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Title: The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Andrews, Henry Charles, fl. 1799-1828 Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760-1835, printer Haworth, Adrian Hardy, 1768-1833 Kennedy, John, 1759-1842 Jackson, George, d. 1811 Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI
Subjects: Plants, Cultivated Botany Flowers
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ... : To be had of J. White, Fleet-street, and all the booksellers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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n England, by Mefirs lee and Kennedy fromMontreal, Canada, N. America. It is a native of all the northern parts of that country, as tar asNew England; propagates itfelf by the root, and flowers in July. It will not t! ri\e but on a lhadyborder, which fhould be made of light fandy peat. Much we revere the name of Solander, and highly rate his merit as a Butanift; yet we cannot for-bear ftating our dilfent from the arrangement of this plant, as a Dracaena, certainly nothing can bemore diflimilar, in every part; this may be eafilv traced by comparing our figure and directions, asconnected with the Generic character. The whole natural habit of the plant, points out Convallariafor its genus, to which it is much nearer allied than Dracaena, even in thi- fexual characters. How-ever, we only ftate our opinions, without even thinking of change, as the plant is known as Dracaena,having been figured and defcribed in the Firft Vol. of the Kew Catalogue, page 454, under the pre-lent title. @&*
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1- rni <r/u/ rni *■ PLATE CCVII. M IMOSA L O N G I FO L I A. Long-leaved Mimofa. CLASS XXIII. ORDER I. POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. Various difpofitions. Upon one Plant. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER Hermaphrod. Calyx 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam.5 feu plura. Pist. 1. Legumen.Mafcul. Calyx 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam. 5, 10, plura. Hermaph. Cup five-toothed. Blois. 5-cleft. Chives 5 or more. Pointal oue. Apod.Male. Cup 5-toothed. Blofs. 5-cleft. Chives 5, 10, or more.See Mimosa stricta. PI. LIN. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Mimofa foliis integris longifiimis, utrinque gla-bris, obtulis; capituli geminati, racemofi,longiffimi, oppofiti, lutei, fubcernui. Mimofa with entire, very long leaves, fmooth onboth fides and blunt; flower heads growby pairs in very long bunches oppofite toeach other, yellow and rather nodding. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower, magnified, fhewn fideways. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The BloHbm, magnified. 4. A Chive, magnified. 5. The Pointal, m

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