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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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its elegant blossoms atalmost any season of the year. It may doubtless be propagated from the leaves, although, as^ far as we areaware, this assertion has not yet been proved ; it also appears highly probable thatit will ripen seeds so as to be capable of producing fresh plants from them. We are obliged to IMessrs. Rollison of Tooting for the opportunity of figuringthis beautiful little plant, from whom we obtained our drawing in the month ofAugust, 1837; and we have great pleasure in thus introducing it to notice, as onewhich is highly worthy of extensive cultivation. Messrs. Rollison we believe possess a few plants of it, as also does Mr. Young,Epsom, from either of which estabhshments it may be obtained. The generic name was given in honour of Conrad Gesner, an eminent botanistof Zurich, and this genus is the type of a small natural order. The specific name alludes to the locality in which the plant was first dis-covered, which we presume was on rocks, or other similar situations.
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ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS CARYOPHYLLOIDES. (carnation-like snapdragon.)class. order. DIDY-NAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. NATURAL ORDER. SCROPHULARINEiE. Generic Character.—Calyx five-parted. Corolla ringent, closed by a projecting palate, prDtuberant(gibbous) not spurred at tlie base. Capsule with an oblique base without valves, and opening atthe extremity by three pores. Specific Character.—Plant an evergreen herbaceous perennial from one to two feet high, mostly withlarge purplish-red, but sometimes nearly white, flowers. Leaves alternate lanceolate, uppermostopposite, smooth. Flowers produced in spikes. Segments oicalyx ovate blunt. Var. CARYOPHYLLOIDES—Plant morc bushy and compact than the parent species. Flowers white, beau-tifully striped with red. The subject of the accompanying drawing is a very fine variety of a plant withwhich most of our readers must be familiar, as it abounds on decayed walls and theruins of old buildings in this country. Our gardens have already been enrichedwith man

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