Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Flos varietatis.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers nearly terminal: leaves by fours: branches whorled.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot or more high: the large and smaller branches grow in whorls.

Leaves by fours, lance-shaped, hairy and spreading.

Flowers nearly terminal, in umbels, upright: footstalks purple: leaflets of the cup are lance-shaped, and furnished at the base with two opposite floral leaves.