Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossoms; which grow by fours, are very slender, and yellow. Leaves by threes and fours, and linear.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, a foot high, weak. The large and small branches are thread-shaped, and twiggy.

Leaves by threes and fours, linear, with long foot-stalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers grow by fours at the ends of the small branches, and spreading; with very short foot-stalks.

Empalement. Cup double; the outer three-leaved, and leaflets lance-shaped; the inner one four-leaved, and longer than the outer.

Blossom trumpet-shaped, very slender, and yellow; segments of the border sharp-pointed and spreading.