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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e, lower one 3-flowered, upper ones 1-flowered,several times shorter than the corolla. Flowers an inchand half long, some with only stamens, some with sta-mens and pistil, viscously tpmentose, tricoloured, the reddots predominating in the hue. Cali/x membranous palerthan the corolla, cyHndrical, somewhat swollen, 3 timesshorter than the 2 longest petals, 5-toothed, teeth short,broad, unequal, rounded, one larger than the rest. Corolla4-petalled, varicosely veined, dotted with minute darkpurple viscous glands: 2 outer petals opposite, upright,equalling the ungues of the two interior ones, with a cordateround pointed lamina: 2 inner petals upright, connivent,linearly spatulate, with a small obcordately round laminaslanting forwards. Stamens 7, inclosed, the length of theshorter petals, unequal; filaments woolly haired: antherswith orange-coloured pollen. Pistil equal to the stamen^:gennen oblong, hirsute, white: sti/le thicker than the fila-ments, covered with a purple downy pubescence.
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311 ALBUCA fugax. FugaciouSJlowered Alhuca^ HEXANDRIA MONOQYNIA. Nat ord, AsFHOn^Li. Jussieu gen, 51. Div, IV, AsPHODELEiE. Broxvu jjrod, 27^*ALB UCA. Siiprhfol, 277. Div. Corollis cequaliter patentibus,A.JtigaXy foliis numerosis, subtrigono-filiformibus, subulatis, duplo brevio- ribus scapo, erectis: stylo declinato, curvo.Anthericum fragrans. Jacq. hort, schcenb. I. 45. t, 86. Willd, sp. pi, 2. 135, Hort. Kevo. ed, 2. 2. 266. Bulbus siibrotundus, compacto-squamosus, sordescens, Fol. numerosa,eredOpatula, Jasciculato-ambientia, carnosa, semitereti-linearia, subulata,obsolete et obtuse subtrigona, kmc planiora, recta, semipedalia^ crassitudineJere pennce corvince, non glauca, vagina radicali nulla, Scapus pedalisultra, teres, erectus, glaucus, plurimum crassior foliis, racemo terminali,laxiusculo, multifloro, patente, semipedali v, ultra. Pedunculi patentesybreviores Jlore, semunciales, Bracteee breviores pedmtculis, membranacece^albicantes, acuminatce. Cor. horizontem respiciens, suc

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