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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nt to our friends. Tis true, it may be thought by fome, at firft fight, there istoo confiderable a degree of fimilitude in the plants to deferve a particular plate for each ; but, upon anigh inveftigation, it will be found there exifts a ftronger marked difference, in the growth of theplants, than, at firft, meets the eye; not certainly enough to conftitute a fpecific difference, but un-doubtedly a lfrong variety. The flower (terns, in this, grow more ftraddling; and the long ftem-leavesare more difperfed on the upper part of the plant; at the bafe they nearly referable each other. Wehave our figure from the Clapham Collection, to which the plants were introduced at the fame time,and through the fame channel as the above cited fpecies; feeds of both having been lent from theCape of Good Hope, by Mr. Niven, in the year 1/99- For all that relates to the management of this,we muff reter our readers to the figure jufi alluded to; as its habits, time of flowering, &c. innothing differ.
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50 ///<■///<■/// //i7.ic<r///a/«m &^= — PLATE CCLXXX. PERSOONIA LATIFOLIA. Broad leaved Perfoonia. CLASS IV. ORDER I.TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Tour Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx nullus. Petala 4, bafin verfus fiamini-fera. Glandulx 4 ad bafin germinis. Stig-ma obtufum. Drupa monofperma. Empalf.ment none. Petals four, fuppnrting the chives near the bafe. Four glands at the bafe of the feed bud. Summit blunt. A pulpy berry with one feed. See Peksoonia lanceolata, Pl.LXXIV. Vol.11. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Perfoonia foliis fubovatis, utrinque glabris,craffiufculis, uninerviis; petiolis brevibus,tortis. Perfoonia with leaves approaching to inverfely-egg-fliaped, frnooth on both (ides, thickifh,one-nerved; foot-flalks lhort and twitted. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.J. A Flower. 2. One of the Petals, with its Chive. 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud. 4. The fame, magnified. 5. The receptacle, with the four glands at the bafe of the Seed-bud, magnified. The very exaf

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