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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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be treated as a tender hot-houfe plant. It grows, with us, to the lieight of about twofeet before it flowers; and, from the beauty and fize of the leaves, the regular, eppofite manner inwhich it forms its branches, becomes a very handfome fhrub. The flowers, which are produced inJuly, grow generally three together, at right angles, from the infertion of the leaves, in a bunch,which lafts about fix or eight days, having but one flower open and perfect at a time, the decayingones becoming brown. It is propagated, with eafe, by cuttings, made in the month of March, andkept under a bell-glafs, in a pot of ftitfifh loam, in the bark-bed of the hot-houfe, or a melon frame.The agreeable character, of a delicate fragrance, attendant on the bloffoms of moll fpecies of this ge-nus, is eminently powerful in this. Our drawing was made at the Hammerlmith nurfery; where, itwas firft raifed, from feeds received in a prefent, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, from the Hon. SierraLeone Company. &>/*
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rnut (ta,/tc. PLATE CLXXXIV. ERGULARIA M I N O Smaller Pcrgularia, or Weft-coaft Creeper. R. CLASS XX. ORDER VI. of Linn. Gen. Plan. 1764.GYNJNDRIJ DECJNDR1A. Chives on the Pointal. Ten Chives. GENERICCalyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque-fidum, erectum, aculum, perfiflens. Corolla monopetala, hypocrateriformis; tubuscylindricus, calyce longior; limbus quin-quepartitus, planus; laciniis oblongis.Nectarium, duplex; exterium quinque-fidum, quinqoedentatum, plicato-angula-tum, dentibus acutis, incurvis, apice cor-niculis nutantibus, approximatis ; interiumquinquendum,exteriori bafi adnatum.fqua-mulae membranaceae, apice denticulate, ob-tvifae, fingula involvens (lamina duo, alterna. Stamina. Filamenta decern, capillaria. brevia,divaricata, perparia adnexa glandulis quin-que ftigmati affixis. Anthera; pellucidae,luteae, fubrotundse. Pistillum. Germina duo oblonga. Stylusbreviflimus, camolus. Stigma corpulculumconicutij, obtufum, carnolum. Pericarpium. Folliculi duo, uniloculares, in-tro

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