Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Flos, magnitudine naturali. 2. Calyx cum bracteis aucta. 3. Stamina, a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Pistillum et Germen.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with bearded tips, within the blossom, shaft without; flowers terminal, mostly by threes, fitting nearly close to the stem; blossoms swelled and yellow; leaves grow by fours, thickish, blunt, shining; branches bent downward; sturdy stem.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, sturdy, a span in height; branches straddle, grow zig-zagged, and pressed downward; small branches numerous and short.

Leaves grow by fours, linear, thickish, blunt, shining, the older ones turned back; very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

Flowers terminate the small branches by threes, in general, fitting close to the stem; floral leaves tiled and pressed to the cup.

Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, skinny edged, keeled, and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom nearly cylindrical, swelled, near an inch long and yellow.