Identifier: botanicalregiste04edwa (find matches)
Title: The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Floriculture Botany
Publisher: (London : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ractes shorter thanthe peduncles, membranous, whitish, acuminate. Corollafronting the horizon, succulent, tender, soon collapsing,more than an inch in diameter, subrotate; segrnents nottouching each other above, oblong, obtuse, bent inwardsat the top, whitish, on the outside and at the top suffusedin part with a dullish brown purple, traversed longitudi-nally by a green stripe deeply keeled on the outside. Sta-mens twice shorter than the corolla, equal smooth, slightlydeclined:^7amewi.s subulate: anthers deep yellow, upright,widely dehiscent at the ends. Pistil about equal to thecorolla: germen oblong, prism-shaped, with two-ribbedcorners: sttjle purplish, thickish, linearly three-cornered,declined, rising again with a gentle curve: stigma hollow,open, slightly trifid, pubescent. There are some slight discrepancies between our plantand Jacquin s figure and description of the pistil, which wesuspect arise from an oversight in the draughtsman, ratherthan that they are real distinctions.
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312 MORiEA luiida.Mr. Griffins Morcjea. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord, Eksat^. Lin. Ord, nat, VI. Nobis in Ann. of Bot. 1. 219.Irides. Jussieu gen. 57. Iride^. Brouon prod. 302. MORMA. Inflor. pauci-pluriflora, fasciculata, spathis communi bi-valvi involutis distincta; rard uniflora, rarius in spicam educta. Cor.supera, erecta, involuto-decidua, hexapetalo-partita s. tubuloso-sexfida,laciniis obversis, rotatis s. inferne conniventibus, alternis consimilibus; exterioribus ungue saepe barbato, ssepe foveola ad basin, lamina nunquamerecta; interioribus angustioribus, rard minimis v. nullis, interdiam omninderectis. Stylus triquetro-filiformis, erectus, liberus. Stig. 3, petaliformia,trifaria antice fornicata, postice carinata, bilabiata labio interiore bifidoreflexo exterius breve retusum multoties v. ferme non excedente: rarolineari-radiata, bipartita, segmentis convoluto-filiformibus. Fil. coroUaeV. limbi disco imposita, libera s. partim v. omnind connata. Anth. erectae,extrorsae, line

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