Chives. Threads eight hair-like. Tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud hairy, top-shaped, appearing cut off at the top and feathered. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from November till April.
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1. A Flower. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. The same, magnified. 5 The Seed-bud, magnified.[Pg 81] |
