. Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge [microform] : in eight numbers : containing about 160 original articles and tracts on natural and historical sciences, the description of about 150 new plants, and 100 new animals or fossils ; many vocabularies of languages, historical and geological facts, &c. &c. & Natural history; Indians; Sciences naturelles; Indiens. m ,1"! 183 otiiera. Epidcrm thin. 5 to 8 inclies. 4. S|i. T. or 6. albida Raf. Mass founded wliitiHli, inside ivliitfl solid witlinut cliinks. outside witli Few cliiiilcs, and some sjiort wrinkles. In W. Pensylv.
. Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge [microform] : in eight numbers : containing about 160 original articles and tracts on natural and historical sciences, the description of about 150 new plants, and 100 new animals or fossils ; many vocabularies of languages, historical and geological facts, &c. &c. & Natural history; Indians; Sciences naturelles; Indiens. m ,1"! 183 otiiera. Epidcrm thin. 5 to 8 inclies. 4. S|i. T. or 6. albida Raf. Mass founded wliitiHli, inside ivliitfl solid witlinut cliinks. outside witli Few cliiiilcs, and some sjiort wrinkles. In W. Pensylv. Ohio & Kentucky, deemed a truffle, good to cat. Pertinps this is the Tuber of Bosc, but mine had no veins inside, with small gemmules outside, smull size 1 to 3 in- ches. ,*iXi 137. PlevradknaCoccinba. N. G. of Mexican Shrub, from Bartram's Garden. The Botanical Garden of Bartram received some years ago from Mr. Poinsett our am- bassador in Mexico, a fine new green-house shrub, akin to Eu- phorbia, with splendid scarlet blossoms, or rather bracts. It has since been spread in our gardens ner»i* Philad', and is known ivi some as the Euphorbia Poinsdli but ap- pears to mo to form a peculiar genus or S. G. at least, by ihc singular lateral mellifluous gland of the Perianthe. It is a ine showy plant, well deserv- ing cultivation; it gives out a white milk like the the gland exudes u yellow sweet Juice. G. Plecradexa Raf. Peri- anthe colored thick sub 8 lobe, on one side is a very large el- liptical gland, perforate and mellifluous. Piioranthe wooly, stamens incluse subulate, an- thers flat bilocular. Gynophore elongate pendulous, 3 bifid stjlesy capsule smooth trico- C0U9â⢠Jlbftit iShrubby, leaves scattered petiolate, umbel de- pressed corymbose, surrojiinded by many large colored bracts. Sp. PL coccinca. Raf. Iner* me, leaves ovate subangular acute remote, umbel irregular, bracts scarlet lanceolate acute. Flowers subsessile yellow edged with red, gland yellow, bl
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