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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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we have one at laft, whole Jcrutinixing eye //«« been al-le to make out all Linnieuss and evenT/iunlergs fpecies. This elucidation, ot fo intricate a lubject, by a perfon whole knowledge ofliving plants, we fear, does n >t had him, fcarcel<, to an acquaintancefhip with the difference of face ina Plane from a Poplar, mutt be matter of infinite moment, to thole, who wi/h to become acquaintedwith the plants they cultivate; and the frrull trouble, to moll perfons, of learning new, and outlinethe old names for plants, which have been long rivctted to the memory by habitual ule, will be amplycompenfated, by the pleafureof novelty, which muft neceflarily refult, from the certain alteration infome part of the title, of every plant which lias hitherto, oris to come under, this learned judgesdictatorial fiat. Our opinions, as do our labours, run counter to thefe new fafhions, of rendering adifficult fcience eufy; and our road muft ftill be in the old track of the triflcr Lrnnxue. J (,w
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PLATE CXCIII. GERANIUM LINE ARE. hinear-petalled Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monogyna. Stigmata quinque.Fructus roftratus, 5-coccus. One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furnifhed with long awns; five dry berries.See Geranium Grandiflorum, PI.XII.Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis lanceolatis, obtufis, fubfinu-atis; petalis fuboequalibus, liuearibus; flo-ribus pentandris; radice tuberofa. Geranium with leaves lauce-fhaped, obtufe,and a little icolloped at the edges; petalsnearly equal, linear; flowers with five fer-tile chives; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its hollow ftrudlure. 2. The Chives and Pointal natural fize. 3. The Chives fpread open, magnified. 4. The Pointal, magnified. This is another of thofe curious tuberous Geraniums, which have been introduce*, to this country,by Mr. Niven ; who was fent to the Cape of Good Hope by G. Hibbert, Efq. for th

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