Identifier: floralcabinetmaIIIKnow (find matches)
Title: The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Knowles, G. B. (George Beauchamp), 1829-1852 Westcott, Frederic, -1861 Baxter, W. Henry, former owner. DSI Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI Bradbury & Evans, printer Day & Haghe, printer of plates
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Gardening
Publisher: London : William Smith
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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f Mexico, where it was foundby Scheide and Ehrenberg. Our drawing was made from a fine plant now growingin the gardens of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society, to whichestablishment it was presented by the curator of the Berlin Garden, in the year1838. It will probably require frame protection during the winter : at least, soit has been treated in the Birmingham garden, with great advantage. It is,therefore, evident, that it would soon become perfectly hardy, though at presentthe plants are much too scarce to risk many of them in the experiment. One,however, was turned out into the open border in May, where it is now growingabout two feet high. It flowers in July and August, and may be increased bydivisions, or by seeds. The soil should be loam and peat. The generic name, from potens powerful, has been adopted in consequenceof the powerful virtues supposed to be contained in the tribe. The specific namehcematochrous, is derived from eujua— ros, blood, and xpoa, colour.
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117 CHEIRANTHUS OCHROLEUCUS. (Pale yellow Wall-flower.) LINNEAN SYSTEM. __ , „■ NATURAL ORDER. No. 120. TETRADYNAMIA SILIdUOSA. CRUCIFER^E. GENERIC CHARACTER. Cheiranthus (Brown.) Siliqua teres aut compressa. Stigma bilobum aut capitatum.Calyx basi bisaccatus. Semina 1-serialia ovata compressa (o=). (Decand. Prod. vol. i. p. 135.) Siliqua round or compressed. Stigma two-lobed or capitate. Calyx bisaccate at the base.Seeds arranged in one row, ovate, compressed. Cotyledons accumbent. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. C. ochroleucus. Suffruticosus adpressis pilis vestitus ; foliis linearibus; floribus ochroleuciscapitatis breviter pedicellatis; petalis subrotundis, unguibus longissimis ; stigmate bilobato. Suffruticose, clothed with appressed hairs; leaves linear; flowers of a pale yellow colour,capitate, shortly pedicellate ; petals roundish, entire, claws very long; stigma two-lobed. Descr.—Suffruticose. Stem angular, about twelve inches high, covered with closelyappressed white hairs. Leaves

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