Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo09paxt (find matches)
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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house. According to the Botanical Magazine, seeds were sent from New Holland byMr. Fraser, in 1830, and communicated to the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh. It 54 TORENIA SCABRA. has since been found at Moreton Bay, and otlier warm districts of the samecountry. Among the early cultivators, it was considered an annual or biennial plant,and it now appears to be qaitc an annual in habit. In its treatment, the commonmixture of heath-soil and loam is found a suitable compost, attentioii being of coursepaid to drainage. It can be increased by cuttings, in the usual manner, and likewise, more cer-tainly by seeds, which it will generally ripen, if the upper flowers are abstracted,and only the lowermost ones left to bear seed. Plants which are wished to beornamental ought not to be suffered to produce seed, Torenia was named by Linnaeus after Olof Toren, a Swedish clergyman, whodiscovered F. asiatica, and other plants, in China. The species, scabra, is onlyscabrous on the under side of its leaves.
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S Hdden. del itlitii oSCe^fl^e^^y cc^^C^Co^t/. GESNERA DISCOLOR. (Discoloured flowered Gesnera.) Class. Order. DIDYNAIMIA. , ANGIOSPERMIA. Natural Order. GESNERACE^. Generic Character.—Calyx adnata to the ovary;limb nearly equally five-lobed, free. Corolla half-superior, tubular, with five gibbosities at the base;limb sub-bilabiate: upper lip dra^vn out, emarginatelytwo-lobed; lower lip three-lobed. Stamens didynamous,with the rudiment of a fifth behind; anthers at firstcohering into a round head. Glands five, or feweraround the ovary. Capsule dry in the calyx, one-celled,incompletely two-valved; placentas two, parietal,many, seeded. Seeds scrobiform.—Dons Gard. andBotany. Specific Character. — Plant shrubby, apparentlydeciduous, growing from eighteen inches to two feetin height. Leaves opposite, ovately cordate, finely-toothed, rugose, downy, dark green above, pinkishpurple beneath, having long petioles. Panicles of flowerswithout leaves, smooth, varnished, and, with thepedicel

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