Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 1

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 p...

HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom; the shaft without; the blossoms bell-shaped and white; flowers grow in bunches, pointing all one way, nodding and very sweet; leave...

HEATH, with beardless tips, just within the blossom, shaft without; the flowers grow at the end of branches in whorls, club-shaped, curved, and of a scarlet colour; the leaves o...

HEATH, with beardless tips, without the blossom; leaves grow by fours, are sharp pointed, and bent back at the point; the blossoms are cylindrically club-shaped, grow in whorls,...

The LEAVES grow opposite in pairs, are linear, pressed to the stem, three-sided, concave on the upper, and keel-shaped on the under surface, furrowed, and shining; having very s...

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, nearly of a length with the pointal, crooked at their upper part, and fixed in the receptacle. Tips beardless, within the blossom, cleft, and fi...

LEAVES growing generally in sixes, linear, bent backward and spreading, plain on their upper, and rolled back on their under, surface, sharp-pointed, inflexible, with short leaf...

HEATH, with tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom, the shaft very long and without; flowers grow in long bunches, terminating the small branches by threes; blossoms pi...

HEATH, with beardless tips, almost without the blossom; leaves grow by sixes, linear, tremulous, and tapering into hair-like foot-stalks a quarter of an inch long; the flowers g...

1. absynthoides | g | r | p || 2. Aitonia | d |l,b| s || 3. albens | g |s,b| p || 4. ampullacea | d |l,b| s || 5. arborea | m | r | l || 6. β ... squarrosa | m | r | l || 7. γ ....