Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Januarii ad Maium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Flos, magnitudine naturali, 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto, 6. Germen lente auctum,

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom. Blossoms nearly cylindrical, swelled, and hairy. Flowers almost without foot-stalks, terminating the small branches. Leaves grow by fours, are linear, hairy, and crowded together.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, upright, and spreading. The smaller branches are numerous and hairy.

Leaves by fours, linear, hairy, spreading, and furrowed beneath, with very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers terminate the smaller branches mostly by fours in a horizontal direction. Scarcely any foot-stalks. Floral leaves pressed to the cup.