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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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ly-cinae interiores barbatae, apice incurvatae,fufcce. Protea with lance-fhaped fmooth leaves; theinner fcales of the empalement are bearded,turned inward at the point and brown. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Seed-bud and Pointal. 2. A Flower fpread open, with the tips in their places. This fine variety of the Shewy Protea might, indeed, alrnolt pafs for a diftinct fpecies. It was intro-duced, to Britain, in the year 1/0,4, by Mr. Williams, Nurferyman, of Turnham Green. The onlyliving lpecimen in Britain, we believe, of this plant, is at prefent in the Hammeifmith collection. Asyet no increafe has been produced from it, either by cuttings, or feeds; for although the plant flowersevery year, and the feeds in the cone, or rather flower-cup, feem perfect, they never vegetate. It is ahardy, and handfome growing Protea, requiring little, attention, and may be placed in any part ofthe green-houle; grows about three feet high, very bufbv, and flowers near the month of October. §4L _- (fit,
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f/J /J/, /,,r .j/srt/r.,, -- PLATE CCLXXVni. MELALEUCA CORONATA. Flax-leaved Melaleuca. CLASS XVIII. ORDER IV.POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads in many Sets. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx quinquefidus, femifuperus. Pctala quin-que. Filamenta raulta longiflima, connatain quinque corpora. Piftillum unum. Cap-fula 3-locularis. Cor five-cleft, half above. Petals five. Threadsnumerous, very long, united into five bo-dies. Pointal 1. Capfule 3-celled. SieMi.LALEUCA ERIC.EF0LI A, PI. 1/5. Vol.III. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Melaleuca foliis oppofitis, lanceolatis, enerviis,glaberrimis ; floribus feffilibus, ad bafin ra-mulorum confertis ; filamentis pinnatis, in.curvatis, purpureis. Melaleuca with oppofite, lance-fhaped leaves,without nerves and very fmooth; flowersgrow clofe to the branches, and crowdedtogether at their bate; threads winged,turned inward, and purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement and Seed-bud. 2. The fame, fhewn in a front view. 3. A Petal. 4. One of t

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