Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips nearly without the blossom, and beardless.

Pointal. Seed-vessel cylindrical. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August till December.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement and Blossom.
2. The Empalement magnified.
3. The Chives and Pointal.
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified.
5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.

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ERICA setacea.