Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maii ad Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with bearded tips, within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers cylindrical and downy: leaves by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high: branches numerous and downy.

Leaves by fours, linear, blunt, downy, and ascending.

Flowers grow mostly by fours, spreading, and terminal: blossoms an inch long, ovately cylindrical, villose, of a scarlet colour: segments of the border upright and spreading.