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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1842 (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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se orframe, where they will be prevented from acquiring tliat weakly character to whichthey are so liable. Tins plant is not well adapted for the open ground, on account of the delicacyand fragility of its stems. A few plants might, however, be turned out from thepots, and if uninjured by rains, they will make a good display. From its slender nature, it requires some support, and this should be affordedwhen the plants are about an inch high, by placing three or four short branchingsticks in each pot. A few of the twigs taken from the points of a birch-broomvpill answer the purpose, and they will be sufficient to effect the object withouttying the plant to them, if put in at the period above-mentioned. Linnaeus dedicated this genus to Matthew Lobel, the author of various botanicalworks. He was a native of Lisle, and became physician and botanist to Jamesthe First of England. The species heterophylla is remarkable for having its lowerleaves toothed or divided, and the upper ones entire.
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■^ ■<■ ■ S-HoUea AeL & litii. /c<?tLe?zdy^ i^CMTZ- ^zJ. CLERODENDRUM SPLENDENS. Class,DIDYNAMIA. (Splcndiil flowered Clerodendium.) Natural Order. VERBENACEiE. Order.ANGIOSPERMIA. Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, five-parted, five-toothed. Co7olla with a cylindrical tube,often elongated; limb five-parted, lobes equal. Sta-mens four, didyuamous, exserted, secund. Germenfour-celled, one-seeded. Stigma bifid, acute. Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen climber,smooth. Leaves oblong, undulated, acute, subeordateat the base. Panicto terminal, corymbose. Calyx 6ve-toothed, varying. Corolla with oblong nearly equallobes, and a plain short tube. Statnens straight, muchlonger than the style. Stigma two-toothed. A CLIMBING species in the genus Clerodendrum, though not altogether a novelty,is sufficiently rare to render the acquisition of the present plant an interestingcircumstance, had it no other claims to notice. But it is, in reality, rich in desirablequalit

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