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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in which raised beds exist for planting ont a few of therarer dwarf exotics. But it is essential that the aspect of the structure in whicli itis located (at lea«t for the summer) be such that the stronger rays of the sun maynever reach it. Its lovely blossoms will not endure direct sunshine, and if thehouse in which it is preserved be open to the south, it will require shading in theflowering season. Further than this, it demands no particular tendance, and might be even placedin the open border during the warmer months, could it be conveniently andpartially protected from the violence of the solar rays. It must, however, behoused in winter. A rich loamy soil, with which a little heath-inould can beblended, will form an appropriate compost; and the species is jiropagated bydivision at the roots. It should be guarded from too much dampness in winter. Iris, literally meaning the eye, is used to designate this genus from the varietyand clearness of colour in the flowers of the species.
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S2adBn,.aEh;. JLIidl ^Z?^ ^(/r/^/yn.^a/ r_ycAyet^;t^€(yn-ay. COLUMNEA SCHIEDIANA. Class. DIDYNA3IIA. (Mr. Schiede*5 Columnea.) Natural Order. GESNERACE^, Order. ANGIOSPERMIA. Generic Character. — Calyx inferior, five-parted.Corolla tubular, straightish, gibbose behind at the base,ringent; upper lip erect, arched; lower one trifid,spreading. Stamens four, didjTiamous ; anthers con-nected with the rudiment of a fifth behind. Glandsone to five, around the ovary. Berry one-celled ; pla-centas two, parietal, two-lobed. Seeds oblong.—DonsOard. and Botany. SPEcrFic Character. — Plant an evergi-een trailingshrub. Stems simple, ieaie^ oblong-lanceolate, entire,do^Tiy. Flowers solitary, axillary, on long peduncles.Calyx with five expansive, ovate-lanceolate, acute,spotted segments. Corolla large, covered with glandu-lar hairs, and variegated with dingy yellow, or cream-colour, and brown. Berry globose, white. Seedsoblong. The plant here depicted, which is not more curious than beautiful

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