Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla. 4. Lacinia una Limbi aucta. 5. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 6. Germen et Stylus, stigmate aucto. 7. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom; flowers terminating the branches in crowded umbels; blossom bellied; border large, the segments spreading, with eight glands surrounding the mouth; leaves by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, a foot high, branching; the branches are loose and thread-shaped.

Leaves by fours, reflexed, harsh, fringed, sharp-pointed, and furrowed beneath.

Flowers terminate the branches in umbels crowded together, with short footstalks, having three lance-shaped fringed floral leaves pressed to the cup.

Empalement four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, fringed, and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom bellied, of a very shining white, squared at the base, straitened at the mouth, and slightly furrowed; border very large, the segments roundish and spreading; eight glands surrounding the mouth.