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 . l. Five Summits. Fruit fumilhed with long awns; five dry ber- SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis radicalibus integris laciniatifque ;laciniis acutis ; petio
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 . l. Five Summits. Fruit fumilhed with long awns; five dry ber- SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis radicalibus integris laciniatifque ;laciniis acutis ; petiolis filiformibus; caly-cibus monophyllis; ftaminibus quinque fer-tilibus; radice tuberofa; floribus bicolo-ribus. Geranium with the leaves growing from theroot entire and jagged ; fegments pointed;foot-ftalks thread-fhaped ; cups one-leaved;five fertile chives; root tuberous; flowerstwo-coloured. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, a little magnified. 2. Chives, natural fize. 3. The fame, magnified and fpread open. 4. The Pointal and feed-bud, magnified. This very handfome variety of the ragged-leaved geranium, is but little different from the purple-flowered Var. figured No. CCIV. of this work, Vol. Ill, except in the colour of the flowers, and thatthe leaves are rather more cut. It was introduced the fame year to the Hibbertian collection, flowersin the fame month and requires the fame treatment, as the above variety. 06*. * (/r/?////////// uuvfua&m *a _—». PLATE CCLXX. PROTEA PULCHELLA. Waved-leaved Protea. CLASS IV. ORDER MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 4-fida leu 4-petala. Antheroe lineares,infertae petalis infra apicem. Calyx pro-prius nullus. Semina folitaria. Blo ssom 4-cleft or four petalled. Tips linear,inferted into the petals below the proper, none. Seeds folitary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Protea foliis lanceolatis, undulatis, rubro mar-ginatis, pilofis; fquamis calycis tricolo-ratis; capitulo ere
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