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 . we have one at laft, whole Jcrutinixing eye //«« been al-le to make out all Linnieuss and evenT/iunlergs fpecies. This elucidation, ot fo intricate a lubject
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 . we have one at laft, whole Jcrutinixing eye //«« been al-le to make out all Linnieuss and evenT/iunlergs fpecies. This elucidation, ot fo intricate a lubject, by a perfon whole knowledge ofliving plants, we fear, does n >t had him, fcarcel<, to an acquaintancefhip with the difference of face ina Plane from a Poplar, mutt be matter of infinite moment, to thole, who wi/h to become acquaintedwith the plants they cultivate; and the frrull trouble, to moll perfons, of learning new, and outlinethe old names for plants, which have been long rivctted to the memory by habitual ule, will be amplycompenfated, by the pleafureof novelty, which muft neceflarily refult, from the certain alteration infome part of the title, of every plant which lias hitherto, oris to come under, this learned judgesdictatorial fiat. Our opinions, as do our labours, run counter to thefe new fafhions, of rendering adifficult fcience eufy; and our road muft ftill be in the old track of the triflcr Lrnnxue. J (,w. PLATE CXCIII. GERANIUM LINE ARE. hinear-petalled Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monogyna. Stigmata roftratus, 5-coccus. One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furnifhed with long awns; five dry Geranium Grandiflorum, I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis lanceolatis, obtufis, fubfinu-atis; petalis fuboequalibus, liuearibus; flo-ribus pentandris; radice tuberofa. Geranium with leaves lauce-fhaped, obtufe,and a little icolloped at the edges;
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