Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Floret a mense Martii ad Junium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Corolla. 3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with crested tips, within the blossom: shaft just within: flowers axillary, and bending down: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem low, shrubby, and strong, a foot high: branches numerous, and crowded together.

Leaves by threes, awl-shaped, incurved, and stout, with long footstalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers grow from the axillæ of the leaves, nearly terminal, hanging down, and crowded together: empalement large, broadly egg-shaped, and white: blossom ovate, thick, and white: segments of the border straight.

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