Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ subexsertæ, muticæ.

Pistillum. Germen ovatum, sulcatum, ad basin apiceque glandulis cinctum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma obsoletum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Martio in Junium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Flos. 2. Calyx, auctus. 3. Stamina, et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4 Germen auctum. 5 Pistillum, magnitudine naturali.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, just without the blossom; shaft a long way without; the top of the seed-bud crowned with glands; blossoms club-shaped, near an inch long, and of a red-scarlet colour; flowers solitary, sitting close on the ends of the branches; leaves grow by fours, linear and smooth.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, a foot and a half high, smooth; branches upright; small branches twiggy, rather upright, thread-shaped.