Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx duplex. 2. Corolla. 3. Eadem expansa. 4. Stamina et Pistillum. 5. Stamen exterius lente auctum. 6. Pistillum, stigmate diducto lenteque aucto. 7. Germen tiaræforme lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with bearded tips within the blossom, blossoms axillary bent downwards woolly and acutely egg-shaped, with the whorls of ternate ciliated leaves distinct.

DESCRIPTION.

A dwarf shrub, but stoutish, scarcely a foot high, erect, with chiefly simple, scarcely spreading branches.

Leaves in threes, in distinct whorls, a little bent downwards, lanately-ciliated, and furrowed beneath.

Flowers in the bosoms of the leaves, often solitary, nearly sessile, at first nodding, finally cernuous.

Empalement double, outer the smallest, 3-leaved, with the leaflets close-pressed to the blossom, egg-shaped, acute, outwardly convex, keeled, and woolly: interior four-leaved, with the leaflets as in the exterior one, but above twice as large.

Blossom four-cleft, large, egg-shaped, acutish, inflated, woolly, of a dingy yellow-white, purply-brownish at the base, with the segments egg-lance-shaped, converging, and obtuse.