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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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g of the young branches. This appears to be the matter requiring mostattention in its culture, and it should be very closely looked after in this respect. VOL. IX. NO. CVI. F F 218 RONDELETIA LONGIPLORA. With regard to other particulars, it may be potted in a mixture of sandy loamand heath-mould, of almost equal parts, with the addition, perhaps, of a little loaf-soil. Kept in a moderately warm stove, and not stinted for pot-room, it will soonattain a flourishing condition, and may be retained in health by a continuance ofthe same treatment. Cuttings of the younger wood will root, with some tardiness, under a shadedhand-glass, in the stove; and the pots containing them had better be plunged in atolerably strong hotbed. From the extreme beauty and profusion of its flowers, it is likely to acquireconsiderable popularity. Our drawing was made from Messrs. Veitchs plant, inJuly last. Rondeletia is named after William Rondelet, a noted physician, and lover ofnatural history, of Montpelier.
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S.Eoldeii. deLALitK\ yiL CeJe^/Tt tA-^yC^frCoi MESEMBRYANTHEMUM TRICOLOR. Class. ICOSANDRIA. (Three-coloured flowered Mesembryanthemum.) Natural Order. FICOIDE^. Order.DI-PENTAGYNIA. Genemc Character.—Calyx of five, rarely of two toeight sepals; sepals united to themselves and to theovarium even to the middle; lobes unequal, usuallyleaf-formed. Petals innumerable, in one, but uftenerin many series, vmited among themselves at the base.Stamens indefinite, disposed in many series, insertedwith the petals at the top of the calyx. Ovary adnateto the calyx, many-celled inside, (four to twenty,) butusually five-celled. Stigmas foiu- to twenty, but usuallyfive. Capsule many-celled, opening stellately at the apex, adnate to the permanent calyx. Seeds numerous.Embryo curved at the side of a mealy albumen. Coty-ledons thick, very blunt.—Bons Gard. and Botany. Specific Character—Plant a^nnual. Stems nearlyprostrate. Leaves long, strap-shaped, acute, green.Flowers mostly radical, solitary. P

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