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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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olium be cultivated as a border or lawn shrub, or in any openposition where it is required to display itself prominently, it is important that thequantity of fruit it is allowed to ripen be limited, by thinning and removing alarge portion of it. Where this is not done, the branches bearing the berriesbecome naked and bare, and spoil the symmetry of the bush. In order, however,to enjoy the beauty of the fruit, a small proportion may be left till it reachesmaturity; when, as it begins to wither, it can eitlier be gathered, and thrownaway, or employed for propagation. The seeds are sown in the spring on a bedof light soil prepared for the purpose, and the young plants pricked out in theearly autumn, or retained in the seed-bed till the following spring. When abouttwo or three years old, they are in the fittest state for final transplantation. Mr. Nuttall, an American botanist and traveller, detached this genus fromBerberis, in honour of Bernard MMahon, a lover of botany in North America.
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LOASA PENTLANDICA. Class. POLYADELPHIA. (Mr. Pentlanda Loasa.) Natural Order. LOASACE^. Order.POLYANDBIA. Gjbneric Character.—Calyx five-cleft, with the tubeadhering to the ovarium. Petals five, cucullate, equal,spreading, inserted in the top of the tube ; scales five,inserted with the petals, furnished with three sterilefilaments on the hack of each, and girding two subulateappendages inside. Stamens indefinite, inserted in thetop of the calycine tube, disposed in five bundlesopposite the petals; anthers two-celled, bursting in-wardly. Ovarium joined to thej^alyx. Capsule crovmed by the lobes of the calyx, three-valved at the top, one-celled; placentas linear, alternating with the valves.Seeds rugged.—Dons Gard. and Boto.ny. Specific Character.—Plant apparently herbaceous,perennial. Stems short, disposed to trail, or climbpartially. Leaves large, with numerous acute lobes,dark green, clothed profusely with stinging bristles.Floivers like those of L. lateritia, but darker red. L

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