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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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hs in very pleasing profusion. In its propagation, cultivators have experienced some difficulty, but cuttings ofit will strike (though slowly) if planted in sand, and one principal reason why theydo not produce roots more speedily is their tendency to flower after being plantedas cuttings. If the flower-buds be timely removed, and the cuttings judiciouslytreated in other respects, they will most probably succeed better than they havehitherto done, and the plant become a common ornament to our collections. Seeds are occasionally ripened, but the produce from them has been veryinconsiderable, and this is by no means so certain and expeditious a mode of propa-gation as that by cuttings. The collection of Messrs. Rollison, of Tooting, furnished the subject of thepresent drawing, from whom, and from Mr. Young, Epsom, plants of it may beprocured for a trifling sum. The generic name is taken from cheilos, a lip, and odous, a tooth, in allusion tothe indentation in the lower lip of the calyx.
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lOaAj-i-c^^r^^ 197 CAPSICUM USTULATUM. (burning capsicum, or true chili.) class. oiidrr. PENT-ANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. SOLANACEiE. , Generic Character.—Calyx permanent, five-tootlied. Corolla rotate, limb plicate, five-cleft. Anthersconnivent, two-celled, dehiscing lengthwise. Stigma obtuse. Berry dry, inflated, and hollow, ofa papery consistence, two to four-celled, many-seeded, naked. Placentce adnate to the dissepiment.—Dons Gard, and Botany. Specific Character.—Plant frutescent, much branched. Branches flexuose, divaricate, angular.Leaves very large, ovate, acuminate, glabrous, as well as the petioles. Calyx entire. Pedunclesusually solitary. Fruit angular, pendulous, from one and a half to two and a half inches long,covered with irregular protuberances, bright red. Seeds of this very distinct and handsome species of Capsicum were originallyreceived by us frona J. Bateman, Esq., of Knypersly, and as it is new, valuable,and by no means unomamental, we have pleasure i

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