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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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s, fpreading, equal.Summits three, nearly upright, fpreading.See Ixia reflexa, PI. XIV. Vol I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis linearibus, fcapo vaginantibus; fcapusgeniculatus, fubtriflorus; laciniis corolla;obovatis, lineato-pun&atis, purpureis. Ixia with linear leaves fheathing the Item; flower-item jointed, moltly three flowered; feg-ments of the blolVbm inverfely egg-fliaped,dotted in lines, and purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two valves of the (heath. 2. A BlolTom cut open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; a divihon of one of the fummits magnified. This curious Ixia was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1800, by G. Hibbert,Efq. and is, we believe, in the pofiefhon of no other in this kingdom. It is a tender bulb, floweringabout April, or May, and appears, either by the bulb, or feed, to be flow of increafe. The bulb,from which our figure was taken, was planted in light, fandy peat earth. k ^Y, 77 /ir,i ///•/ ur/ii/<i
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PLATE FERRARIA Mexican CLXXVIII. PAVONIA. Ferraria. CLASS XVI.MONJDELPHIA TRIANDRIA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx. Spathae binae, alternas, carinatae, invo-lute, uniflorae. Corolla monopetala, fupera, fexpartita; laci-niis oblongis, ereclo-patentibus, undulato-crifpatis, maculatis; tribus alternis exteri-oribus latioribus. Stamina. Filament a tria, in tubum cylindra-ceum, corolla breviorem, connata, kipernedittincla. Antherae fubovata;, didymae. Pistillum. Germen oblongum, triquetrum,obtufum, inferum. Stylus filiiormis, Ion-gitudine tubi. Stigmata tria,- profunde bifida. Pericarpium. Capfulaoblonga, triquetra, tri-locularis, trivalvis ; diffepimentis contrariis. Semina numerofa, fubrotunda, pulpa involuta. SPECIFIC Ferraria corollisfub campanulatis, fpeciorifiimis;laciniis planis, tribus interioribus haftatis,neclariferis; foliis plicatis, bail fpathaceis. ORDER I. Threads united. Three Chives. Sckreb. Gen. Plant. V. II. />. 451.Sheaths two, alternate, keeled, Empalement. involute, one

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