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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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upper side of which is of a bright green tint,while beneath it is a rich purple. The flowers are large ; not disposed in flatregular heads, but occupying various positions, at difi^erent heights. They ai-e ofa deep, rich, brilliant blue colour, which cannot well be given in any drawing. Mr. Webber informs us, that on a specimen which was lately in bloom, thecontrast caused by the light green and pale purple of the leaves, and the dazzlingtint of the blossoms, rendered it very striking and attractive. The culture of these plants is exceedingly simple. The specimens should bedivided in autumn, and the divisions potted into small pots of any enriched loamyearth, shifting them repeatedly as they grow, and watering them with greaterprofusion as the spring advances. Preservation from frost is all they require inwinter ; and after they have ceased flowering in spring, they may be kept torpid(or nearly so) through the summer in a cold and partially shaded place, whererain cannot reach them. i
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■S HnlrlRn del, & litb . y-i(>Aa;/U(oyri /^^u/e- c^, TROPyEOLUM EDULE. (Edible-rooted Indian Cress.)Class. Order. OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Natural Order. BALSAMINACEiE. Generic Character Calyx five-parted, upper lobe t glaucous, linear-lanceolate, acute, irregularly recurved. furnished with a spur. Petals five, unequal; three Pedi«?(cto long, glaucous, one-ilowered. Calyx with alower ones smallest, or vanished altogether. Stamens \ large spur; segmentslarge, equal, orange-yellow, tingedeight, free from the base. Carpels three, somewhat and tipped with green, irregularly veined. Petals arose, kidney-shaped, indehiseent, furrowed, roundish.Seed large, filling the cell.—Dons Gard. and Botany. Specific Character.—Plant an herbaceous climber.Root tuberous. Leaves with long tortuous petioles,composed of six or seven leaflets; leaflets slightly arising from between the segments of the calyx ; uppertwo obcordate, emarginate, deep and bright orange;lower three smaller, broadly spatu

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