ERICA Eriocephala. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis, exfertis; corolla urce- 
olata, alba, calyce lanato veftita; floribus capi- 
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tatis, lanatis, numeroiis; foliis ternis, linearibus, 
pilolis, obtufis, eredtis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis ereclus filiformis, fpithamaeus; rami 
et ramuli divaricati, filiformes, pilofi, numerolib- 
limi. 
Folia terna, linearia, pilofa, obtufa, ere61 a, 
parum incurvata, petiolis breviffimis adpreffts. 
Flores in ramulorum apice umbellati feu 
capitati, copioli; pedunculi capillares, longitu- 
dine corollarum, colorati, bradlasis tribus pilolis 
inftrudli. 
Calyx. Periantbium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
lanceolatis, c.oncavis, lanugine albicante denfif- 
fime oblitis. 
Corolla urceolata, alba, tenuiffime alba-la- 
nata, foliolis calycis veftita; laciniis obtufis, eredlis. 
Stamina. Fil amenta o6to capillaria. An- 
therae muticse, exfertee. 
Pistillum. Germen globofum, fulcatum. 
Stylus filiformis, longiffime exfertus. Stigma 
capitatum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a Maio in Auguftum. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium, lente audtum. 
2. Calyx, lente audlus. 
3 . Flos, magnitudine naturali. 
4 . Stamina, et Piftillum. 
5 . Stamen unum, lente audlum. 
6. Piftillum, Stigma audlum. 
7- Germen, lente audlum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardlefs tips, without the blofTom, 
which is pitcher-fhaped, white and covered by a 
woolly cup; flowers grow in heads, woolly and 
numerous; leaves grow by threes, linear, hairy, 
blunt, and upright. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem upright, thread-fhaped, a fpan high; 
the larger and fmaller branches grow ftraddling 
and thread-fhaped, hairy atid very numerous. 
Leaves grow by threes, linear, hairy, blunt, 
upright, a little incurved, with very fhort foot- 
ftalks preffed to the branches. 
Flowers grow at the end of the fmall branches 
in umbels or heads, very numerous; fruit-ftalks 
hair-like, the length of the bloflbms, coloured, 
having three hairy floral-leaves on them. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets lance- 
fhaped, concave, being thickly covered with 
whitifh wool. 
Blossom pitcher-fhaped, white, flighliy co¬ 
vered with white wool, cloathed with the leaflets 
of the cup; fegments blunt, upright. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beard¬ 
lefs, without the bloffom. 
Pointal. Seed-bud globular, furrowed. Shaft 
thread-fhaped, very far without the bloffom.- 
Summit headed. 
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Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from May, till Auguft. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf, magnified. 
2. The Empalement, magnified. 
3. A flower, natural fize. 
4. The Chives, and Pointal. 
5 . One Chive, magnified. 
6. The Pointal, Summit magnified. 
7. The Seed-bud, magnified. 
