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
Floret a mense Junii usque ad Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx.
2. Stamina et pistillum.
3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta.
4. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with tips minutely two-horned just without the blossom: flowers
sessile, and hanging down: leaves by threes: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM low, upright, and shrubby: smaller branches mostly by threes.
LEAVES by threes, smooth, nearly three-sided, curved, and pointed.
FLOWERS grow by threes at the ends of the smaller branches, hanging
down: footstalks none: cup double, the outer one three-leaved; blossom
green, clammy, and skittle-shaped: segments of the border upright.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with
honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. Chives and Pointal.
3. A Chive, summit magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
THIS little green-flowered shrub at first sight bears a strong
resemblance to the E. clavata, but on close inspection will be found to
differ in almost every particular, except colour, from that species. We
first observed the E. viridiflora, at the Hammersmith nursery, in 1820,
at which period there was only one plant of it that had been raised from
Cape seed: at present there are many other plants of it, that will, upon
comparison, be found to differ from the E. clavata, not only in the
exterior, but also in the interior of the blossom, as the anthers in
this species are minutely bicornute, and in the other beardless.
[Illustration]
ERICA undulata.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA muticis inclusis: floribus terminalibus: corollis ampullaceis:
foliis ternis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis: fruticosus rami virgati flexuosi.
FOLIA terna, linearia, brevia adscendentia verticillis, irregulariter
confertis.
FLORES ramulos terminant plerumque terni: corolla uncialis ampullacea,
costata, undulata, rubra: oris laciniis recurvatis.
GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Maii in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium.
2. Calyx.
3. Stamen, antherâ lente auctâ.
4. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal:
blossom flask-shaped: leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a foot high: shrubby branches, twiggy and flexuose.
LEAVES by threes, linear, short and ascending, in irregular crowded
whorles.
FLOWERS terminate the branches mostly by threes: blossom an inch long,
flask-shaped, ribbed, waved, and red: segments of the border rolled
back.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped and furrowed, and 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.
2. The Empalement.
3. A Chive, tip magnified.
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