Seed-vessel. Four capsules, egg-shaped, tapering, upright and three sided, opening inwards along the seam.
Seeds many, very small.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Vereia, foliis oppositis, crenatis, patentibus; racemis longissimis laxis; floribus luteis.
Vereia, with opposite, scolloped, spreading leaves; very long loose spikes, and yellow flowers.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement, (natural size.)
2. A Blossom cut open to shew the situation of the Chives.
3. The Seed-vessel, Shafts, and Summits, with the scales of the Honey-cups, as they stand in the blossom, (magnified.)
4. One Capsule of the Seed-vessel detached.