Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips just within the blossom; flowers grow in whorls; blossom cylindrical and yellow; leaves by sixes, and linear; stem upright and shrubby.

DESCRIPTIO.

Stem shrubby, a foot high, nearly upright; branches spreading.

Leaves by sixes, linear, spreading, and turning inwards at the points; footstalks long.

Flowers grow horizontally in whorls near the summits of the branches; footstalks very short.

Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, with three floral leaves pressed to them.

Blossom cylindrical, of a yellow gold colour, swelled at the end; segments of the border large, whitish and spreading.