Chives. Eight hair-like threads, small. Tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, eight-furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August, till December.
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1. A Flower. 2. The Cup, magnified. 3. The Chives, and Pointal. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. 5. The Pointal, Summit magnified. 6. The Seed-bud, magnified.[Pg 41] |
