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Title: The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Andrews, Henry Charles, fl. 1799-1828 Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760-1835, printer Haworth, Adrian Hardy, 1768-1833 Kennedy, John, 1759-1842 Jackson, George, d. 1811 Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI
Subjects: Plants, Cultivated Botany Flowers
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ... : To be had of J. White, Fleet-street, and all the booksellers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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he removal of it toits proper one, the fifth. It is true, he had reafon to fuppofe, that no man would be ralh enough toform a new Genus, without a due examination of the plant, on which he grounds his authority; andthat, as Thunberg had discovered and named it, his authority was fufficient, and of greater weightthan any other. But, unfortunately, in this infiance, for the tranfcriber, the defcriber has been mif-taken, and has led his followers into error. Indeed, the whole plant in its habit and character has lblittle affinity to any hexandrous genus, that, although Thunberg might have found a finglt, flower, oreven a whole plant, whofe flowers had fix chives (a circumflance we have not been able to difcover,upon an examination of the flowers from four different plants), in fuch a cafe, as a botanift, he oughtto have looked farther, before he made fo violent a decifion; and Willdenow ought to have taken itfor granted the alteration would not have been made, but upon due confederation.
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