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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 cultivation there are few particulars worthy of remark, except that it hasbeen deemed advisable, in potting, to elevate the soil a little in the centre of thepot, to facilitate the escape of water, as the roots, being small, are susceptible ofinjury from any redundance of this element. A mixture of loam and peat hasbeen found a suitable compost for this plant, but it may here be observed that thesoil should be enriched as much as may be deemed consistent, in order to promotea greater degree of luxuriance than has yet been attained. Cuttings of the young shoots wiU strike if planted in pure sand, placed in agentle heat, and preserved from superfluous moisture; and seeds, which ripentolerably well, will most probably vegetate by being slightly stimulated. In the nursery of Messrs. Young, Epsom, the specimen from which our figurewas obtained flowered in great perfection in April last. The generic name alludes to the little feathery tuft of hairs which is attachedto each of the seeds.
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UCUST i.lQ3e //ucffe^??t //(rUaa)i 147 ILLICIUM FLORIDANUM. (fi-orida aniseed-tree.) class. order, POLYANDRIii. POLYGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. MAGNOLIACEtE, Generic Character.—Calyx of three to six petal-like sepals. Carpels stellately disposed, capsularopening on the under side, one-seeded. Seeds shining. Don^s Gard; and Botany. Specific Character.—Leaves petiolate, troadly ovate, acute, partially reclinate. Petals twenty-sevento thirty, dark purple, outer oblong, inner ones lanceolate, usually curved inwards at their extremities The principal merit of the plant represented in the accompanying plate, is thedelightful fragrance resident in its leaves and flowers, and which is possessed to sogreat a degree as to obtain for it a generic appellation which signifies to attract,or to allure. Its foliage and flowers, however, are by no means destitute ofother attractions, for the bold and handsome character of the former, together withthe fine pendent clusters of dark-purple double blossoms,

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