Antheræ bifidæ. Capsula quadri-locularis. Dissepimenta valvularum margine.
HEATH.
CLASS VIII. ORDER I.
Eight Chives. One Pointal.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets between egg-shaped and oblong, remaining.
Blossom one petal, bell-shaped, four-cleft, often bellied.
Chives. Threads eight, hair-like, inserted into the receptacle. Tips two-cleft at the end.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, above. Shaft thread-shaped, upright, longer than the chives. Summit crowned, four-cornered, four-cleft.
Seed-Vessel. Capsule roundish, less than the cup, covered, four-celled, four-valved; partitions meeting with the sutures.