Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Novembri ad Aprilem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips within the blossoms, which are extremely clammy, in whorls, horizontal, and of a pale green, half an inch long, and ribbed. Leaves by sixes.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, two feet high. The branches are simple, long, and whorled.

Leaves grow by sixes, are linear-pointed and smooth, slightly furrowed, and spreading.

Flowers grow near the ends of the branches, pressed together in horizontal whorls. The footstalks are short, having three floral leaves pressed to the cup.