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 . -ciduis, ramulis viridibus; floribus, fub-um-bellatis, axillaribus; corollis, fub-cylin-draceis; calycibus apice reflexis. Stamini-bus decern. Whortle-berry
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 . -ciduis, ramulis viridibus; floribus, fub-um-bellatis, axillaribus; corollis, fub-cylin-draceis; calycibus apice reflexis. Stamini-bus decern. Whortle-berry with oblong egg-maped leaves,(lightly fawed, deciduous, the fmall branchesgreen; flowers grow rather umbeUed fromwhere the leaves are fixed to the Item; blof-foms nearly cylindrical; cups reflexed atthe upper part. Ten chives. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower complete. 2. The Cup. 3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud, the cup cut oft, magnified. 4. A nearly ripe berry. This lpecies of Whortleberry was, according to the Kew Catalogue, introduced by Mr. Young inthe year 17/0. It is a hardy plant; and, as a native of North America, where it is an under lfirubof the woods, fhould be planted in a fhady fituation, in peat earth. It is rarely killed by our frofts;grows about two feet high, and lofes its leaves in winter. Our drawing was made in June, thisyear, at the Nurfery, Hammerfmith, where it is propagated by layers. ^.n _ (JJ/,,. ?i/a in PLATE CLXXXIT. MALVA DIVARICATA. Straddling-br cinched Mallow. CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. MONJDELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx duplex; exterior 3-phyllus. Arilli plu-rimi, monofpermi. Cup double; outer three-leaved. Seed-coatsmany, Malva reflexa, PI. CXXXV. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Malva foliis lobatis, plicatis, dentatis, fcabridis;ramis ramulilque divaricatis, flexuolis. Mallow with lobed leaves, plaited, toothed, andrough; the large and fmall branches growftraddling, and zig-z
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