COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF HEATHS. Coloured Engravings OF HEATHS. THE DRAWINGS TAKEN FROM LIVING PLANTS ONLY. WITH THE APPROPRIATE SPECIFIC CHARACTER, FULL DESCRIPTION, NATIVE PLACE OF GROWTH, AND TIME OF FLOWERING OF EACH; In Latin and English. EACH FIGURE ACCOMPANIED BY ACCURATE DISSECTIONS OF THE SEVERAL PARTS, (MAGNIFIED WHERE NECESSARY,) UPON WHICH THE SPECIFIC DISTINCTION HAS BEEN FOUNDED, ACCORDING TO THE LINNÆAN SYSTEM. THE WHOLE EXECUTED _By H. C. ANDREWS_, BOTANICAL PAINTER, ENGRAVER, &C. VOL. I. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, NO. 5, KNIGHTSBRIDGE. _Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street._ 1802. ADDRESS. In his endeavours to illustrate this brilliant and extended tribe of plants, the author thinks it necessary to premise, by way of deprecating the opinion of the Public on this part of his labours; that, as all his drawings are taken from cultivated plants, some of them may thence appear less picturesque, than if he indulged his fancy in their design; or more fortunately, have enjoyed the opportunity of copying them on the soil where nature has placed them indigenous: But, as the latter never was within his power; he would rather stand convicted of apparent want of taste, in the execution of a work where ornament should give way to science, than be taxed with having varied from a just representation of the plant, as it must meet the eye of the British Botanist. Numerous and beautiful as are the specimens of this Genus, in the splendid herbariums of Sir J. Banks, Bart. P. R. S. &c.; G. Hibbert, Esq.; A. B. Lambert, Esq. &c. &c.; yet, as the dried plant exhibits so very different an appearance, from the living one, in every character necessary for a perfect drawing, but particularly in the blossoms; no advantage can be taken, to ornament, or add to, the present undertaking, from them; unless, by comparison, to determine some species, which have been described by those Botanists who have named them at the Cape of Good Hope. Since, therefore, the original intent of this work, was, (and in its progress we have found no reason to alter the plan,) to give figures of those species of Heaths, only, which are actually cultivated in the different collections of this country: so, whatever may be imputed to