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 . I //ft///* —— -. (>m ^ I 1 mmatmsaaasuaa —mmmmi 4^-a V PLATE CLXX. IXIA BULBOCODIUJM. speciosissim».CrOCUS-leaVCd Ixia. Far. with most leautifii/
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 . I //ft///* —— -. (>m ^ I 1 mmatmsaaasuaa —mmmmi 4^-a V PLATE CLXX. IXIA BULBOCODIUJM. speciosissim».CrOCUS-leaVCd Ixia. Far. with most leautifii/Jloiccr. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDR1A MONOGYNU. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 6-petala, patens, aequalis. Staminatria, erectiufculo-patula. Blossom 6-petals, fpreading, equal. Chivesthree, upright, fpreading. See Ixia reflexa, PI. XIV. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia fcapo unifloro; foliis liuearibus, canalicula-rs, fcapo sequantibus; corolla declinata,lubo brevi; ftigmatibus fextuplicibus. Ixia with one flower on the ftem; leaves linear,and channelled, the length of the flower-ftem; bloflbm declined, with a fhort tube-fummits fextuple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Bloflbm cut and fpread open, with the Chives, fhewn from the infide. 3. The fame, fliewn from the back or outfide. 4. The Pointal, with the Summits, magnified. This extremely delicate, and beautiful little Ixia
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