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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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ced in a ray about the ftem,and lying on the ground; cups of one leaf,the fegments erect; flowers with five fertilechives, very large and yellow; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Cup laid open, to (hew its hollow ftructure. 2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize. 3. The Chives fpre.ad open, to lhew the number and fituation of the fertile ones.-1. The Pointal, magnified. The only plants of this fpecies of Geranium are to be found in the Clapham collection; they wereamong the lafl, received by Mr. Hibbert from the Cape, in 1801. To affix any particular period asthe exact feafon of its flowering, would be premature; as, the plant from which our figure was taken,in the month of Augutt, laft year, had been kept conftantly in the. green-houfe; and, we muft pre-fume, as the root arrived nearly dry, the regular feafon of its flowering muft have been materiallyaltered. It appears to flourifh in a light fandy foil. The propagation muft be from llie feeds, or fromthe root. @>eti
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I ih/in////// BS& PLATE CCXXIII. CLUSIA FLAVA. Yellow-flowered Balfam- Tree. CLASS XXIII. ORDER I. POLYGAMIA MONOECLL Various difpofitions. Upon one plant. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx. PeriantMum imbricatum; foliolis con- cavis, peififtentibus, exterioribus gradatim minoribus.Corolla. Petala 4, 5, 6, fubrotunda concava, cralfa, cochleata.Stamina. Filamenta plura, fimplicia, corolla breviora. Antherae iimplices, apicis lateri adnatae.Pistillum. Germen ovato-oblongum. Stylus nullus. Stigma stellatum, planum, obtu- fum, perfiftens.Pericarpium. Capfula ovata, fulcis exerata, locularis, valvis turn radiatim dehifcentibus. Semina numerofa, ovata, pulpa obtecta, affixareceptaculo columnari, angulolb.Oh. Numerus in parte fructus differt a qua-tuor ad duodecim proportione obfervata inftigmate, valvulis, loculis, &c. Flores alii aparte mafculina, alii a feminina denies Cunt. Empalement. Cup tiled; leaflets concave, re-maining, the outer ones gradually fmalli r. Blossom. Petals 4, 5, 6, rou

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