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 . btain, amongft modern botanifts; fuch as Jufiieu, Cavanilles, Willdenow, &c. we fhall notdiflent; although we, at the lame time, take the liberty to fay, fro
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 . btain, amongft modern botanifts; fuch as Jufiieu, Cavanilles, Willdenow, &c. we fhall notdiflent; although we, at the lame time, take the liberty to fay, from the particular tendency of theold genus Portulaca, to vary in moft parts of the flower, both as to number and character, we havetaken up the prefent genus, but reluctantly. This plant is a native of the Weft Indies, and is, byfome, conlidered a< an annua!; whilft by others it is treated of as a fhrub; but, indeed, it partakes ofboth characters in fome meafure; for the ftem generally decays down, near to the earth, and oftenthe whole plant dies, alter flowering. It grows to the height of two feet, half of which is formed ofthe flower Item. It makes a very gay appearance about Auguft, and feeds abundantly. Our figurewas taken from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, Efq. Kenlington Gore; where it flowers, annually,in the higheft perfection. Introduced, fays the Kew Catalogue, by Chevalier Murray, in the year1776. - — M:. /(/// //// m /<//,?/, ? i //<//<?// PLATE CCLIV. GERANIUM PROCUMBENS. Procumbent Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER DECAXDRLI. Threads united. Tent hives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monogvka. Stigmata quinque. Fruftus rof- II Five fummits. Fruit furnifliedtratus, 5 coccus. with long awns, five dry berri s. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium caule fubcarnofo, proftratoj foliis cor-datis, lobatis, crenato-dentatis; calycibuspentaphyllis; floribns tetrandris, corollisirregularibus. Geranium with tl e ftem rather flcfliy, and prof»t
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