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 . iatis, acutis; umbella 4-6 flora;pedunculis calycibufque pilofis; floribuspentandris; radice tuberofa. Geranium with hairy winged leaves; leafletsdeeply torn
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 . iatis, acutis; umbella 4-6 flora;pedunculis calycibufque pilofis; floribuspentandris; radice tuberofa. Geranium with hairy winged leaves; leafletsdeeply torn, and iharp pointed; umbel from4 to 6 flowers; foot-llalks of the flowersand cups hairy; flowers with five fertilechives; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its tubular character. 2. The Chives and Pointal. 3. The Chives cut open, and magnified. 4. The Pointal, with the five Glands, or Honey-cups, at the bale. 5. The fame, magnified. This very pretty Geranium was introduced to the Clapham collection, in the year 1801, by , from the Cape of Good Hope. It is as hardy as any of the family, which have tuberous roots;may be increafed by cutting a portion otf the old root, in fpriog, and giving it the heat of the hothoufe, at that feafon of the year. It rarely produces ripe feed; fo fays Mr. Allen the manager of thecollection; and he recommends the planting of it in faudy peat earth. (jJ/?. /, r/ r/f///////// ////r j//M / A > PLATE CCLX. ORNITHOGALUM ODORATUM. Sweet-fcented Star of Bethlehem. CLASS VI. ORDER MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC Calyx nullus. Corolla. Tetala fex, lanceolata, infra medium erefta, fupra medium patentia, perfiftentia, colorem Filamenta fex, erecla, altema bafi dilatata, corolla breviora. Anthers fim- Germen angulatum. Stylus fub- ulatus, perfiftens. Stigma Capfula fubrotunda, angulata, trilocularis, plura, fub
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