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Title: Popular greenhouse botany; containing a familiar and technical description of a selection of the exotic plants introduced into the greenhouse
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Catlow, Agnes, 1807?-1889
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, L. Reeve
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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es andis found easy of culture and blossoms freely in the summer;the flowers are very numerous and of a very pale rose-co-lour, the stamens are very conspicuous, and the anthersorange-red. Besides these species there are decussata,Hendersonii, and spectabilis, pink-flowered; linifolia, glauca,etc., white-flowered ; clavata, yellow-flowered, besides seve-ral more. They all require sandy peat and not much water,and are increased by cuttings. GNIDIA. Gen. Char. (Octandria Monogynia) Calyx funnel-shaped,fouracleft, with from four to eight scale-like petals at the orifice;nut somewhat like a drupe. One of the names given by the ancients to the Daphne.Cape shrubs, suitable to the greenhouse, and having theflowrers fragrant at night. G. pinifolia, radiata, juniperi-folia, and capitata have white flowers; simplex, hiflora,stricta, and others, yellow; imberbis, imbricata, etc. straw-coloured flowers. These plants should be potted in sandypeat, and may be readily increased by cuttings. Plate EX
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THYMELACEiE. 143 LACHN^A. Gen. Char. (Octandria Monogynia.) Flowers in heads; calyxfour-cleft, with an unequal limb; filaments long, with an unequalinsertion; nut somewhat drupaceous. The heads of flowers are very woolly, whence the name,from the Greek. These are also Cape shrubs for the green-house, with the heads of flowers generally clothed in wool.The species are buxifolia and eriocephala, white, and pur-purea, purple-flowered. Soil sandy peat and loam. PASSEBINA. Gen. Char. (Octandria Digynia.) Calyx four-cleft and naked;style filiform, lateral, and long; stamens inserted on the tube;nut one, coated; seed one. Named from the Latin for sparrow, from the seedshaving an appendage like the beak of a sparrow. A genusof Cape plants for the greenhouse, of which P. grandiflora,producing a large white flower in May or June, is the mostornamental; the rest are uniflora, tenuiflora,flliformis, ca~pitata, ciliata, and others, which have either white or straw- 144 POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. colou

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Botany
  • bookpublisher:London__L__Reeve
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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