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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n diameter, rotately cam-panulate. Outer calyx three-leaved, as short again as theinner one, leaflets linearly lanceolate, flat: inner one hdlio-cleft hirsute, segments ovately acuminated. Petals notmuch longer than the calyx, touching each other by theirsides without lapping over; lamina or broad part oblately.round, veined, subcrenately eroded at the upper margin, ofa deeper red at the base; unguis short, whitish, slightlyvillous, ciliate. Column of stamens about J shorter than thecorolla, whitish, nearly naked, having only a few pencilledor stellated hairs, marked with 5 crimson stains betweenthe petals at the base, bearing the anthers in a tuft at theupper part: anthej^s reniform, blackish purple, shagreened;pollen of smooth ash-coloured globular grains, clotted..Styles 12? rosy-crimson, filiform, protruded beyond thestamens; stigma a pale terminal glandular papilla but littlewider than the style. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit-ley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham.
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297 MALVA calycina.Broad-cupped Mallow, MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nfit. ord. Malvaceje. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. II. Stam. in tuburacorolliferum connata, indefinita. Fructus multicapsularis; capss. verticil-Jatac, in orbem dispositae aut in unara compactae. MAL VA, Snp aJbL 295. Div. Foliis snhindivisis.M. calycina, foliis cordatis crenatis indivisis piloso-hispidis, floribus solltariislonge pedunculatis, calyce exteriore maximo. Cavan. diss. 2. 81. 22. Malva calycina. Thunh. prod. 118. JViIld. sp. ipl. 3. 777. Frutex interdum subbiorgi/aliSi ramosiis, subviscoso-hirsutus, cortice scEp^rubescente. Vo\. tindique sparWy remotiuscula, cordatUy virentia, parumlongiora quam lata subsesquiuncialia v. ultra, hirsuta, rugosa, subtus varicoso-venosa, crenato-dentata, obsolete sinuata, suprema non adidta sublobata;petiolus brevior lamina. Stipulae 2 breves, ovatce, obtiisiusculce, supra convexcB. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, \-Jlori, longiores peiiolo, hirti,.foliolo ad basin stipati. Flores obl

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