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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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ft-ance of the Hct-houfe. It lofes its foliage after flowering, and remains in a ftate of inaction for atlea ft three months; during which period, it ihould be watered but feldom, and that fparingly. Topropagate it, the only mode is, by cutting fmall portions of the root ofF, and putting them into theftrong hec.t of a hot-bed, about the month of March ; as hitherto, it has not perfected any feeds withus, and the plant produces no branch, except the flower-ftem may be fo denominated. Our drawingwas made from the Clapham Collection, in July, this year. This fpecies has been confidered bv Pro-feffor Martyr), (fee his edition of Mill. Diet, article Pelargonium 2.) as the fame with G. pinnatum,and G. prolificum of Linn. Sp. Plan. But, however, the fpecific characters in Linnaeus, of thofe fpecies,may agree with our figure, the G. Aftragalifolium of Jacquin and Cavanilles, they are, unqueftionably,all different plants; drawings of the two former we have, and will be given in due courfe. I!,
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,i.,/rti</ti/t/e(i</ in PLATE CXCI. PLATYLOBIUM SCOLOPENDRUA!. Scolope?ulra-like Jiemmed Flat-Pea. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads in two Sets. Ten Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx. Perianthium, campanulatum quinque- dentatum ; laciniis tribus inferioribus acu- tis, patentibus; duabus lupremis maximis, obtufis, obovatis, vexillo adpreflis.Cokolla papilionacea. Fexillum, obcordatum, emarginatum, erec- tum, maximum. Al<e vexillo breviores, obtufae, femi-obcor- dataj, bafi denticulataa. Carina obtufa, compreffa, longitudine et figura alarum.Stamina filaments decern, coalita in vaginam, fupra femifhfam, apice libera, acqualia, alfurentia. Antheiae fubrotundae, verfa- tiles.Pistillum. Germen lineare, pilofum. Stylus incurvatus, glaber. Stigma (implex.Pericarpium. Legumen pedicellatum, com- prelfum, obtufum, inucronaturn, unilocu- lare, dovfo alatuni.Semina, plurima, comprcffa, reniformia. Empalement. Cup bell-fhaped, fire-toothed; the three lower fegments pointe

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