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 . capitatis; corollispallide caeruleis; foliis la- grow nearly in heads, bloflbms pale-blue; tioribus, falcatis. leaves broader, fcymitar fliaped. REFERENCE TO
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 . capitatis; corollispallide caeruleis; foliis la- grow nearly in heads, bloflbms pale-blue; tioribus, falcatis. leaves broader, fcymitar fliaped. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The 2. A BlolTom cut open, with the chives remaining attached. 3. The Tube of a blollbm, with the chives, the petals cut off. 4. The fame, cut open and magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; the fummits detached and magnified. The variety here given, was introduced to England, with the changeable-flowered variety, in 1T99,from Holland. It is the flroiigett marked variety of the fix we poffefs; it flowers in May. Thepetals of this variety are remarkably thick at the infertion into the tube, and bave a foft, beautifulbrown on the outride, when the flower is doled, which ilill is never fo fully fo, but a ftn-dl marginof the blue appears; which gives them a moll beautiful appearance in thai lbte. No p rticularregime is necefiary to this plant, more than what is necelfary to all the common (ri/l t. V. •/! IK/ ?/.) P L A T E CCXIV. WESTERINGIA ROSMARINACEARofemary-like Wefteringia. CLASS IT. ORDER MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC (Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, fub-cy-lindricum, erectum, perfiftens,quinqueden-tatum, aequale; bracVts Linis monopetala; petalum tubulatum ca-lyce paulo longius; limbus paten*, quinque-partitus, fub aequalis; laciniis duabus fupe-rioribus Filamenta quatuor, filiformia, faucitubi inferta, quorum duo luperiora lon-giora, fertilia; duo breviora fler
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