Identifier: botanicalregiste04edwa (find matches)
Title: The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Floriculture Botany
Publisher: (London : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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lyx or more: sti/le aboutthe length of the germen or longer, round, ending in anarrowly cuneate transversely flattened stigma with adowny edged truncated top, rather concave at the underside. Pod about half a foot long, smooth, brown, linearlyelongated, compressedly squared, not much broader at thesides that at the upper and under parts, with corners finingoff to an even shallowly projecting undulated coriaceo-car-tilaginous edge, the sides flat and even, end acuminatedand pointed by a part of the persistent style, many-celledand entirely smooth on the inside, divided into one-Seeded compartments by partitions of a membrano-cellularsubstance. Seeds 13, according to Plumier and Mr. Her-bert, not much bigger than a common pea, and of abrownish yellow or tawny hue. ft The standard or vexillura. b One of the two wings or alae. c Thesimple stamen, d The 9-cleft stamen, e The two partial bractes whichenclose and conceal the calyx. ^The calyx, g The germen and part ofthe style, h The stigma.
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269 GALACTIA pendula.Brownes Galactia, DIADELPHIA DECJNDRIA. Nat. ord. Leguminos.e. Jussie?i gc?i. 345. Dii\ V. Cor. irregularispapilonacea. Legum. l-loc, 2-valve. GALACTIA. Cal. 4-dentatas, 2-bracteatus. Cor. 5-petala, petalisomnibus oblongis; vexillo caeteris latiore, incumbente. Stigma obtusum.Legum. teres. Sem. subrotunda. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 61. ° G.pendula, foliis ternatis, racemo erecto, floribus pendulis. Persoon sun.2. 302. Clitoria Galactia. Linn, sp, pi. 2. 1026, Willd. sp, pi. 3. 1070. Hort,Keiv. ed. 2. 4. 301. Galactia foliis ovatis glabris pinnato-ternatis, spicis elongatis terminalibus. Browne jam. 298. t. 32. fg. 2.Phaseolus minor lactescens, flore purpureo. Sloane jam. 1. 188. 114. Frutex lactescens? orgyalis w idtra, appresse villosus, ramis lignosisvolubilibus teretibus. Fol. alterne distantia, ternata, scepe deflexa, Jirma r.duriuscula, subtiis et ad petioles villosa, supra glabra; foliola ovato-oblonga,reticidato-venosa, terminate muticum subunciale, lateralia

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