Chives. Five threads, broadish, slightly joined at the base into one body. Tips upright, tapered, and approaching each other.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, five-sided, five-angled. Shafts five, thread-shaped, close together, awl shaped, longer than the Chives. Summits simple.
Seed vessel. Capsula roundish, five-sided, five-celled, splitting at top.
Seeds, many, small.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Hermannia foliis bipinnatifidis, scabriusculis, albicantibus; pedunculis bifloris, longissimis; corollis sordidé luteis.
Hermannia with doubly wing-cleft leaves, rather rough and whitish; flower-stems two-flowered, very long; blossoms of a dirty yellow.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A leaf of the Blossom, to shew its incurved character at the base.