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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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their whole length, with bloflbms.Although this is mt to be reckoned amongit the handlbmeft of the productions of that country, yet,from the lively colour of the flowers, the profufion of tin m whi< h the plant produces, and their con-tinued fuqeeflion, from April, till Septembi r, it mult be confidered as a valu ible addition to the imallnumber of fcandent plants, as yet in our a een houfi - •. m ire particularly at the prefent juncture, when,from fafhion, a trellis lus become a necelfai to tht m. It is propagated from the feeds, which ripen in this country; as well as fro n , which mould lie made in May, and kept in the heal of a cucumber-frame, or hot-houle, till they are rooted. It is grown bell in Candy peat.Our figure was taken at the Hanmierfmith Nurfery, wh< re it was full, railed in this kingdom. Thename, Pogonia, is derived from the appearance of the mouth of the flower vhkli is bearded:Har/umoy, Pogonion, fignifying a little 1 i ird. &L m if■//</ ,/ff-to.j
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T tSf (6-//A ■I PLATE CCXIII. IXIA COLUMNAR1S. /•„, latma. Columnar-clllxcd Ixia. Broad-ltaved var. CLASS III. ORDER I.TRIANDRIA MONOC1VXIA. Three Chives. OnePointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata I Blossom G-petals, fpreading, equal. Summits tria, ereaiufculo-patula. three, upright-fpreading. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia filamentis bafi odhserentibusj florions Tub- l; Ixia with threads cohering at the bafe; flowerscapitatis; corollispallide caeruleis; foliis la- grow nearly in heads, bloflbms pale-blue; tioribus, falcatis. leaves broader, fcymitar fliaped. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Einpalemer.t. 2. A BlolTom cut open, with the chives remaining attached. 3. The Tube of a blollbm, with the chives, the petals cut off. 4. The fame, cut open and magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; the fummits detached and magnified. The variety here given, was introduced to England, with the changeable-flowered variety, in 1T99,from Holland. It

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