The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ous bractea 1leaves and examined the flowers, that I was persuaded of its being a true individual plants of llheum nobile are upwards of a yard high, and formconical towers of the most delicate straw-coloured, shining, semi-transparent, concave, imbricating bracts, the up-per of which have pinkedges; the large, bright,glossy, shining, green, radi-cal leaves, with red petiolesand nerves, forming a broadbase to the whole. Onturning up the bracts thebeautiful membranous, fra-gile, pink stipules are seenlike red silver-paper
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ous bractea 1leaves and examined the flowers, that I was persuaded of its being a true individual plants of llheum nobile are upwards of a yard high, and formconical towers of the most delicate straw-coloured, shining, semi-transparent, concave, imbricating bracts, the up-per of which have pinkedges; the large, bright,glossy, shining, green, radi-cal leaves, with red petiolesand nerves, forming a broadbase to the whole. Onturning up the bracts thebeautiful membranous, fra-gile, pink stipules are seenlike red silver-paper, andwithin these again the short-branched panicles of insig-nificant green flowers. Theroot is very long, often manyfeet, and winds amongst therocks; it is as thick as thearm, and bright yellow in-side. After flowering, thestem legthens, the bractsseparate one from another,become coarse red-brown,withered and torn; finally,as the fruit ripens they fallaway, leaving a ragged look-ing stem covered with pani-cles of deep brown pendu-lous fruits. In the winter.
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