Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus, 3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unicâ diductâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with crested tips within the blossom, leaves in fours, and broad-egg-shaped terminal blossoms.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, nearly upright, with branches spreading, or sometimes drooping.

Leaves in fours, erect, linear, smooth, furrowed beneath, with short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers terminal in nodding or cernuous umbels, of from three to eight flowers; the peduncles longish, and furnished with three floral leaves.

Empalement four-leaved, with the little leaves broad-egg-shaped, and much acuminated.

Blossom broad-egg-shaped, smooth, red-purple, with obtuse segments.