Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Floret a mense Autumnales.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Flos. 4. Stamen et pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen auctum. 7. Flos varietas.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers terminal, tubular, and ribbed; leaves linear and crowded: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, a foot and half high: the large and smaller branches flexuose.

Leaves grow in irregular whorls, of fives and sixes: waved and spreading.

Flowers grow in umbels, crowded and horizontal: blossom tubular, purple, short, inflated, and ribbed: segments of the border heart-shaped and spreading: footstalks short.

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