Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maio in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Corolla. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Stamen unicum lente auctum. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft without. Flowers terminate the small branches. Blossom bell-shaped, and flesh-coloured. Leaves by threes, mucronated at the end. Stem shrubby and branching.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot and a half high, and shrubby. The large and small branches are numerous, erect, spreading or nodding.

Leaves by threes, three-sided, smooth, between erect and spreading, with a mucronated point turned inward.

Flowers terminate the branches, and are from 3 to 6, nodding. Footstalks long, coloured, with three mucronated floral leaves.