Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 1Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828
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Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 1
Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828
Ericas; Ericas -- Pictorial works
CAULIS fruticosus, spithamæus, erectus, ramosus; ramuli frequentissimi,
suberecti.
FOLIA quaterna, linearia, glabra, crassiuscula, nitida, patentia;
petiolis brevissimis.
FLORES sessiles, erecti, fastigiati, quaterni, terminales; fere
pedunculati.
CALYX. Perianthium duplex, exterius triphyllum, foliolis subulatis,
marginibus membranaceis, serrato-laceris; interius tetraphyllum,
foliolis longioribus, apicibus carneis, adpressis.
COROLLA ventricosa, pellucida, ore arctata, extus pallide sanguinea,
intus alba; laciniis sub-cordatis, expansis, maximis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, læviter sulcatum. Stylus subexsertus,
filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mensi Februarii in Junium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auctus.
2. Corolla.
3. Stamina et Pistillum.
4. Stamen unum lente auctum.
5. Pistillum lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, just within the blossom; leaves grow by
fours, linear, and smooth; flowers sit close upon the ends of the
branches, upright, and by fours; the leaves of the cup are skinny at the
edge, and sawed as if torn.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a span high, upright, and branching; smaller branches
numerous, and nearly upright.
LEAVES grow by fours, linear, smooth, thickish, shining, and spreading
out; with very short footstalks.
FLOWERS sit close in upright bunches, by fours, on the ends of the
branches; scarce any footstalks.
EMPALEMENT. Cup double, the outer three-leaved, which are awl-shaped,
having the edges skinny, and sawed as if torn; the inner has four
leaves, which are longer than the others; the points flesh-coloured, and
pressed to the blossom.
BLOSSOM bellied out, and pellucid, the mouth narrowed, without a pale
red, white within; the segments nearly heart-shaped, spreading, and very
large.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, within the blossom.
POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, slightly furrowed. Shaft just without
the blossom, and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement magnified.
2. The Blossom.
3. The Chives and Pointal.
4. The Chive magnified.
5. The Pointal magnified.
[Illustration]
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
TO THE
FIGURES IN VOL. I.
1. Erica Aitonia.
2. .... albens.
3. .... ampullacea.
4. .... baccans.
5. .... Banksia.
6. .... bruniades.
7. .... caffra.
8. .... calycina.
9. .... campanulata.
10. .... capitata.
11. .... cerinthoides.
12. .... cernua.
13. .... coccinea.
14. .... conspicua.
15. .... coronata.
16. .... costata.
17. .... cruenta.
18. .... cubica.
19. .... curviflora.
20. .... discolor.
21. .... droseroides.
22. .... exsurgens.
23. .... flexuosa.
24. .... glauca.
25. .... glutinosa.
26. .... grandiflora.
27. .... imbricata.
28. .... incarnata.
29. .... jasminiflora.
30. .... lateralis.
31. .... Leea.
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