Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Floret a mense Junii ad Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, just within the blossom: shaft without: flowers are cylindrical and sessile: leaves by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot or more high, upright: branches scattered, twiggy, numerous, and hairy.

Leaves by fours, thin, blunt, villose, and upright.

Flowers grow singly, sessile, and terminate the smaller branches: blossoms cylindrically club-shaped, curved, and hairy: the segments of the border are bell-shaped, and rolled back.

Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.