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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
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itemlefs, not including the G. trifle, G. lobatum,or G. prolificum; and of which, although we have given many figures, we ftill poflefs drawings of18 handfome fpecies, befides numberlefs varieties. It was introduced in 1/88 by Meflrs. Lee andKennedy; is a hardy greenhoufe plant, being lefs fubjeft to rot, after the decay of the leaves, thanany of its congeners; flowers freely about June, and is propagated by the root; the feed (fometimes)ripens likewife. Our figure was taken from a plant, whofe root had been received at the ClaphamGarden, in 1800. As all the plants figured in the Botaniils Repolitory, are titled with the com-monly accepted names, if any, in England; and, as many have been given under different names, infome other publications, whence much confufion; we (hall defer all attempt at fynonim, till the endof this Volume, when a copious Index Synonimorum will be published, of all the plants figured in thework, for the ufe of thole who wifli for fuch authorities. ®t. B*>
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(/en/ /,</( m -,r/fu///i/ / PLATE CCXL. GLADIOLUS CARNEUS. Fie Iih-coloured Gladiolus. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla fexpartita, ringens.Stamina adfcendentia. Blossom fix divifions, gaping.Chives alcending. See Gladiolus roseus, PI. 11. Vol.1. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis enfiformibus, coftatis, glabris;floribus fecundis, cernuis, carneis; petalistribus fuperioribus divergentibus, inferio-ribus fupra medium punitatis. Gladiolus with fword-fhaped leaves, ribbed, andfmooth; flowers pointing one way, noddingand fleih-coloured; the three upper petalsdiverge, the three lower are dotted uponthe middle. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two valves of the fheath. 2. The Blolfom fpread open, with the Chives in their place. 3. The Tointal, complete. Our prefent plant has a nigh affinity with G. communis, and indeed might, perhaps, be confideredas a variety of it; but, as upon a clofe examination this will be foun

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