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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
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ll Augult; perhaps, much later, as we believe, this is the firft time its bloffoms havebeen produced in England. The propagation is extremely eafy, by cuttings; but, to give the plantfufficient vigour for flowering, it mult be planted in a border, prepared of old rotten dung, fandypeat, and loam, of each, equal parts; feparated from the tan-bed by a partition of boards, fufricientlyltrong to fupport the earth, upon the removal of the tan. This method of treating many of the tropi-cal climbers, and even the common Caper, though a native of the fouth of Europe, has been foundneceffary to their production of flowers in this country. Oar figure was taken from a plant, treated inthe above manner, in the Stepney collection ; from whence, through the kind indulgence of the trulyurbanic, and indefatigable proprietor, T. Evans, Efq. we are in hopes of gratifying our botanicalfriends, with the figures of a number of plants, new to this country; and of which he is, at prelent,the fole poffefibr.
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caftfia rvtdc. /////,//;■ TLATE CLXXVIT. IXIA PUNCTATA. Dotted flowered Ixia. CLASS III. ORDER I.TRI AND RI A MONO G YNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 6-partita, patens, sequalis.Stigmata 3, ere£tiufculo-patula. Blossom 6 divisions, fpreading, equal.Summits three, nearly upright, fpreading.See Ixia reflexa, PI. XIV. Vol I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis linearibus, fcapo vaginantibus; fcapusgeniculatus, fubtriflorus; laciniis corolla;obovatis, lineato-pun&atis, purpureis. Ixia with linear leaves fheathing the Item; flower-item jointed, moltly three flowered; feg-ments of the blolVbm inverfely egg-fliaped,dotted in lines, and purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two valves of the (heath. 2. A BlolTom cut open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; a divihon of one of the fummits magnified. This curious Ixia was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1800, by G. Hibbert,Efq. and is, we believe, in the pof

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