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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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oppofitis, fpicatisj corollis albidis. fpikes; flowers grow oppofite and fpiked; II bloffoms white. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 2. A flower cut open to (hew the fituation of the Chives. 3. The Pointal natural fize. This is the plant which is figured by Miller, in the coloured plates which correfpond with the dictionary,104, t. 155. fig. 2. under the fpecific title it here bears; and, fays the Kew Catalogue, was cultivatedby him 1/5/. Since this is the firlt which bore the title of Polyftachia, and being of the colour wethink is moftly primitive in flowers, we have given it the preference; and lhall confider all the other18, (of which we have drawings and decidedly of this fpecies) as varieties from this. The flowers ofthis fpecies are more lafting than moil of the others; and are in general, efpecially this fort, veryhardy. It propagates freely by the root and by feed. Our drawing was made at the nurlery, Ham-merfrnith, laft year, in the month of May.
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PLATE CLVI. BANKSIA ERIC^EFOLIA. Heath-leaved Bankfia. CLASS IV. ORDER I.TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Receptaculum commune elongatum, fquamofum.Corolla tetra-petala. Stamina limbo inferta.Capfula bivalvis, difperma, interjecto femi-nibus diffepimento mobili. Semina alata. Common receptacle elongated, fcaly. Bloffomof four petals. Chives inferted into thelimb of the bloffom. Capfule with twovalves, two feeds, and a moveable partitionbetwen them. Seeds winged. See Banksia serrata, PI. LXXXII. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Bankfia foliis linearibus, margine revolutis,truncato-emarginatis, fupra glabris. Bankfia with linear leaves, rolled back at theedge, appearing cut off at the ends, whichare notched and fmooth on the upper fide. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Bloffom complete. 2. The fame fpread open. 3. The Petals of a flower, with their chives magnified. 4. The Pointal natural fize, with the Summit detached, magnified. 5. The rudiments of

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