Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo05paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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inSeptember, with five flowers all expanded at once; the number of flowers wasobviously occasioned by its being planted in the open border of the greenhouse;for the plant at Messrs. Rollison s, from which our drawing was taken, and whichwas kept ir a pot, only produced one flower; however, it might doubtless flowerwell in a pot if it had an abundance of pot room, which seems to be the mostimportant feature in the cultivation of it. Increased by offsets. The drawing was made in August 1837, from a plant then in flower in Messrs. VOL. v. NO. XLIX. B 2 LILIUM SPECIOSUM. Rollisons Nursery, Tooting, where plants may be procured; also at Messrs.Loddiges, Knights, and at Youngs, Epsom. The generic name is taken from the Celtic word Li, signifying whiteness, ofwhich colour the lily has always been considered the emblem. The specific name has been most appropriately given by Dr. Lindley; theplant has usually gone under the name of L. lancifolium, which. Dr. Lindley says,is a different species.
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-/Cfy////////1 O/yj ^ »> KB ACONITUM CHINENSE. (CHINESE ACONITE.)CLASS. ORDER. POLYANDRIA. TRI-PENTAGYNIA, NATURAL ORDER. RANUNCULACEiE. Generic Character.—Calyx of five petal-like irregular, deciduous or macescent sepals, ■with tlie uppersepal concave and belaiet-shapcd. Petals two (or hollow nectaries), hidden within the helmet onlong stalks, expanded into a hollow inverted tube at the apex, drawn out at the ends into a spur,•which is either straight, hooked, or twisted.—Dons St/siem of Gardening and Botany, p. 55. Specific Character Plant an herbaceous perennial, growing from four to five feet high. Stem erect, slightly branched. Leaves alternate, nearly sessile, partially divided into five unequal lobes, some-what trapeziform, acute, deeply toothed, the upper surface of a deep green, assuming, when old, apurple cast, the under surface of a very light green. J/ower* produced terminally, as well as on shortlateral shoots at the axil of each leaf. Calyx deciduous. Corolla

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