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ALPHABETICAL INDEX
TO THE
FIGURES IN VOL. III.
COLOURED
ENGRAVINGS
OF
HEATHS.[Pg 2]
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. III.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, NO. 5, KNIGHTSBRIDGE.
Printed by R. Taylor and Co. 38, Shoe Lane.
1809
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DISSERTATION concluded.
At the commencement of this Monograph the extent of this elegant tribeof plants appeared to be circumscribed within a small compass, and wecalculated upon one volume enshrining the whole Genus. The terminationof that volume left a residuum of sufficient magnitude to complete asecond, at whose termination an ample fund for continuation was stillapparent. A third is finished; and there yet remains enough to form afourth, the conclusion of which will, we think, contain all that are asyet in cultivation with us, as the limits of this extensive familyappear at present to be bounded within three hundred species anddistinct varieties; and unless some new source should be found to extendit, by the discovery of some unexpected mine of novelty, it may be thenconsidered as for a time completed; although, no doubt, from thebeautiful variations occasionally raised from seed, there will be stillfurther accessions of novelty to merit attention at some future period,by way of appendix.
When the author first began to delineate the Erica family in the year1794, the greater part of the species then known had been so recentlyimported, that the seeds did not ripen with us. A period of fifteenyears having since elapsed, many of them have become so far naturalizedas to perfect their seed freely. The prevalent idea of their notripening with us is owing to a want of sufficient attention to preservethem; for, as soon as the seeds are perfect, if not immediatelycollected, the capsule splits, and the seeds, which are extremely small,escape unperceived.
The fourth volume will contain, in addition to each figure, a shortaccount of who first raised it, &c., and at the end of the volume (whichthe author trusts will be completed in much less time than the foregoingone