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
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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)utcd to us. VOL, V.— NO. L. E 26 HEMEROCALLIS SIEBOLDII. It thrives best in a rather rich soil, and is perfectly hardy; it is also a freeflowering plant, and may be readily propagated from seeds or oflfsets; but, unlikemost of the other species of the genus, it is deciduous. We believe plants of it maybe obtained at the Epsom Nursery at a moderate cost. The generic name is derived from hemera, a day, and hallos, beauty, in allusionto the short time the flowers remain expanded. The specific name is given in honour of Dr. Von Siebold, by whom it is said tohave been introduced.
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tci^/i^ CdeaZfJ LIATRIS BOREALIS. _ (northern liathis.) CLASS. ORDER. SYNGENESIA. natural order.COMPOSITjE. ^QUALIS Generic CnARACTER—Ca/yA oblong, intricate. Pappus feathen-. Receptacle naked, dotted. Seedsfurrowed, hairy. Specific Character.—Plant an herbaceous perennial, growing from a foot to eighteen inches high. Leavesovate, acute, slightly downy. Flowers terminal, capitate, pink. Florets tubular, four or five cleft.Roots tuberous. Among the numerous beautiful objects which are continually being introducedinto this country from the New World, for the purpose of ornamenting our flower-gardens and pleasure-grounds, some recommend themselves to our notice on accountof the size and splendour of their flowers, while others attract our attention by thesimplicity and neatness of their general appearance. Of this latter class is theplant now before us, which, though it does not possess that brilliancy of colour andboldness of habit so remarkable in some species of Pentstemon, &c

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