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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bitter and astringentproperties, in consequence of which it has been received into the list of medicinalplants. The stamens of this genus are also worthy of attention from theirexcitability. If touched on the inside with a needle, or any other hard substance,they will bend to the stigma, but recover themselves if left at rest for some time,when they may be excited again in the same manner. The best time to performthis experiment is on a fine sunny day. This peculiar property is destroyed eitherby corrosive or narcotic poisons; the one makes them hard and brittle, the othersoft and flaccid, thereby producing an effect on vegetable life analogous to thaton the animal kingdom. x The generic name Leontice is from the Greek Kzovtikt), wild chervil; its specificname Chrysogonum applies to the golden colour of its flowers. Fig. 1, a flower with the sepals and petals removed to show the filaments andanthers ; 2, shows the orbicular stigma; 3, germ, with the seeds; 4, section of aseed-vessel.
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35 HOITZIA COCCINEA. (Scarlet-flowered Hoitzia.)LINNEAN SYSTEM. ^ NATURAL ORDER. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. POLEMONIACE^E. GENERIC CHARACTER. Hoitzia (Juss.) Calyx tubulosus, quinquefidus sequalis. Corolla infundibuliformis • limboquinquepartito subsequali. Stamina quinque sequalia exserta. Capsula trilocularis trivalvis,calyce persistente tecta; loculis oligospermis. Semina compressa nuda externe mucilaginosa.Frutices foliis alternis solitariis serratis. Floribus axillaribus solitariis bracteatis; corolliscoccineis aut viplaceis.—Kunth, Lyn. Plant. JEquinoct. vol. ii. p. 258. Calyx tubulose, divided into five equal parts. Corolla funnel-shaped, limb somewhat equallyfive-parted. Stamens five, equal, projecting beyond the corolla. Capsule three-celled, three-valved, crowned by the persistent calyx. Cells few-seeded. Seeds compressed, naked, exter-nally mucilaginous. Shrubs with alternate leaves, solitary, serrated. Flowers axillary, solitary,bracteate. Corolla scarlet or violet. SPECIFI

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