Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Maio; in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium unum, lente auctum. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Corolla, magnitudine naturali. 4. Stamina et Pistillum. 5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta. 6. Stamen unum, lente auctum. 7. Pistillum, lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with crested tips, within the blossom, shaft just without; blossoms pitcher-shaped, white, hairy; foot-stalks very long, floral leaves distant from the blossom; flowers grow in umbels at the end of the branches; leaves grow by fours, egg-shaped, bearded, spreading, concave beneath.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, grows a foot high and zigzaged; branches are thread-shaped, limber and few; small branches are a little hairy and grow spreading.

Leaves grow by fours, fringed, oval, rather curved, spreading, concave beneath, glandular above; with foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels, nodding; foot-stalks covered with hairs, longer than the leaves, leaflets distant from the blossom.