Category: Art
The unabating ardour that still prevails in the science of botany, and rather increases than diminishes, renders it almost impossible (from the extreme minutiæ annexed to this elegant tribe) for the pencil of the artist to keep pace with the numerous importations from the Cape...
The unabating ardour that still prevails in the science of botany, and rather increases than diminishes, renders it almost impossible (from the extreme minutiæ annexed to this e...
2. Part 2HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers grow in small bundles about the middle of the branches, rather upright; blossoms nearly cylindrical, tapered to the base, f...
3. Part 3HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom; blossoms tubular bell-shaped, purple; flowers grow in whorls, from the insertion of the leaves, nearly terminal and hanging down;...
4. Part 4HEATH with beardless tips, without the blossom; shaft without; flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves in terminal bunches, blossoms nearly globular, small, smooth and fle...
5. Part 5HEATH with bearded tips, within the blossom; shaft without; flowers terminate the branches by threes; cup double, white; blossoms oblong-egg-shaped, of a very clear white, and n...
6. Part 6LEAVES chiefly in sixes, very crowded, linear, about an inch long, obscurely pubescent when magnified, furrowed beneath; the older ones, recurved, but beyond the middle incurved...
7. Part 7HEATH, with beardless tips, without the blossom, and very long. Blossom club-shaped, and turned inwards, furrowed, and of a deep scarlet-colour. Flowers grow mostly by threes, t...
8. Part 8HEATH with bearded tips, just without the blossom; shaft without the blossom, curved at the end; blossoms tubularly club-shaped, downy, blood-coloured, squared at the base, gree...