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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ot. Little is yet known with regard to its cultivation, but it is certain that itrequires to be kept in a dormant state during the winter months, as the foliagedecays immediately after it has ceased flowering; in the spring, or perhaps thesummer, it should again be excited into action, by repotting and administeringwater to it, though this latter should be done with caution. It appears to flourishin a rather rich soil. The drawing here given was taken from a plant which flowered in the nurseryof Messrs. Young of Epsom, in October 1837, where it was received a short timeprevious from the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and plants of it may be procured fromthis nursery. When in flower it was the dehght and admiration of all who wit-nessed it, and was a most attractive ornament to the stove. The generic name refers to the singular fact of the capsules bursting whentouched or placed in contact with any object, and evolving the seeds. The specific name of course applies to the habits of the plant.
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JUNE I IS3£ T.j/f///?// (.1 ion ASTELMA EXIMIUM. (fine ASTELMA.)CLASS. OllDF.a. SYNGENESIS. POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. NATURAL ORDER, COMPOSIT.E. CrENERic CHARACTER.—Receptucle naked (neither chaffy nor honey-combed). Pappris featherv, sessile ;rays connate at the base. Involucrum (calyx) imbricated, with scarious scales, the innermost ofwhich are connivent. Bot. Reg. 538. Specific Character Leaves sessile, ovate, close, erect, downy. Corymb sessile. Lotidotis Ency. of Plants. The genus Astelma, of which the species here figured was the origin, was firstseparated from Gnaphalium by that distinguished botanist Mr. R. Brown, on ac-count of the difference in its character to that of the geni;s just named, which willbe perceived by reference to the description above given. Since that time, how-ever, it has received several accessions from the genus Helichrysum, referred hitherTjy Mr. D. Don, and it is so closely allied to the latter genus, that JMr. Brownstates the only difference that exist

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