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 . PLATE CLXXIX. AMARYLLIS RETICULATA. Netted-flowered Lily-Daffodil. CLASS VI. ORDER MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTE
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 . PLATE CLXXIX. AMARYLLIS RETICULATA. Netted-flowered Lily-Daffodil. CLASS VI. ORDER MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 6-petala, campanulata. Stigma tri-fidum. Blossom 6-petalled, bell-fhaped. Summit Amaryllis radiata, PL XCV. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Amaryllis fpatha multiflora ; corollis reticulars,purpureis; foliis oblongis, reticulatis, bafiattenuatis. Lily Daffodil, flieath many flowered; bloflbmsnetted and purple; leaves oblong, netted,and tapered at the bale. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Petal and its Cliive, attached, as it is in the flower. 2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. The Amaryllis reticulata, a native of Brazil, South America, was fir ft cultivated in the year 1/72, atthe Hammerfmith nurlery; the bulbs had been received from Portugal by Edward Whittaker Gray, M. the Rriiifh Mufeuni ; and were by him communicated to Meffjs. Lee and Kennedy. Our drawingwas made this fpring, in May, from a plant in
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