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Title: The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Floriculture Botany
Publisher: (London : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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s. Calyxherbaceous, 5-parted, close-pressedly furred on the outside;segments linearly subulate, reflex to the base. Corollawhitish, about one fourth of an inch deep, oblongly campa-nulate, 5-cleft to below the middle; segments of the limbupright oblong obtuse, with a middle dorsal nerve; tubefurnished at the inside with five prominently bordered longi-tudinal honeybearing furrows or channels placed alternatelywith the stamens. Filaments about twice the length of thecorolla, equal, upright, filiform, hairy at the middle, in-serted at the base of the corolla: anthers oblong, brown,incumbent; pollen cream-coloured. Gernien roughly furredwith upright hair, roundish: style white, filiform, stiff:stigmas 3 or 2, uprightly spreading, short, round, withfrostedly roughened summits. The drawing was taken last summer from a plant whichhad been imported from America by Messrs. Frasers, of theSloane Square nursery; and formed part of that very ex-tensive collection of rare North American plants. \
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332 PASSIFLORA incarnata. I North American Jlesh-coloured Passionjlower or May- Apple, MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. Passiflore^e. Jussicu in annales du mushim, 6. 102.PASSIFLORA, Supra vol. l.foL 13. Passiflora incarnata. Vide supra vol. 2. foL 152, 8^ in notis tomo eidem ap*pensis. The present is the North American plant included byLinnceus in his Passiflora incarnata \ but if it is to be helda distinct species from that which we have given as thevariety /3 in the 152d article of this work, not the one bywhich the genus first made its appearance in Europe; al-though both have been combined under the Linnean incarnata. The species which first appeared in Europe, we havelittle doubt, was that which we have given in the above citedarticle, and which has since been published in Curtiss Ma-gazine and in the Horticultural Transactions, by the specifictitle of ediilis. Some botanists however are of a differentopinion, and think the original plant was neither the presentspecies, nor tha

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