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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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lightly fawed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, with its honey-cup, and the tips, cut and fpread open. 2. The Pointal and feed-bud natural fize, the fummit detached and magnified. 3. The Seed-bud cut trailfverfely and magnified, to fhew the number of valves and lituation of the feeds. The Sawed-kaved Samyda is an inhabitant of mod of the Weft India Iflands, but was received inEngland, about the year 1/95, from the Illand of St. Vincent; tranfmitted from thence, by Mr. An-derfon, curator of the Botanic garden, originally eftabliilied there, under the fanftion of our govern-ment, by Dr. Young. It is a very tender plant, grows to about three feet in height, making but fewfmall branches, and rather weak in the ftem. Our drawing was taken in July this year at the gar-den of T. Evans, Efq. Stepney, who we believe firlt had it to flower in this kingdom. It is propagatedby cuttings ; rauft be kept in the bark-bed of the hot-houfe, and lhould be planted in very rich mould. • - 1,1,
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/tu/iift/.f ,j,r////«/u PLATE CCIII. IXIA COLUMNARIS.Columnar-chived Ixia. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointed. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.Corolla 6-petala, patens, aequalis. I Blossom 6 petals, fpreading, equal. Stigmata tria, ere&iufculo-patula. ;; Summits three, upright-fpreading. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.Ixia filamentis bafi cohaerentibus; floribus capi- I) Ixia with threads united at the bafe; flowerstatis; corollis purpureis. grow in heads; bloffoms purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two Valves of the empalement. 2. A Bloffom cut open. 3. The Chives and Pointal, with the tube of the bloffom, the border cutoff. 4. The Chives cut and fpread open, with the tube of the bloffom, magnified. 5. The Pointal and Seed-bud, with one of the Summits detached and magnified. Here we have a plant which prtfents one of thofe obftacles, conftantly met, in all attempts to a fyfte-matic arrangement of the produ6tions of nature. Every feature of Ixia we find positi

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