Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Flos. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Stamina, et Pistillum. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 5. Pistillum, Stigma auctum. 6. Germen, lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom, which is bellied, flesh-coloured, small and narrowed at the mouth, segments spreading; leaflets of the cup fringed; flowers terminal, crowded together, rather tufted; leaves grow by fours, linear, blunt, and smooth.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, grows a foot high, branching; branches grow twiggy and upright; small branches short, thread-shaped, numerous.

Leaves grow by fours, blunt, spreading, small and smooth.

Flowers terminate the small branches, forming as it were a thick spike; foot-stalks very short, floral leaves pressed to the cup, and fringed.

Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, fringed.

Blossom bellied, flesh-coloured, swelled at the base, narrowed at the mouth; segments of the mouth sharp pointed, spreading.