Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Flos. 2. Calyx, auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Stamina a pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 5. Pistillum, Stigma diductum, auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips, within the blossom; 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.

DESCRIPTION.

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.

Flowers terminate the smaller branches, making a long, close bunch; foot-stalks hardly any; floral leaves close to the blossom.

Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, tapered, toothed, and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom club-shaped, white, transparent, hairy; segments blunt, upright.