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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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me, magnified. 3. A Flower. •1. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize.5. The fame magnified. The Snowberry-tree is a native of Jamaica, and fome of the other Weft India iflands; requiring thetemperature of the hothoufe to preferve it; growing to the height of four or five feet; but the Itembeing too weak to fupport itfelf, muft be aflifted. It is propagated by cuttings, and delights in arich foil. We are informed in Millers Dictionary, treating of this plant, that it was introduced tous, in the year l2o,, by Mr. Warner, of London; and that it was cultivated, in the garden of Mr.Sherard, at Eltham, about that time. The root of this plant is ufed medicinally, and has a verybitter, acrid tafte. It is a very free blowing plant, flowering the firft year from the cuttings; butbut never produces its fine white berries in this country, which conftitute its greater! beauty, andwhence its generic title. Our figure was made from a plant in the Hammerfmith Collection. Flowersin September. ■™
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f/< ■ i PLATE CCLXXXV. FERRARIA VIRIDIFLORA. Green-jlowerecl Ferraria. CLASS XVI. ORDER I.MONADELPHIA TRIAXDRIA. Threads united. Three Chives. Monogyna. Spathae uniflorse.Petala fex, undulato-crifpata. Stigmata cucullata. Capfula 3-locularis, intera. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. One Pointal. Sheaths one-flowered.Petals fix, waved and crifped. Summit-; cowled. Capfule three-celled beneath.See Ferb aria Pavonia,P1.CLXXVIII.Vo1.III. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ferraria foliis difiichis, vaginantibus, coftatis;petalis lanceolatis aequalibus, interioribusimrnaculatis, anguftioribus, virefcentibus. Ferraria with leaves pointing oppofite waysfheathing the ftem and ribbed ; petals lance-fhaped, equal, the inner ones without fpots,narrower and greenifh. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Seed bud, Chives and Pointal. 2. One of the Chives, a little magnified, as feen from the infide. 3. The fame feen from the outfide. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summits, the Chives removed. 5. One of the Summits magnif

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