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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
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The late Dr. Fothergill (to whomthe botanical world is fo much indebted, for the zeal and extraordinary liberality he conftantly mani-fested, in advancing the fcience) received this plant from China at the fame time with A. aurea,A. radiata, &c. about the year \J. It is rather a fcarce and tender bulb, as it is fubjecl to rot byovermuch wet. It has hitherto been kept, as are moll plants on their ririt arrival from China, in thehot-houfe; but, from every appearance, we ihould be led to fuppofe, it would not perilh if kept inthe Green-houfe, as we queftion much, whether it is not equally hardy with the Guernfey Lily, and anative, originally, as well as the latter, of Japan. It lhould be planted in fandy 4oam, with a fmall quantity of rough peat, above the tiles in the pot,to make it flower. The propagation is from offsets, which are produced but rarely from the oldbulbs. Our figure was taken from a plant in the Hammerfmith nurfery this year, 1801, in the monthof May. t )>/,*■,
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■-//lift ,■ /////., ./ //,,-,,,,,//// PLATE CLXIV. GALAXIA GRANDIFLORA. Large-Jlowered Galaxia. CLASS XVI. ORDER I.MONADELPHIA TR1ANDRIA. Threads united. Three Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Spatha univnlvis. Corolla monopetala, 6 fida,tubus nliformis. Stigma multipartita. Sheath of one valve. Bloffom one petal, 6-cleft,tube thread-fhaped. Summit many divi-fions.See Gai-axia ovata, PI. XCIV. Vol.11. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Galaxia foliis canaliculars, acuminatis, arcuatis;corolla magna, lutea, folia aequantia. Galaxia with channelled leaves, tapered to thepoint, and arched; bloffom large, yellow,and the length of the leaves. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The (heath of the bloffom. 2. A Bloffom ipread open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, the furamit detached, magnified. The figure of this delicate little bulb was taken from a plant in the Hibbertian Collection, which hadbeen imported in the laft, and flowered in February this year 1801. It is a tender

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