ERICA vifcaria. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclufis; corollis cam- 
panulatis, vifcolis; floribus axillaribus, fpicatis; 
calycibus foliaceis, duplicatis; foliis quatemis, 
linearibus, glabris. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticofus, bipedalis, ere&us; rami et 
ramuli fimplices, longi, laxi, fuperne vifcofi. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, acuta, glabra, juniora 
in apicibus ramulis vifcofa; petiolis adpreffis. 
Flores fpicati in medio ramulorum, patentes, 
axillares; pedunculi breviffimi. 
Calyx. Perianthium duplex; foliolis rudi- 
bus, vifcolis, adpreffis, marginibus glandulofis. 
Corolla campanulata, valde mucofa, purpu- 
rafcens, femiquadrifida; laciniis reflexis. 
Stamina. Filamenta o6to linearia. Antheras 
muticae, inclufae. 
Pistillum. Germen globofum. Stylus in- 
clufus, filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a menli Aprili, in Julium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx, et Corolla. 
2. Calyx, auctus. 
3. Corolla. 
4. Stamina, et Piftillum. 
4. Stamina a Piltillo didudla. 
6. Stamen unum, au<5tum. 
7. Stylus, et Stigma, lente audta. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardlefs tips, within the bloffoms, 
which are bell-lhaped, and clammy; the flowers 
grow from the foot-ftalks of the leaves clofe to 
the branches forming clofe fpikes; the cups are 
like the leaves of the plant, and are double; the 
leaves grow by fours, are linear and fmooth. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem fhrubby, grows two feet high, and up¬ 
right; the larger and fmaller branches are limple, 
long, loofe and clammy at the ends. 
Leaves grow by fours, are linear, pointed, 
and fmooth, the younger ones are clammy at the 
ends of the branches; foot-ftalks preffed to the 
llem. 
Flowers grow in fpikes about the middle of 
the branches, fpreading out, and growing from 
the foot-ftalks of the leaves; the foot-ftalks very 
lhort. 
Empalement. Cup double; the leaves un¬ 
equal, clammy and prefled to the bloflom, with 
fmall glands on their margins. 
Blossom bell fhaped, very clammy, purple, 
half way cleft into four, the fegments bent back. 
Chives. Eight linear threads. Tips beardlefs 
and within the-bloflom. 
Pointal. Seed-bud globular. Shaft within 
the bloflom and thread-fhaped. Summit four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from April, till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. ' The Empalement and Bloflom. 
2. The Empalement, magnified. 
3. The Bloflom. 
4. The Chives, and Pointal. 
5. The Chives detached from the Pointal. 
6. A Chive, magnified. 
7. The Shaft and Summit, magnified. 
