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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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ks thread-fhaped;cups one leaved; five fertile chives; roottuberous; flowers purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. The Chives fpread open. 3. The Pointal and feed-bud magnified. This very handfome variety, (for we cannot confider it as a fpecies,) of the Geranium laciniatnm,was imported in 1800, from the Cape of Good Hope, by G. Hibbert Efq.; in vvhofe collection itflowered, laft year, in the month of June, when our drawing wastaken; and we believe it is in no otherat prefent in this kingdom. Mr. Allen, under whole care that collection is preferved in fuch highorder and perfection, and to whofe kind communications, we are much indebted; informs us, thathe has not, as yet, been able to increafe it; but, from every appearance, the plant, he has no doubt,may, by the root, as are the other fpecies which have the tuberous character ; and that he did not treatit differently from the reft of the Geraniums which compofe this branch of that interefting family. &£
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( /r/,/ ///// m f tnial&rn / far fbrr •* , PLATE CCV. PLATYLOBIUM LANCEOLATUM. hance-Jhaped- leaved Flat-pea. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Chives in two Sets. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx campanulatus, quinquefidus ; laciniisduabus fupremis maximis, obtufis. Staminaomnia coalita. Legumen pedicellatum.com-prelfum, dorfo alatum; polyfpermum. Cup bell-fhaped, five-cleft; the two upper feg-ments very large and obtule. Chives allunited Pod on a footflalk, compreffed,winged along the back ; many feedcd. See Plate CXCI. Vol. III. Platylobium scolotexdrum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Platylobium foliis glaberrimis, diftichis, lineari-lanceolatis ; floribus folitariis, axillaribus;ramis junioribus fub-comprelfis. Flat-Pea with very fmooth leaves pointing oppo-site ways, linear-lance lhaped j flowers growlblitary from the lower part of the leavesclofe to the branches; the younger branchesare rather flatifh. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement of the

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