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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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ellata has been cultivated in England fince the year 1/77, at which time it was firltraifed from feeds; received from the Cape of Good Hope by Mellrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith,at whofe nurfery our figure was taken in the month of Auguft 1800. It is a very hardv plant, andnot at all fubjeft to the very common fate of its congeners; that is, to damp in the leaves, or rot atthe root in winter; is propagated by cuttings, to Le made in the month of April or May, and treated asdirected for the other Proteas. The plant feldom grows higher than three feet, and does not makemariy branches; but is of a lively green colour, both leaves and ftem. We have, as ufual, adopted thename this plant is generally known by, it having been lb named by the younger Linnaeus in his Suppl.Plant. 118, and by Thunberg in his Dilfertatio de Protea, n. 34, and his Prodromus 26. But whyor how a fmall, clofe head of flowers may be denominated an umbel we muft confefs our ignorancein this application of terms. !P/
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/r//■///! L PLATE CCXLIX. PITCAIRNIA SULPHUREA.Sulphur-coloured Pitcairnia. CLASS VI. ORDER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. GENERICCalyx. Perianthium monophyllum, femi-fupe- rum, tubulofum, bafi ventricofum, trifidum, perfiftens; laciniis lanceolatis, ere&is.Corolla tubulata, calyce duplo longior, mar- ceffens, trifida, demum tripetala; lacinise lineari-oblongae, fubere&ae.Stamina. Filamenta fex, filiformia. Antherae oblongae, erectae.Pjstillum Germen fuperum, ovato-trique- trum. Stylus filiformis longitudine ftami- num. Stigmata tria, contorta.Pekicarpium. Capfula ovatis, obtufe trique- tra, trilocnlaris; loculis fub-cylindraceis, fub-diflinc5tis.Semina numerofa, alata, linearis. HARACTER. Empalement. Cup one leafed, half fuperior,tubular, fwelling at the bafe, three-cleft;fegments lance-fhaped, ere£L Blossom tubular, twice the length of the cup,withering, three-cleft, at laft three petalled;fegments linearly-oblong, nearly upright. Chives. Threads fix, th

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