Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo05paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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ery liable to the attacks of thered spider. These observations, however, apply only to the plants which have notmatured their fruit, for after this period of their existence, they will continuehealthy a much longer time in a lower temperature. Used as an ingredient in pickles, this is decidedly the most valuable specieswith which we are acquainted, the pods having an unusual spicy and pungentflavour, but very agreeable when employed sparingly. Our drawing was taken at Chats worth in the autumn of last year, and we havecultivated it extensively both for culinary and ornamental purposes during thepresent season. The generic name is derived from hapto^ to bite, in allusion to the pungentqualities of the fruit of the species. The specific appellation refers also to the remarkably hot and burning qualitiesof the fruit, and when thus superadded to the generic, implies that this speciespossesses these properties in an extraordinary degree. We received it under thename of True Chili Capsicum.
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c/it^ )99 EUTOCA WRANGELIANA. (bakon wrangels butoca.) class. order. PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. HYDROPHYLLE^. Generic Character.—Corolla deciduous. Ovarium roundly-oval, hairy. Placentm linear, adheringto the back of the partition of the ovary, from four to many-seeded. Capsule with incompletedivisions, usually two-celled. Specific Character.—Plant an annual, growing from four to six inches high. Stems numerous, par-tially declinate, somewhat tortuous, hairy. Leaves ovate, acute, entire. Corolla, twice as long asthe calyx; and about equal in length to the stamens. Placentas eight to ten, ovulate. Considered as the principal ornaments of the flower-garden throughout themost delightful period of the year, and, during a considerable portion of it, themost interesting features in the greenhouse, annual plants have great claims to ourattention, and should be very extensively cultivated in every pleasure-garden.But the vast number and variety of sorts that are now known in ou

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