Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Stamina à Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom. Flowers terminal. Blossom skittle-shaped. Leaves by fours and fives. Stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot or more high, erect, shrubby. Branches crowded, in irregular whorls.

Leaves by fours and fives, smooth, linear, obtuse, and ascending.

Flowers terminate the branches in crowded umbels. Footstalks short.

Empalement. Cup of four leaves; leaflets lance-shaped, channelled in the centre, and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom tubular, oblong, and rose-coloured: border equal: segments half-round, and spreading.