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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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wartZj his reafon, that it fplits determinately, by a future,from the top to the bale. Our fpecies, is the third now in Britain ; they are all natives of the \Yeft India Iflands. Theiff. B. amerieana has been long an inhabitant of our hothouies; the 2d B. maculata is but little knownto moli, though long cultivated here; as it has been treated as a variety of the firft fpecies, notwith-standing the flrong fpecific difference, in the fhape of the leaves and bfoffoms; which in the B.maculata, are beautifully marked at the bale, and as large as the undulaia; the leaves inverfely egg-fhaped and more downy. The prelent plant feldorn grows more than four feet high, flowers freelyabout March, is very fweet fcented, and is eafily propagated by cuttings. It was firft feat to Englandin the year \~H-i, by Mr. Elcock from the lfland of Karbadoes, to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Ham-merfmith. Our drawing was made from a plant in the Clapham Collection, in March liSOO. llfhould be planted in rich earth.
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PLATE CLXVIII. GERANIUM PICTUM. Painted-flowered Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monogyna. Stigmata 5 Frudus roftratus, I! One Pointal. Five Summits. Fruit furnifhedpenta-coccus. vrith long awns, five dry berries. SeeGERANtu.M Granditlokum. PI.XII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis cordato-oblongis, obtufis, in-equaliter incifis, tomentolis, humi adpref-fis; corolla alba, petalis fuperioribus pro-fundi fupra medium rubro maculatis; fta-aiitiibus feptem fertilibus; radice tuberofa. Gerapium with oblong heart-fhaped leaves,blunt, unequally gaflied, downy, and ly-ing dole to the ground; bloffom white;the upper petals deeply marked with redabout the middle; feven fertile chives;root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Einpalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 3. The Chives fpread open, magnified. ■i. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified. No Genus of Plants claims our notice, for it

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