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 . Dowager De Clifford received this plant from the ifland of St. Vincents, in the year 179-1;and we much queftion, whether it was ever feen in Britain prior to
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 . Dowager De Clifford received this plant from the ifland of St. Vincents, in the year 179-1;and we much queftion, whether it was ever feen in Britain prior to that period; although laid to becultivated in 17 () by Millar, in the 7th Edit, of his Dictionary, and from thence, collated into theKew Catalogue, p. 289, Vol. I. It is a climbing plant, if fupported ; but does not grow to any con-fidi rable height, if kept in a pot. The beft method of treating this plant, is the fame as that propofedfoi the Cratseva , PI. 176. Vol. III. The fpecific name Subere&a, of Jacquin andBrowne, mult undoubtedly have been taken from the plants which grow in the Savannas; where,they Icldom acquire above the height of two feet. The whole plant, from which, if any part is cutor broken, there iifues a milky fubftance, is confidered by Dr. Browne as poifonous. Our figure wastaken at M IT s. and Kennedys, this year, in Auguft. It is propagated by cuttings, put in aboutthe month of May, —. PLATE CLXXXVIII. GLADIOLUS CAMPANULATUS. Bell flowered Gladiolus. CLASS III. ORDER M0N0GYNL1. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla fexpartita, adfeendentia. Blossom fix divifions, afcending. See PL XI. Vol. I. Gladiolus rosevs. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, nervous, glabris;fcapo fubtrifloro, foliis longior; corolla fub-cainpanulata, palide purpurea, laciniis lub-acqualibus; ftigmalibus bifidis. Gladiolus with lance fhaped leaves, nerved andfmooth; flower-ftem moftly
Size: 1309px × 1909px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentur, bookdecade1790, booksubjectbotany, booksubjectflowers
