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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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wny. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Flower complete. 2. The BloiTom fpread open, with the Chives in their place. 3. The fame, magnified. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit. The Oppofite-leaved Gnidiahoufe or dry flove plant; asCummer, much rain, if it ismentions this fpecies to haveto the height of three feet, wable height from the earth, wmixture of two-thirds ioam,tings, made in the month ofplant in the Hibbertian Colic is from the Cape of Good Hope, and muft be treated as a tender green-, but a little excefs of wet, in the winter, is fore to deliroy it: even inexpofed to it for a few days, will overwhelm it. The Kew Cataloguebeen introduced in the year 1788, by Mr. F. Malfon. The plant growsith a very flender Hera, and, often, lofes moft of its leaves to a confider-hich gives it rather a difagreeable appearance towards the lower part. Aand one of landy peat, is a foil it molt approves. It is increafed by cut-April, from the tender fhoots. Our figure was taken in July, from action. (PL
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