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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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we have found that anairy situation in the greenhouse is far preferable for it in the summer months,though we are inclined to think that the one above alluded to is more suitableduring the winter season, as a greater degree of heat would doubtless have a tend-ency to counteract the injurious effect of a redundance of moisture. This plant is a native of New South Wales, and Sir W. J. Hooker states (in the^Bot. Mag. 1128) that it is allowed bj^the natives and settlers of that colony (which ^is well known to be so rich in floral beauties) to be the most splendid of all theirvegetable productions; the natives also are said to obtain an agreeable repast bysucking its tubular flowers, which abound with honey. It produces its brilliantflowers in this country in the months of June and July. The generic name is derived from Telopas^ signifying, seen at a distance; thisdoubtless alludes to the great distance from which its rich crimson»coloured blos-soms are discernible in its native country.
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.^^n^,/^7t/-a ,aa//caujxA>ua. 75 ANGELONIA SALICARI^FOLIA. (WILDOW-LEAVF.D ANGKLONU.)CLASS. OilDER. DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. NATURAL ORDER. SCROPHULARIACE^. Generic Character.—Calyx four-parted, nearly equal. Corolla irregular, spreading, two-lipped, witlia short tube, and arched orifice ; upper lip two-parted, lower much larger, three-parted, with themiddle segment slipper-shaped at the base.—Loudons Enci/clopcedia of Plants. Specific Character,—Plant an evergreen, herbaceous, perennial, from 15 to 30 inches high ; dividinginto branches immediately above the crown of the root. Branches four-cornered, generallyupright, sometimes recumbent for the lower half, or thereabout; leafy only at their upper extremity,closely and shortly furred. Leaves opposite, spreading, near, sessile, 1^ to 2 inches long, 6 to 8lines broad, shortly furred on both sides, slightly indented at the edges. Floicers violet-coloured,axillary, solitary ; peduncles long. Calyx deeply five-cleft, two segments

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