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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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Chive complete. 4. The Pointals as they (land in the flower. 5. A ripe feed, with its feathered tail. This is, unqueftionably, the Auftrian Atragene of Jacquins Vind. 249; and, we think, no one whohas had an opportunity of comparing the A. alpina with this plant, but will determine it a diltin6tfpecies. It is a hardy, climbingfhrub; growing frequently, eight or ten feet in a feafofl, and coversitfelf pretty abundantly with foliage ; the foot-ftalks of the old leaves becoming cirrhi or tendrils, andthe wood growing to a contiderable thicknels. The flowers begin to appear about May; and continuein fuccellion, till July. It may be propagated by layers; but, the fureft mode is by feed, whichmay be fown as foon as ripe, and which will be perfected from the firft flowers, by Auguft. It growsthe molt flourifhing in light rich earth ; but will live in the moll common. Our figure was madefrom a plant in the Hammerfmith collection, to which it was firft introduced in the year 1792. • ( . ISO
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■ //;,-/./, ■„,■ r/z/.j//,, ■ fltte • PLATE CLXXXI. VACCINIUM VIRGATUM. Green-twigged Whortie-berry. CLASS VIII. ORDER I.OCTANDRIJ JIOXOGVXIJ. Eight Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx fuperus. Corolla monopetala. Fila- II Cup fuperior. Blofiom one petal. Threads fixedmenta receptaculo interta. fiacca quadri- into the receptacle. A berry with four cells locularis, polyfperma. and many feeds. See Vaccinium arctostaphyllos. PI. XXX. Vol.1.SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Vaccinium foliis oblongo-ovatis, ferrulatis, de-ciduis, ramulis viridibus; floribus, fub-um-bellatis, axillaribus; corollis, fub-cylin-draceis; calycibus apice reflexis. Stamini-bus decern. Whortle-berry with oblong egg-maped leaves,(lightly fawed, deciduous, the fmall branchesgreen; flowers grow rather umbeUed fromwhere the leaves are fixed to the Item; blof-foms nearly cylindrical; cups reflexed atthe upper part. Ten chives. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower complete. 2. The Cup. 3. The Chives, Po

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