Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Heath, with bearded tips, within the blossom: flowers grow in umbels from the axillæ of the leaves, globular, and hairy: leaves by fours: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot high, shrubby and upright: branches ascending.

Leaves by fours, linear, obtuse, hairy, and spreading, flat on their upper surface and furrowed beneath.

Flowers grow in umbels from the axillæ of the leaves: blossom globular, purple, and hairy: segments of the border rounded, spreading, and equal.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of July till September.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. One Chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.

The Erica mollis is a compact little shrub, with lively purple flowers: both flowers and leaves are covered with short hairs, which give it a soft appearance, although to the touch the hairs are more hispid than downy. Our figure is from a plant at Mr. Lee’s Nursery.[Pg 127]