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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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HE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, Chives, and Pointal, the bloflbm removed. 2. A Bloflbm cut on one fide, and fpread open. 3. One of the fcales of the Honey cup, with its Chive magnified. 4. The Pointal, cleared of the other parts of fructification. As an annual, this is a mod beautiful little plant; but, although the feeds have been received feveraltimes, from the Cape of Good Hope, where it is native; and firft at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in1/8, fent by Mr. F. Maflbn; yet, has it never been feen the fecond year; owing, we fuppofe, tothe impracticability of procuring ripe feeds in our climate. Perhaps future trials, by different treatment,may meet with a hnppier iflue. The figure was taken at the Clapham Garden, in Auguft 1800;when the plant had apparently attained its greateft perfection; but unfortunately, no feeds ripened;and at prefent, we believe, there is no veftige of the plant in Britain. It appears to delight in fandypeat, and to be kept under cover, even in the fummer feafon. //V
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.//,7 /A/ ,/■<■//// . PLATE CCXXXIX. GERANIUM SELINUM. Rock-ParJley-leaved Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.MONADELPH1A DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monogyna. Stigmata quinque.Fructus roftratus, penta-coccus. One Point al. Five Summits. Fkuit furniflied with long awns, five dry berries. See Geranium grandiflokum. Vol. 1. PI. XII. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis pinnatis, foliolis alternis, laci-niatis, hirfutis; petala bina fuperiora re-fracta, 3 inferiora concava, conniventia,re&a; ftaminibus 5 fertilibus; radice tube-rofa. Geranium with winged leaves; leaflets alternate,ragged, and hairy; the two upper petalsappearing broke back, the 3 lower concave,approaching and ttraight; five fertile elm es ;root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives, cut open and magnified. 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud magnified. Geranium felinum claims the priority of introduction, with us, to any of that numerous divifi

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