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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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uccession of flowersis maintained, from the beginning of September till the following midsummer.The shoots are annually leng-thened two feet or more, and plants produce flowerswhen only six inches high. From these facts there can be little doubt that this species will speedily attainthe height of six or eight feet; and if the plants are allowed an abundance of potroom and light, to enable them to form strong and vigorous shoots, it will certainlybe a most magnificent feature in a collection of greenhouse plants. We should be deficient in public duty and gratitude if we did not here beartestimony to the genuine philanthropy displayed by the gentleman to whom weare indebted for the introduction of this truly excellent plant, and who has contri-buted very largely to enrich our collections with so many delightful and attractiveornaments, as well as exerted himself with such zeal and spirit to promote theinterests of floriculture in general. The generic name is explained vol. iv. page 156.
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JUNE I, 18.31; 99 NEMOPHILA ATOMARIA. (speckled NEMOPHILA.)CLASS. ■ OIIDER, PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. HYDROPHYLLEiE. Generic Character.—Sec vol. iii. p. 151. Specific Character Plant annual. Stems procumbent, pale green, much brancbed, clotlieJ uitb bristly bairs. Leaves opposite, pinnatifid ; lobes ovate, mucronulate, bairy. Flowers solitary, nnslender peduncles, of from one to two inches long, also bairy. Corolla campanulate, white, witbnumerous blue specks. Calyx campanulate, hairy, green ; segments ovate, mucronulate. Ovariumround, hairy. There are few individuals, we should imagine, who make any attempts at cul-tivating those delightful plants (popularly termed annuals) which decorate ourflower beds and borders in the summer months, who are not now well acquaintedwith the lovely species of this genus (iV. insignis), figured vol. iii. p. 151 of thiswork, and it has doubtless now found its way into most collections. The present plant is neither so bold and handsome

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