ERICA viridis. 
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis, corollis confertim 
verticillatis cylindricis viscosis asperiusculis, foliis 
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, 
blossoms crowdedly-whorled cylindric clammy 
senis expansis. 
roughish, and leaves in sixes and expanded. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
DESCRIPTION. 
CaIjlis fruticosus, erectus, ramis plerumque 
simplicibus, erectis, et rigidis. 
Stem shrubby, upright, with the branches 
chiefly simple, erect, and rigid. 
Folia sena, linearia, obtusiuscula, expansa, vel 
demum declinata. 
Leaves in sixes, linear, obtusely pointed, ex¬ 
panded, or finally bent downwards. 
Flores infra apices ramorum, confertim verti- 
cillati ex axillis foliorum, breviter pedunculati, 
horizontales. 
Flowers springing from near the ends of the 
branches, crowdedly whorled from the bosoms of 
the leaves, shortly peduncled, and horizontal. 
Calyx tetraphyllus, viscosus, foliolis subulatis, 
adpressis, bracteis tribus itidern adpressis. 
Empalement four-leaved, clammy, with awl- 
shaped leaflets, pressed to the blossom, with three 
floral leaves pressed to them. 
Corolla cylindrica, uncialis et ultra, saturate 
viridis, viscosa, asperiuscula, laciniis revolutis. 
Blossom cylindrical, an inch long or upwards, 
deep green, clammy, and roughish, with segments 
rolled back. 
Stamina octo, capillaria; antheras muticas, in- 
clusse. 
Chives eight, hair-like ; tips beardless, within 
the blossom. 
Pistillum. Germen tiarseforme, pubescens; 
stylus filiformis ; stigma tetragonum. 
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy j 
shaft thread-shaped; summit four-cornered. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spei. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Floret Maio ad Septembrem. 
Flowers from May till September. 
REFERENTIA. 
REFERENCE. 
3 . Folium lente auctum. 
1 . A Leaf magnified. 
2 . Calyx, et Bracteae adpressae. 
2 . The Calyx and close pressed floral Leaves. 
3 . Corolla. 
3 . The Blossom. 
4 . Stamina diducta, anthera unica lente aucta. 
4 . The Chives detached, with one tip mag¬ 
nified. 
5 . Pistillum stigmate diducto lenteque aucto. 
5 . The Pointal, with the summit detached and 
magnified. 
6 . Germen pubescens et album, lente auctum. 
@. The downy and white Seed-bud, magnified. 
