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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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2. A Bloffom. 3. The fame, cut open. 4. The parts of fructification, as they appear when covered by the honey-cups, magnified. 5. The outer fcale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 6. The inner fcale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 7. The two Scales, as they are connected together at the bafe. 8. The Pointal, with the Chives; the Shaft, Summit, and Chives, with the bodies connecting the Chives, detached and magnified. This fpecies of Pergularia is a native of China, from whence it was received in the year I 89, byLady Hume; in whofe collection at Wormleybury, Herts, it firft flowered in 1 791. It is cultivatedand increafed in the fame manner as the P. minor, and is equally fragrant. We have little doubt thatour two fpecies comprife four, of the different authors who have collated from each other; we fhalltake the laft, Willdenow. The P. glabra and P. Japonica as our P. minor; and the P. purpurea andtomentofa as our P. odoratillima. The P. edulis of Thunberg is certainly Cynanchum. &>l*
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/ hifu met PLATE CLXXXVI. IXIA SPECIOSA. Deep crimfon Ixia. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla fexpetala, patens, aequalis. Staminatria, erectiufculo-patula. Blossom fix petals, fpreading, equal. Chivesthree, upright fpreading. See Ixia keflexa, PI. XIV. Vol.1. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis linearibus, medio coftatis, gramineis;fcapus biflorus, filiformis; corollis fub-campanulatis, profunde coccineis. Ixia with linear leaves ribbed in the middle andgraffy; flower-ftem two-flowered and thread-fhaped; bloflbms rather bell-fhaped and ofa deep crimfon. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open. 3. The Pointal, one of the tips magnified. Although this fpecies is not Icarce, yet, from the general method of treating it, that is, by givingit no more heat than has been found neceffary for the generality of Cape Ixias, few have feen itsbloflbms, though they poffefs the roots. To enfure their

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