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 auctum. 6. Germen, auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips, without the blossom and formed like a pencil; blossom conical, purple, segments yellow, small, and upright; flowers grow in spikes, solitary, hanging down; the leaflets of the cup are channelled at the back, eared at the base and coloured; floral leaves very small, distant; leaves grow by threes, bundled, linear, and smooth.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, shrubby; branches nearly simple, long; small branches close together.

Leaves grow by threes, linear, smooth, pointed, spreading, and bundled; with very short footstalks pressed to the stem.

Flowers grow solitary, hanging down making a spike from the middle of the branches; footstalks coloured, long, having the small floral leaves on their lower part.

Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets channelled at the back, eared, coloured, pointed and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom conical and purple; segments small, upright, greenish-yellow.