Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

Name: Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4
Author: Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

Ericas; Ericas -- Pictorial works

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. IV.

                                LONDON:

            PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, NO. 5, KNIGHTSBRIDGE.

             _Printed by R. Taylor and Co. 38, Shoe Lane._

                                 1805.

ERICA Andromedæflora, _alba_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: stylo sub-incluso: floribus
axillaribus, declinatis: foliis ternatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS humilis, fruticosus, robustus, pedalis: rami numerosi, conferti.

FOLIA ternata, subulata, incurvata, robusta: petiolis longis adpressis.

FLORES axillares, sub-terminales, declinati, conferti: calyx magnus,
lato-ovatus, albus: corolla ovata, crassa, alba: oris laciniis erectis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

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.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from March till June.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Blossom.

3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

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