Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Flos. 2. Calyx, auctus. 3. Pistillum, Stigma diducta auctum. 4. Stamina et Pistillum, anthera sena diducta et aucta. 5. Germen, auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with bearded tips, within the blossoms, shaft without; blossom club-shaped, an inch long; flowers terminal by threes, two-coloured; floral leaves of the shape of the cups and hairy; leaves grow by threes, linear, blunt, half cylindrical, hairy.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, branching, two feet high, hairy; large and small branches opposite, nearly upright.

Leaves grow by threes, linear, blunt, hairy, rounded above, furrowed beneath, straight, spreading; short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers terminate the branches by threes, nodding; very short foot-stalks; three floral leaves, lance-shaped, fringed, the length of the cup and pressed to it.

Empalment. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, fringed, furrowed at the back.

Blossom club-shaped, bellied near the end, an inch long, of a red purple, greenish at the end; a little narrowed at the mouth, segments blunt, upright.