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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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open, with the chives in their place. A half ripe feed-pod. The Pointal, with the fummit detached and magnified. A tipe feed-veffel, cut tranfverfely. About the year 1 86, this plant was fent by Mr. F. Maffon, to the royal gardens at Kew; as we findit in the catalogue of that collection. Neverthelefs a (ingle plant of it was not to be found in any ofour botanic gardens, for tliefe few years back; until the recent introduction of it, by Mr. Nivcn, tothe Hibbertian Collection in 17S9. It is a very delicate fhrub; grows to the height of eighteen inches;branching but little, and producing moftly two flowers at the termination of each branch. It maybe increafed by cuttings, or from the feed, which ripens in this country; but, like moft of the fpeciesof this genus, it is not a long lived plant. It approves moft of a light fandy peat, with a fmall mix-ture of loam; and to be kept in rather a fmall pot, in proportion to the general fize ufed for plantsof the lame bignefs. Flowers in July. Ou\
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/v/a/A&n&mia . ______^__ PLATE CCLXXIV. ORNITHOGALUM LACTEUM. Large JVliite-floivered Star of Bethlehem. CLASS VI. ORDER I.HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 6-petala, ere&a, perfiftens, fupra me-dium patens. Filamenta ban dilatata.Capfula 3-locularis. Semina fubrotunda,nuda. Blossom 6-petals, upright,, remaining, fpread-ing above the middle. Threads widened atthe bafe. Capfule 3-celled. Seeds round-ifli, naked. See Ornithogalum odoratum. PI. CCLX.Vol. IV. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ornithogalum racemo longo; filamentis fubu-latis, alternis fub-lanceolatisj bnzfteis mem-branaceis, ovatis, pedunculo duplo bre-vioribus; foliis lanceolatis, acutis, ad orasvillofis; floribus albidis. Star of Bethlehem with a long flower fpike;threads awl-fhaped, alternate ones nearlylance-fhaped; flower props fkinny, egg-fhapcd, twice as fliort as the fruit-flalk;leaves lance-fhaped, acute, finely haired atthe edges; flowers white. REFERENCE TO THE PLAT

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