ERICA pinea. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclufis; corollis tu- 
bulofo-clavatis, fnb-albidis; floribus axillaribus, 
verticillatis, pollicaribus; foliis, fub-fenis, linea- 
ribus, glabris, rigidis, longis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis eredtus, plus quambipedalis, robufius; 
rami verticillati, eredlo-patentes, raro ramulofi, 
cauli limiles. 
Folia fena, linearia, glabra, patentia, lon- 
giffima, petiolis adpreffis. 
Flores in medio ramorum verticillati, hori- 
zontales, pollicares; pedunculi breviffimi, bradteis 
tribus inftrudti. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
fubulatis, ad batin latioribus, glabris, adpreffis. 
Corolla tubulofo-clavata, obtufa, fub-albida; 
laciniis reflexis. 
Stamina. Filamenta odto capillaria, corolla 
breviora. Antheras muticas, inclufas. 
Pistillum. Germen turbinatum, fulcatum; 
apice pilofum, ad bafin glandulofum. Stylus 
filiformis, exfertus. Stigma peltatum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a menli Augufli, in Decembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium, lente audtum. 
2. Calyx et Corolla. 
3. Calyx, audtus. 
4. Stamina, et Piflillum. 
5. Stamina a Piftillo didudta, anthera una 
lente audta. 
6. Piftillum, ftigma audtum. 
7. Germen, audtum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardlefs tips, within the bloffoms, 
which are tubularly club-ffiaped, and nearly 
white; flowers grow from the lower part of the 
leaves clofe to the Item in whorls, are an inch 
long; leaves grow moftly by fixes, are linear 
and fmooth, ftiff, and long. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem upright, grows more than two feet 
high and very flout; the branches grow in 
whorls, fpreading and upright, feldom break¬ 
ing into fmaller branches, and like the Item. 
Leaves grow by fixes, are linear, fmooth, 
fpread outward, and very long, the foot-flalks 
prefled to the Item. 
Flowers grow in whorls about the middle 
of the branches, horizontal, and an inch in 
length; the foot-flalks very ffiort, with three; 
floral leaves on them. 
Empalement. Cup four-leayed, the leaflets 
are awl-lhaped, broadeft at the bafe, fmooth, 
and prefled to the bloflom. 
Blossom tubularly club-ffiaped, blunt ended, 
and nearly white; the fegments of the border are 
reflexed. 
Chives. . Eight hair-like threads ffiorter than 
the bloflom. Tips beardlefs and within the 
bloflom. 
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-ffiaped and fur¬ 
rowed ; hairy on the upper part, and glandular 
at the bafe. Shaft thread-ffiaped, and without 
the bloflom. Summit ffiield-ffiaped. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from Auguft, till December. 
REFERENCE. 
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1. A Leaf, magnified. 
2. The Empalement, and Bloflom. 
3. The Empalement, magnified. 
4. The Chives, and Pointal, magnified. 
5. The Chives detached from the Pointal, 
a Tip magnified. 
6. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 
7. The Seed-bud, magnified. 
