STAMINA. _Filamenta_ octo, capillaria, receptaculo inserta. _Antheræ_ apice bifidæ. PISTILLUM. _Germen_ subrotundum, superum. _Stylus_ filiformis, erectus, staminibus longior. _Stigma_ coronulatum, tetragonum, quadrifidum. PERICARPIUM. _Capsula_ subrotunda, calyce minor, tecta, quadrilocularis, quadrivalvis; _dissepimentis_ cum futuris coeuntibus. SEMINA numerosa, minima. Obs. _Dantur species calyee duplice._ Figura Corollæ _ex ovata, tubulosa, ventricosa, et oblonga, in diversis varia est_. Antheræ _in aliis emarginatæ, in aliis bicornutæ, cristatæ, aristatæ, muticæ, vel penicillatæ; inclusa vel exsertæ_. ESSENTIALIS CHARACTER. _Calyx_ tetraphyllus. _Corolla_ quadrifida. _Filamenta_ receptaculo inserta. _Antheræ_ bifidæ. _Capsula_ quadri-locularis. _Dissepimenta_ valvularum margine. HEATH. CLASS VIII. ORDER I. Eight Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. EMPALEMENT. _Cup_ four-leaved; _leaflets_ between egg-shaped and oblong, remaining. BLOSSOM one petal, bell-shaped, four-cleft, often bellied. CHIVES. _Threads_ eight, hair-like, inserted into the receptacle. _Tips_ two-cleft at the end. POINTAL. _Seed-bud_ roundish, above. _Shaft_ thread-shaped, upright, longer than the chives. _Summit_ crowned, four-cornered, four-cleft. SEED-VESSEL. _Capsule_ roundish, less than the cup, covered, four-celled, four-valved; _partitions_ meeting with the sutures. SEEDS numerous, very small. Obs. _There are some species with a double cup._ The figure of the blossom _as to egg-shape, tubular, bellied and oblong, differs in different species_. The Tips _in some are notched at the end, in others two-horned, crested, bearded, beardless, or pencilled; within the blossom, or without_. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. _Cup_ four-leaved. _Blossom_ four-cleft. _Threads_ inserted into the receptacle. _Tips_ two-cleft. _Capsule_ four-celled. _Partitions_ from the edge of the valves. ERICA aitonia. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris basis bicornibus, inclusis; corollis longissimis, viscosis, sulcatis, sesquipollicaribus, laciniis maximis, cordatis; foliis ternis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS, rami, ramulique filiformes, flexibiles; rami simplices, longi. FOLIA terna, apice patentia, serrata, acuminata, crassa, subtus sulcata. FLORES terminales, umbellati, terni, erecti, pedunculi longissimi, purpurei, bracteis tribus, coloratis, instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis spathulatis, crassis, viscosis, apicibus obtusis, extra concavis. COROLLA sesquipollicaris, sulcata, linearia, summa inflata, ore arctata; laciniis cordatis, maximis, expansis; extra dilute carnea, intus albida. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, torta; antheræ basi bicornes, apice cornutæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen oblongum, sulcatum; stylus rectus, filiformis exsertus, purpureus; stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Julii, in Octobrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx, et Corolla.