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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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btain, amongft modern botanifts; fuch as Jufiieu, Cavanilles, Willdenow, &c. we fhall notdiflent; although we, at the lame time, take the liberty to fay, from the particular tendency of theold genus Portulaca, to vary in moft parts of the flower, both as to number and character, we havetaken up the prefent genus, but reluctantly. This plant is a native of the Weft Indies, and is, byfome, conlidered a< an annua!; whilft by others it is treated of as a fhrub; but, indeed, it partakes ofboth characters in fome meafure; for the ftem generally decays down, near to the earth, and oftenthe whole plant dies, alter flowering. It grows to the height of two feet, half of which is formed ofthe flower Item. It makes a very gay appearance about Auguft, and feeds abundantly. Our figurewas taken from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, Efq. Kenlington Gore; where it flowers, annually,in the higheft perfection. Introduced, fays the Kew Catalogue, by Chevalier Murray, in the year1776. - — M:
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/(/// //// m /<//,■/, ■ i //<//<■// PLATE CCLIV. GERANIUM PROCUMBENS. Procumbent Geranium. CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.MOXADELPHIA DECAXDRLI. Threads united. Tent hives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monogvka. Stigmata quinque. Fruftus rof- II OsePoint.u.. Five fummits. Fruit furnifliedtratus, 5 coccus. with long awns, five dry berri s. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium caule fubcarnofo, proftratoj foliis cor-datis, lobatis, crenato-dentatis; calycibuspentaphyllis; floribns tetrandris, corollisirregularibus. Geranium with tl e ftem rather flcfliy, and prof»tr.ite; leaves heart-fliapedj lobed, between fcolloped and toothed; cups with five leaves ;flowers with four fertile chives; blollbrasirregular. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalemeut. 2. The Chives fpreaJ open, and magnified. 3. The Pointalj and Seed buds, magnified. This pretty Geranium is rather a delicate plant, and muft be kept very dry in the winter; as, fromthe fituation of its brandies, which are prellcd to the earth, a

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