ERICA pinifolia. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis senis 
vel octonis, linearibus, tremulis: floribus con- 
fertis, clavatis, pubescentibus, albis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cautis erectiis, sesquipedalis, parum ramosus: 
ramulis simplicibus, foliis tectis. 
Fort sena vel octona, linearia, tremula, gla- 
bra, subtus suleata, attenuata in petiolos capil- 
lares. 
Frores sub apices ramorum verticillatim con- 
ferti, horizontaliter siti: pedunculi colorati, brac- 
teis tribus linearibus. 
Catyx tetraphyllus: foliolis lanceolatis, ad- 
pressis. 
Coroxa clayata, pollicaris, albis, pilis tomen- 
tosis densissime circumsessa: oris laciniis revo- 
lutis, obsolete crenulatis. 
Sramina. Filamenta octo capillaria; anthere 
incluse, mutice. 
Pistirtum. Germen tiareforme, superne la- 
natum, album; inferne viride, ad basin glandu- 
losum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Februarii‘in Julium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx lente auctus. 
2. Corolla lente aucta. 
3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherd unic4 lente 
aucta, 
A. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto, 
5. Germen lente auctum, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with beardless tips within the blossom : 
leaves by sixes or eights, linear, and tremu- 
lous: flowers crowded, club-shaped, hairy, and 
white. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem upright, a foot and a half high, branch- 
ing but little: the smaller branches simple, and 
covered with leaves. 
Leaves by sixes or eights, linear, tremulous, 
and smooth; furrowed beneath, and tapering 
into hair-like footstalks. 
Frowers grow near the ends of the branches 
in crowded whorls, and in a horizontal direc- 
tion ; footstalks coloured, with three linear floral 
leaves. 
Empatement four-leaved: leaflets Jance- 
shaped, and pressed to the blossom. 
Buossom club-shaped, an inch long, white, 
and closely beset with downy hairs: the seg- 
ments of the border are rolled back, and slightly 
notched. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads ; tips within 
the blossom, and beardless. 
Poinrat, Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy 
on the upper part, and white ; greenish below, 
and glandular at the base. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from February till July. 
REFERENCE. 
i 
The Empalement magnified. 
fe 
A Blossom magnified. 
— 
The Chives and Pointal, one tip magni- 
fied. 
PAN 
. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
o 
Seed-bud magnified. 
