Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips, just within the blossom, shaft without; flowers nearly terminate the branches in whorls; blossoms cylindrical, an inch long, and of a gold colour; leaves grow by sixes, linear, smooth, and horizontal.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, shrubby, a foot high; the branches grow in whorls, spreading, and stiff.

Leaves grow by sixes, linear, smooth; the older ones rather cylindrical, the younger smooth, turned inward at the end, and spreading; very short foot-stalks.

Flowers grow horizontally in whorls near the summit of the branches; foot-stalks very short, having three floral leaves on them.

Empalment. Cup four-leaved, leaflets awl-shaped, smooth, pressed to the blossom.

Blossom cylinder-shaped, smooth, gold coloured; segments of the mouth a little reflexed.