Chives. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless, and within the blossom.

Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, villose, and furnished with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from July till October.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.
2. The Chives detached from the Pointal.
[Pg 146]3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
4. Seed-bud magnified.

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ERICA villosa.