Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Flores capitatim terminales, aggregati: corolla parva, albente, tubo-campanulata: calyce duplici, exteriore trifoliato, subulato, piloso, adpresso: pedunculo brevi.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maio in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Flos. 3. Stamen unum lente aucto. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with bearded tips, just without the blossom: flowers grow in crowded heads, nodding: leaves crowded, hairy, and obtuse: branches long and simple: stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot or more high: branches simple, long, upright, or flexuose.

Leaves irregular, mostly by fours, crowded together, hairy, linear obtuse, and ascending: leaves at the base of the plant spreading.