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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1841 (1840s)
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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hat it alwaysflowers more freely, and maintains the neatest and best appearance, when so treated.How far pruning or shortening the shoots would assist in facilitating the develop-ment of blooms, wo arc not prepared to state; but it would possibly be foundbeneficial. This species is propagated by cuttings, which arc most frequently taken off inthe spring, and placed in pots, beneath a glass, in a house that is kept closed andshaded, though not supplied witlrartificial heat. It may likewise be increased, bythe same means, in either summer or autumn, aud both with or without fire-heat. lu the gardens of JSir Ednmud Antrobus, Bart., at Chcani, Mr. Green cultivatesH. Comploniana with remarkable success; and from a handsome plant whichbloomed there during last summer, the drawing now submitted was made. As itcan be procured cheaply in almost all the nurseries where exotics are grown, itshould be secured, in conjunction with the valuable species of Keiinedi/a, for everygreenhouse in Britain.
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. /ot/zf/Mrff ,y/it/^/.t 29 PORTULACA THELLUSONII. (sm. thkllusons purslane.) CLASS. OHDER. DODECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. PORTULACACE.ffi. Generic Character.—Calyx either free, or adhering to the bottom of the ovary, bipartite, ultimatelyseparated at tite base, and deciduous. Petals four to six, equal, detached from each other, or unitedat tlic base, inserted on the calyx. Stamens eiglit to fifteen, or indefinite ; filaments free, sometimesadnate to the base of the corolla. Ovary nearly round. Style one ; five, six, or nine-cleft at thesummit; or, style wanting, and stigmas three to eight, elongated. Capsule somewhat globular,cue-celled, separated in the middle. Seeds many, affixed to the centre of the placenta:. Specific Character.—P/aw^ annual, ly/ems erect, succulent, i^flv^s alternate, somewhat cylindrical,acuminate, obtuse, with a number of filamentous stipules round their base, becoming nearly verti-cillate iumiediately beneath the flowers. Flowers on the summit of

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