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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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erted to, and few individuals, except practisedbotanists, would observe any material distinction. The chief point of difference is,that in the senus Physostegia, the calyx is inflated after the flowers have faded. Our figure differs so materially from that given in the Bot. Mag. p. 3386, thatwe were inclined to consider this plant must be the P. truncali j but on a furtherexamination, sufficient identity may be found in its habits and mode of inflorescence to induce iis to publish it under this name. It is, we believe, percectly hardy;but a few plants kept in pots in the greenhouse will have a very good effect. Itmay be propagated by seeds or offsets. This is another of the elegant plants for a drawing of which we are indebtedto Messrs. Young of the Epsom nursery, from which establishment our figure wastaken in October 1837, and whence plants of it may be obtained. The o-eneric name is taken froni^;%sa, a bladder, and stege, a covering, alludingto the bladder-like nature of the calyx.
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iy/U^/.Z-z-f^-/rt //^/:/./uu-<r. 175 ONCIDIUM PAPILIO. (buttf.rfly-plant.) CLASS. OHDFIt. GYNANDRIj\. MONANDRIA. natural order.ORCHIDACE^. Generic Character.—See vol. iv. p. 77. Specific Character.—Plant an Epiphyte. Leaves solitary, oval, dark green, with numerous irregularbrown spots. Scape articulated, two-edged, few-flowered ; upper sepals longest, linear ; lower onesdistinct, ovate-lanceolate, undulated at the margins*. Culumn two-horned, otherwise fimbriated. In almost every tribe of plants there are some species wliicli attract universalattention, while others are either wholly overlooked or regarded with comparativelylittle interest. Amongst orchidaceous plants there are few which have been moregenerally admired, or have become greater favourites, than the beautiful species ofwliich a drawing is here given. With little of the striking magnificence for which some of the members of thischarming tribe are remarkable, there is something so pleasing and interesting inOncidiu

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