Identifier: voyageinsearchof01labi (find matches)
Title: Voyage in search of La Pérouse : performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Labillardière, Jacques Julien Houton de, 1755-1834
Subjects: La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788 Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d', 1737-1793 Voyages and travels Natural history
Publisher: London : Printed for John Stockdale
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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made, w^hen already in avery advanced flage of confumption, a long andfatiguing journey, in which he had more confultedliis fcientific zeal than the f3:ate of his health. This new genus naturally ranks in the thirdfe6tion of the cynarocephales. (Jufs. gen. plant.) The common calix is compofed of feveral ob-tufe foliol*, fcarious at their extremities, of equallenG:th, and difpofed in a fmgle row; it indolesfeveral diftin^ calices, each of which is fupportedby a veryfiiort peduncle. Each of the fmall ca-lices is compofed of five or fix foliol^, and con-tains five or fix floriolse, all hermaphrodite, andprovided w^ith fheaths of nearly the fame lengthwith themfelves. The fioriol^ are Inflated at their fuperior extre-jnity, and divided into five equal divifions. Five diftind: filaments, attached to the infideof the corolla, fupport the fame number of an-thcrse, united in the form of a cylinder. The flyle is filiform, and of an equal heightV^ith the ilamina.- The ftigma is bipartite. ^ The
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^fc/xtr (/Arffcir -fiii-^/jI.SforM.,/e. nc^.xdc/ir. IJ^.^/<r,r. ,,„„ May.) of la perouse. 233 The feed is oval, covered with a light dov^^n,and has at the top twelve or fourteen hairy tufts. On account of the colour of the leaves of thisplant 1 have called it rtchea glauca. The floweris of a brimllone-yellow colour. Explanation of the Figures in Plate XVI. Fig. 1. The plant. Fig. 2. The flower feen from behind, fo as todlftinguiih the common calix. Ftg, 3. One of the fmall calices, with its flo-riola. Fig. A. One of the floriola with its feed. Fig. 5. The fame feen through a magnifyingglals. Fig. 6. Floriola, divided longitudinally, to fliewthe ftamina. Fig. /. The fame feen through a magnifyingglafs. One of the officers of the Recherche, followinga beaten path made by the favages through thew^oods, met fix of them walking flowiy towardsthe fouth, who wxre all flark-naked, and armedwith javelins fixteen or eighteen feet in length.Their furprifc at fo unexpected a rencounter was

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