Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii ad Maium, iterumque ab Augusto in Septembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Pagina inferior folii lente aucta. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Calyx cum Corollâ. 5. Corolla, calyce diducto. 6. Stamina et Pistillum. 7. Eadem lente aucta. 8. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with crested tips just within the blossom, flowers headed nodding and bell-shaped, branches and leaves hispid, the latter in fours and linear.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubbyish, half a foot high, flexuose, very much branched, with the branches thread-shaped, spreading, hispid, and likewise flexuose.

Leaves in fours, short, linear, obtuse, very hispid; the older ones spreading, or recurved.

Flowers terminal in crowned heads, and small.