Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Martio in Maium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Flos. 2. Calyx auctus. 3. Stamina, et Pistillum. 4. Stamina libera, anthera una diducta lente aucta. 5. Pistillum, magnitudine naturali. 6. Germen, lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips, without the blossom, which is cone-shaped, orange, incurved and an inch long, the border swelled and shut; leaflets of the empalement tiled, nearly egg-shaped, pointed, harsh; flowers mostly by threes, terminal; leaves by threes, linear, harsh, blunt, and spreading.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, a foot and a half high, brown; branches covered by smaller branches growing by threes, close together and spreading.

Leaves grow by threes, linear, harsh, rather rough, furrowed beneath, blunt and spreading.

Flowers grow mostly by threes, terminating the small branches, turned inwards and hanging down; foot-stalks very short.