Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: leaves bristle-shaped, long, and crowded: flowers grow in whorls, of a yellow colour: stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem two feet high, upright, with simple ascending branches.

Leaves in sixes, sevens, or eights, erect, crowded, and bristle-shaped: footstalks very long.

Flowers grow in crowded whorls near the ends of the branches: footstalks short, and furnished with three floral leaves.

Empalement four-leaved: leaflets lance-shaped, and pressed to the cup.

Blossom cylindrical, an inch long, yellow, and slightly ribbed: segments of the border nearly round, equal, and spreading.