 
Pistintum. Germen tiareforme, sulcatum. 
Stylus filiformis, sub-exertus, Stigma tetrago- 
num. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Octobris in Januarium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1.. Folium lente auctum. 
2. Calyx. 
3. Stamina diducta, anther unica lente aucta. _ 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hears, with bearded tips within the blossom ; 
flowers by threes, of a cylinder-shape and green; 
leaves by threes and fours, linear, blunt, and 
hairy ; stem upright; branches simple. — 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem upright, two feet high, and hairy; the 
smaller branches grow by threes in whorls, 
Leaves by threes and fours, linear, straight, 
blunt, and hairy, flat on their upper surface, 
and furrowed beneath. 
Frowers terminate the smaller branches mostly 
by threes, between spreading and hanging down; 
footstalks very short, with three floral leaves, 
lance-shaped, fringed, and pressed to the cup. 
Empatement. Cup four-leaved ; leaflets lance- 
shaped, fringed, and furrowed. 
Brossom cylindrical, an inch long, and green; 
the segments of the border are obtuse, and up- 
right. 
Cuives. Hight hair-like threads ; tips bearded, 
and within the blossom. 
Porntat. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and fur- 
rowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and just without 
the blossom. Summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from October till January. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement. 
3. The Chives detached, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
or 
. Seed-bud magnified, 
