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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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otiomspurple within. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The fcales of the cup of one of the fmall heads. 2. A fmall head of flowers, one of the. flowers open, the reft not yet expanded. 3. A floret, with the petals expanded. 4. A petal, with its chive, magnified. 5. A Pointal, natural fize, with the fummit detached and magnified. This handfome Protea we owe to Mr. R.Williams, of Turnham-green, nurferyman, who raifed it byfeeds received from the Cape of Good Hope in the year \7Q~J■ It is one of the handforoeft we yetpoffefs of the winged-leaved kind of Proteas; of which divifion, in this large family, there are now inthe Hibbertian collection eighteen diiiinct fpecies. This plant grows to the height of three feet, makes averybuthy head, and, when in flower, has a handfome appearance; as there are fometimes twenty fpikesof flowers on it at one time. It is propagated by cuttings, thrives in fandy loam, and flowers in June;in which month this year, 1S02, our drawing was made at Clapham. Mil uv,
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PLATE CCXL1V. HEMEROCALLIS GRAMINEA. Grafs-leaved Day-Lily. CLASS VI. ORDER I.HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla campanulata; tubo cylindrico.Stamina declinata. Blossom bell-fliapedj tube cylindrical.Chives declining.See Hemerocallis cjerulea, PI. VI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hemerocallis foliis linearibus, carinatis, grami-neisj petalis tribus interioribus raajoribnsundulatisj exterioribus minoribus, extusbruneis. Hemerocallis with linear leaves, keeled andgralTy; the three inner petals larger,waved, the outer fmaller, brown on theoutfide. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. An outer leaf of the Bloffom, (hewn from the outfide. 2. The Chives and Pointal. 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud, cleared of the chives. We have little doubt but that this is the fpecies of Day-Lily known to botanifts, fince the days ofParkinfon and Gerarde, under the character of a fmall leaved variety of the Yellow Day-Lily, althoughit has been many years loft to the countr

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