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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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yx like a prism,and five-toothed ; corolla gaping, with the upper lip folded backat the sides ; stigma thick ; capsule two-celled, many-seeded. Named from the Greek for an ape, as the seeds resemblethe face of a monkey. M. moscliatus, the Musk plant, isoften introduced into the greenhouse or room on account ofits scent. It requires rather peculiar treatment, wanting agreat deal of water, but not being able to bear much sun.In autumn it dies down, when the plant should be kept fromfrost and watered, and in the spring, if put into a warmplace, it re-appears. It should have rich mould. PENTSTEMON. Gen. Char. (Didynamia Angiospermia.) Calyx five-leaved; co-rolla two-lipped, ventricose; fifth filament longer than the rest,and bearded at the upper end; capsule compressed, two-celled,two-valved, seeds numerous. Named from the Greek for five and stamen, there beingfive stamens, though only four are fertile. P. Gordonii is acharming species for the greenhouse, but it will bear plant- Hate, IV.
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ith. P eastern on Gordoni IfirLceat, Brooks ^mj. SCKOPHULAEIACEJE. 233 ing out in the summer, as it is from the Rocky Mountains;the flowers are very numerous, large, and of a rich blue;the tube of the corolla funnel-shaped, v^ntricose above, thelimb two-lipped, the upper cut into two short, erect lobes,lowrer into three, reflexed, deeper ones, of which the middleis the smallest; this plant should not have much water, andthe root should be kept dry in the winter: it flowrers in June.P. cordifolius is a native of California; it has bright scarletflowers and copious foliage, and will bear putting out in thesummer, but requires protection before the frosts appear; itlooks remarkably well in the greenhouse, where it is easilykept up by cuttings. A rich, light loam suits them. VERONICA. Gen. Char. (JDiandria Monogynia.) Flowers inferior; corollamonopetalous, irregular, four-cleft, flattish, the lowest segmentthe narrowest; capsule two-celled. A name said to have been altered from betonica,

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