Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 1

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Pistillum. Germen turbinatum, apice, pilis longis, plumosis, octofarium coronatum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Julii in Januarium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium unum cum petiolo.

2. Calyx et Corolla.

3. Calyx lente auctus.

4. Stamina et Pistillum.

5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta.

6. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, almost without the blossom; leaves grow by sixes, linear, tremulous, and tapering into hair-like foot-stalks a quarter of an inch long; the flowers grow from the base of the leaves, are club-shaped, and purple.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, grows two feet high, and upright, simple at the base, then branching out from a whorl into simple ascending branches.

Leaves grow by sixes, are linear, tremulous, sharp-pointed, smooth, lightly furrowed on the under part, and tapering into hair-like leaf-stems a quarter of an inch in length.