ERICA SPARRMANNf. 
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humerantur; extra quem traftum ipfi neque antea, 
neque poftea fe confpiciendam prsebuic. Mefnoria 
fumtuoti iftius et laboris periculique pleni itfneris 
ceL Sparrmanni, in locum* ubi nullus antea ver- 
fatus fucrat Botanicus, fervabitur optime, fi hunc 
fruticem Ericam Sparrmanni nominavcro, quem* 
admodum aJibe hujus generis fpecies nominibus 
Plukcnetii y Petiveri, Bergii* Thunbergiique exftanc 
infignita?. 
FRUTEX bipedalis, virgatust ramis fparfis, 
teretiufculis, cinereo- fufcis, rigidis, nudis, 
aphyllis, cicatrifatis: cicatricibus elevatis; 
procumbentibus , truncatis* Ramuli breves, 
hifpidi, fulcati, te&i undique foliis imbrica- 
tis, unde apice incraiTati, obtufi. 
FOLIA ramulorum verticillata , quaterna, ap- 
proximata, incumbentia, imbricata; apice 
fubincurvata, petioJata, lineari-fubulata, in- 
tegerrima, convexiufcula, fubtus exarata fulco 
longitudinali , profundo, (h. e. acerofa,) fupra 
glaberrima, fubtus & margine cartilagineo* 
hifpida, unde ciliata: piJis patentiflimis , re- 
motis, albis, per quatcrnas feries , margine 
majoribus, femiunguicularia , perfiftcntia. 
PetioJi breviflimi, lineares, utrinque pJani, 
glaberrimi, adprefli. 
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