Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828
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Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4
Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828
Ericas; Ericas -- Pictorial works
WE found this new species of Erica in bloom at the Hammersmith Nursery
in the autumn of 1823, under the specific title of _Bauera_, in
compliment to Mr. Bauer, Botanic Draftsman to the Royal Gardens at Kew.
Throughout this extensive Genus of plants, we do not know any one it
resembles at present: but in three or four years time the case may be
different, Mr. Lee having a collector now in the interior of the Cape in
search of novelties; and should his attempt in exploring that botanic
mine prove successful, we may expect an importation of many distinct
species and beautiful varieties.
[Illustration]
ERICA Beaumontia.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA muticis inclusis; floribus campanulatis; cernuis, foliis linearia
glandulosa; caule fruticoso.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS sub pedalis, fruticosus, ramis et ramulis flexuosis.
FOLIA plerumque quaterna, linearia, patentia, obtusa, supra plana,
subtus sulcata: marginibus glandulosus.
FLORES in ultimis ramulis terminales ternis vel senis, pedunculi, rubri:
corolla campanulata, cernui, magna alba: oris laciniis revolutis.
GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum: ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Maii in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium auctum.
2. Calyx.
3. Stamina et pistillum.
4. Stamen, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.
5. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers bell-shaped,
nodding: leaves linear and glandular: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM near a foot high, shrubby: the large and smaller branches flexuose.
LEAVES mostly by fours, linear, spreading and obtuse, nearly flat on
their upper surface, and furrowed beneath: with glandular margins.
FLOWERS terminate the ends of the smaller branches in threes or sixes,
footstalk, red: blossom bell-shaped, nodding, large and white: segments
of border rolled back.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped and furrowed; furnished at the base with
honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified.
2. The Empalement.
3. Chives and pointal.
4. A Chive, one tip magnified.
5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
THIS fine new species of Erica was raised from Cape seed last Autumn,
1827, and flowered the ensuing Summer for the first time at the Nursery
of Messrs. Rollinson, Lower Tooting. We have named it after Mrs.
Beaumont, of Bretton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, a great admirer of
this fine genus of plants. The only heath throughout this extensive
family, to which it bears any resemblance, is the E. odorata. It is a
handsome dwarf shrub, flowering freely during the months of May and
June.
[Illustration]
ERICA colorans.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus spicatis, confertis: foliis
quaternis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra: ramuli numerosi, breves,
tomentosi.
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