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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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open, the Chives in their place. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit; with the fummit detached, magnified. The oval-leaved Cerbera is a native of the continent of South America, in Brazil and the other pro-vinces within the tropics; therefore, mull be treated as a tender hothoufe plant. It is increafed bycuttings, delights moft in a rich foil, and flowers in July, or Augult. It is faid to acquire the heightoften feet, in its native clime, but, with us, it feldom attains to three; becoming a handfome, buhyihrub. The flowers have a faint fmell, as have moft of this natural order; the whole plant is repletewith a whitiih juice, of a moft deleterious quality; and the wood when rubbed emits a difagreeableodour. The fruit is considered by the indians as a deadly poifon againft which there is no antidote.Our figure was taken from a plant in the Hibbertian Collection, Clapham. Introduced to England,(or rather cultivated about that period) fays the Kew Catalogue, by Mr. Miller, in the year 1730.
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(>, r/r/if , ///, ■///■// PLATE CCXXXII. IXIA CAPITATA. r„, s*u*». Bunch-flowering Ixla. Far. Star-flowered. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 6 partita, paten», sequalis. Stigm3tatria, erectiulculopatula. Blossom 6divi(5ons, fpreading, equal. Summitsthree, between upright and fpreading.See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliolis enfiformibus, ereftis, fcnpo brevio-ribus; fioribus cipi talis, contertis, pallidecameis; petahs ba(i fteUatk. Ixia with fword-ihaped leaves, upright fhorterthan the Item; flowers grow in heads,crowded, of a pale flelh-colourj petalsItarred at the bafe. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two valves of the fheath. 2. A flower cut open, the Chives remaining. 3. Ihe Pointal. As w-e cannot think this plant pofierTVs fuflieient diflinftive character, to entitle it to a particularfpecitic title, we have placed it as above; although we mult confefs that the root,

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