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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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o flower in this situation in almost constant succes-sion, with tlie exception of two or three months in the depth of the winter. This species requires no peculiar care or attention with regard to cultivation, asit will thrive well in any light loamy soil, with the treatment usually given to half-hardy annuals; but, hke N. insignis, it will doubtless ripen seeds better in thoseplants which are kept in the greenhouse. Dr. Lindley states (Bot. Reg. 1940)that it is probably a native of New California, and that seeds of it were transmittedto this country from the Imperial Garden at Petersburgh. Our liberal contributor, Mr. Young, of the Epsom nursery, famished the subjectfor the present drawing in December 1837, and of that gentleman we believe plantsor seeds may be procured, as well as of most other nurserymen and seedsmen. The generic name is explained vol. iii. p. 152. The specific name applies to the little blue-coloured spots with which thecoroUa of the flower is so liberally marked.
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OMA(///c/^--y .jca/iv//^^ir^. JUNE 1. 10 3 S 101 IMPATIENS SCAPIFLORA. (STEMLESS TOUCH-ME-NOT.)CLASS. OUDEll, PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. BALSAMINE^. Generic Character.—Anthers five, three of which are two-celled, and tlie two in front of the upperpetal are only one-celled. Stigmas five, joined together. Capsules prismatically teretcj elongated,with the valves turning inwards from the base to the top, and expelling the seeds when touched.Peduncles axillary, branched, many-flowered. Capsules smooth. Leaves alternate, very rarelyopposite. Specific Character Scape radical, hearing a raceme of long-stalked flowers. Leaves roundish, cordate, many-nerved, entire ; spur longer than the pedicel. The accompanying figure represents a plant, wlilch, though small, is perhapsone of the most elegant and interesting objects which adorn our hothouses andstoves. When plants are introduced to this country from tropical regions, wenaturally expect to find them of rapid-growing, strong, large

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