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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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a dormant state; merelyobserving to keep it as dry as is compatible wdth the maintenance of its vitalitytill it begins to push forth young shoots, when it may be excited into vigorousgrowth by a more liberal application of water, and a greater supply of heat. Theyoung plants should always be supported by a slight stake, placed so as not to bevisible, till they have formed a sufficient number of roots to render such a practiceunnecessary, otherwise they will not emit roots so speedily as might be desired. This delightful plant flowered in the orchidaceous house at Chatsworth in thespring of the present year, at which time our drawing was taken. When inflower, its fragrance was perceptible in almost all parts of the house. The generic name is derived from the Greek epi, upon, and dendron, a tree, inallusion to the natural habit of these plants, which is, to grow upon the branchesand stems of trees. The specific name refers to the two horn-like processes which form a part ofthe labellum.
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247 HELICHRYSUM MACRANTHUM. (large-flowered HELICHRYSUM.)CLJISS. OIIDER. SYNGENESIA, SUPERFLU.V. NATURAL ORDER. COMPOSITE. Generic Character,—Flowers tubular; marginal ones few, feminine. Calyx imbricated, unequal;scales scariose; interior of tbe disc longer, membranaceous, shining ; rays coloured. Receptaclenaked. Pappus feathery or hairy. Specific Character—Plant annual, herbaceous. Stem erect or ascending, nearly simple, hairy, ■withone head of flowers on the summit. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, or partially spathulate, obtuse,entire; base of the petioles angular or amplexicaul, dilated on both sides, green, hairy. Headsoffloicers white, tipped -nith pale rose colour. Scales shining internally, broadly ovate, obtuse,mucronulate. Receptacle naked. Pappus rough. Every flower to which the popular appellation of everlasting can be applied,would appear, on the bare announcement of such a property, to command theinterest and attention of the lover of plants. The mere idea of pleasurab

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