Identifier: floralcabinetmaIIIKnow (find matches)
Title: The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Knowles, G. B. (George Beauchamp), 1829-1852 Westcott, Frederic, -1861 Baxter, W. Henry, former owner. DSI Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI Bradbury & Evans, printer Day & Haghe, printer of plates
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Gardening
Publisher: London : William Smith
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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and was raised from seeds which were received from Van Diemens Land,and presented to that establishment by J. W. Crompton, Esq., in 1835. It is avery neat and upright-growing shrub, and well adapted for growing against asouth wall, being nearly hardy ; as a specimen, planted out in the garden of theSociety in an exposed situation, was not killed by the winter of 1837-8. Theplants raised from the above seeds produced a few flowers in the spring of lastyear ; in the April of the present year they were beautifully covered with blossoms,and are now perfecting their seeds. The soil most congenial to its growth is a mixture of loam, peat and sand, inwhich compost it should be potted. It can be readily increased by cuttings fromthe young wood, which should be subjected to a little bottom heat. It may besafely protected by the cold frame during the winter. The generic name is of doubtful origin. The specific name diosmcsfolia alludesto the form of the leaves, which resemble those of a diosma.
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G7 DIPLACUS PUNICEUS. (Crimson Diplacus.) LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL OEDER. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMI A, * SCROPHULARIACE^E. GENERIC CHARACTER. Diplacus. (Nutt.) Calyx prismaticus apice 5-fidus. Corolla ringens 5-fida, lobis sub-jequalibus plerumque emarginatis. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula lineari-oblonga, bilocularis.Placenta (sive receptaculum seminis) lata, demum bipartita, adnata. Semina utrinque subulata.Frutices Californicse, Mimulo proximse. Folia opposita plerumque viscosa.— Nutt. Calyx prismatic, divided into parts at the apex. Corolla gaping, divided into five parts,mostly unequal, emarginate. Stigma formed of two plates. Capsule linear, oblong, 2-celled.Placenta, or the receptacle with the seeds, broad, afterwards divided into 2 parts, adnate. Seedson each side, subulat e. Shrubs inhabitants of California, and near to the genus Mimulus. Leavesopposite, for the most part clammy. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.D. puniceus; fruticosus ramosissimus viscosus pubescens; foliis lineari-lanceolati

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