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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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m June till the end of August or September. Tlie colour of these isa pale and delicate lilac, varying, sometimes, to a pinkish tint. To cultivate it propitiouslj^, it is only necessary to give it an open loamy soil,and put it in a pot of moderate size, never suffering it to want water. After ithas done flowering, its stems can be cut down, and the pots placed in a cold framefor the winter, watering the roots very sparingly, and keeping the plants as hardyas possible. Planted out in the month of May, it makes a beautiful bed or patchin the pleasure-garden, and will last in bloom a considerable time. It is propagatedby division, by anthers, or by seeds. The latter it does not ripen freely. Most nurserymen now possess it, although we still see it in the largest quan-tities at Messrs. Hendersons, who obliged us by permitting the annexed represen-tation to be made in the summer of 1840. Malva has its origin in malache, soft, from the emollient and mucilaginousjuices of many of the species.
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Sjiioaa.daL&litii, ^e^n/t^Ce-?9zrrfz. a^n//.^?f€>t/z^J j/il€^(€ie/iJ. PEiYTSTEMON GENTIANOIDES; var. SPLENDENS. Clasf. DIDYNAMIA. (Gentian-like Pentstemon, splendid variety.) Natural Order, SCROPHULARIACEjE. Order,ANGIOSPERMIA. Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted, with adistant, Eolits.ry bract. Corolla veutricose, bilabiate.Stamens didynumous, with the rudiment of a fifth,which is usually filiform, and bearded on the upperside; anthers separate, usually glabrous. Capsuleovate, two-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. Seedsangular. Specific Character.—Stem downy at top. Leaveslanceolate, quite entire, glabrous. Panicle composedof one, two, and three-flowered peduncles. Calyx yiithovate segments. Corolla beardless; sterile filamentglabrous.—Dons Gard. and Botany. Var. Splbndens.—Flowers altogether much larger,with a dash of light crimson and scarlet. Many years have now passed away since the old Pentstemon gentianoides wasbrought to England from Slexico ; though it

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