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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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swith five fertile tips; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its tubular ftructure. 2. The Chives fpread open. 3. The Pointal, natural fize, with the fummits detached, magnified. Our figure, which exhibits a fmall plant, of this fuperb fpecies of tuberous Geranium, was takenin the month of June, this year, 1802, at Meffrs. Colvilles nurfery, Kings Tvoad, Chelfea, and where itis ftill in high perfe&ion, this prefent month of July. We have every reafon to believe, from all theauthorities we are matters of, that this plant has not, till now, flowered in Europe. It forms a verylarge tuberous root, by the dividing of which it is to be propagated; as we fufpecr. the feeds will notripen on this fpecies more than moft of its congeners. It has the fame manner with the reft of thetuberous fpecies, lofing its leaves in winter, when they are fubject to rot, if much watered. Appearsto fluuriih in fjnJy peat, with a fmall portion of rotten dung. &.£-u
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(/r//r //////// r//c/rr/.>nr/fs/// 7 PLATE CCXLVII. GERANIUM CILIATUM. Fringed-leaved Ge?a?iium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monogyna. Sligmata quinque. Frudlus rof-tratus, pentacoccus. One Pointal. Five fummits. Fruit furnifhed with long awns, five dry berries.See Geranium grandiflorum, PI. XII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis intigerrimis, concavis, lanceo- ;; Geranium with quite entire leaves, concave, lance-tis, marginibus ciliatis; floribuspentandris; j fliaped, and fringed at the edge; flower» radice tuberofa. ;; with five fertile chives j root tuberous. .<ga» REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives fpread open, magnified. 3. The Pointal, magnified. The Angular fhape and number of the leaves of this plant, which are but two, large, concave, thickifh,between lance and egg fhaped, and fringed at the edge, conflitute the moft effential fpecific differenceit poffeffes; the fl

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