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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included, not exserted, as well as by the deepercolour of the flowers. This plant is growing in the Birmingham Botanic Garden, where it was raised m 2 84 ONOSMA SETOSUM. from Russian seeds in the spring of 1838. As only one plant vegetated at thattime, it was taken up, divided in the autumn, and protected in a cold frameduring the winter ; but there is no doubt of its being perfectly hardy. Its duration is stated by Ledebour to be perennial, but it probably may beonly biennial. It may be increased by seeds, which is the best way of obtaininggood plants of all the Onosmas; though it might- also he increased by cuttings.It will thrive in any common soil, and will flower in June and July. The generic name is derived from ovos, an ass, and 00-^7), smell, from thesupposition that these plants are grateful to that animal. The specific namesetosum alludes to its bristly appearance. Fig. 1, calyx; 2, corolla, laid open to show the stamens; 3, pistil; 4,ovarium, deeply divided into four lobes.
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$5 SALVIA ARGENTEA. (Hoary Salvia.) DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. UN.\ KAN SYSTEM, No. 112. NATURAL ORDER.lamiacejE, Lindl. ; labiate, Juss. GENERIC CHARACTER. Salvia. (Lin.) Calyw ovatus, tubulosus, vel campanulatus bilabiatus; labio superiore integrovel tridentato, inferiore bifido, fauce intus nuda. Corolla tubo incluso vel exserto, aequaliventricoso vel ampliato, intus nunc piloso-annulato, nunc nudo vel ad basin in latere inferioreprocessibus vel dentibus 2 instructo; limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore erecto vel rarius patenterecte vel falcato, integro vel breviter emarginato; inferiore patente, breviore vel longiore, lobislateralibus oblongis vel rotundatis patentibus reflexis, vel contorto-erectis, medio plerumquelatiore integro vel emarginate. Staminum superiorum rudimenta nulla vel parva, claviformia;fertilia (inferiora) 2 prope faucem tubi inserta; filamenta brevia, sub horizontalia, vel rariuserecta, apice cum anthera articulata et supra articulationem plerumque breviter producta,rar

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