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Rick Meier
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Frederick called Rick | Editor | Publishing Manager, Knopf Canada / Vintage Canada
Chives: Eight hair-like threads. Tips beard-
less, within the blossom. Seed-bud globular, furrowed, hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, just within the blossom.
Summit headed.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of March till June.
March 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Flowers terminate the smaller branches, making a long, close bunch; foot-stalks hardly any; floral leaves close to the blossom. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, tapered, toothed, and pressed to the blossom. Blossom club-shaped, white, transparent, hairy; segments blunt, upright.
March 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Stem shrubby, upright; branches few, upright, smaller branches numerous, very short, hairy. Leaves grow by threes, linear, fringed, straight out, furrowed beneath, with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the branches.
March 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Erica Linnæa. Heath with beardleſs tips, within the blossim; blossoms club-shaped, hairy, and white; flowers almost without foot-stalks, terminate the smaller branches, forming long bunches; the leaflets of the cup are toothed; leaves grow by threes, are linear, fringed, and crowded together.
March 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from August, till November.*
January 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Chives: Eight hair-like threads turned inwards at the top. Tips beardless, within the blossom. 

Pointal: Seed-bud nearly egg-shaped, eight-furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
January 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Empalement: Cup four-leaved, leaflets between egg and lance-shaped, points a little reflexed, hairy and clammy. Blossom tubularly club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and clammy; segments upright.
January 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM

Leaves grow by fixes, linear, harsh, spreading, sawed like a fringe at margin; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem. Flowers grow nearly terminal at the top of the branches in whorls, spreading; foot-stalks short, with three floral leaves.
January 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high; branches upright, ample; small branches few, grow upright-spreading.
January 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
sixes*
January 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Chives: Eight hair-like threads. Tips bearded, and within the blossom.

Seed-bud: nearly globular, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from April, ’till July.*
January 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Cup: four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, skinny at the edge, and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom: cylindrical, narrowed at the top, squared and furrowed at the base, an inch long, of a whitish green, and dark green at the end.
January 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
foot-stalks curved, having three skinny floral leaves on them.
January 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Leaves of the small branches grow mostly by fours, those on the large by fixes, linear, smooth, curved, pointed, spreading; with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the Item.Flowers grow at the top of the branches, close to the stem, in spikes, tiled, hanging down;
January 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Stem shrubby, very upright, grows three feet high; the large branches are few and upright; the small branches grow in whorles and are simple.
January 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

Flowers from August, till November.*
January 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Seed-bud nearly egg-shaped, eight-furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
January 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Chives: eight hair-like threads turned inwards at the top. Tips beardless, within the blossom.
January 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cup: four-leaved, leaflets between egg and lance-shaped, points a little reflexed, hairy and clammy. Blossom tubularly club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and clammy; segments upright.
January 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Flowers grow nearly terminal at the top of the branches in whorls, spreading; foot-stalks short, with three floral leaves.
January 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Leaves grow by fixes, linear, harsh, spreading, sawed like a fringe at margin; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
January 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM