Identifier: botanicalregiste04edwa (find matches)
Title: The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Floriculture Botany
Publisher: (London : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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rds strawcoloured. Bractes single, convo-lutely ovate, with a long point, twice shorter than thepedicles or more, these last being about an inch and a halfin length. Corolla rotately campanulate, about an inchand a half across, converging over the germen soon afterexpansion, at no time completely and flatly expanded, seg-ments elliptically oblong, nearly equal, concave, lappingover each other by the edges of the sides. Stamens 3 timesshorter than the corolla, from upright spreading, bent in-wards at the top, (i^h-Qolowv^A, Jilaments subulate, wingedat the lower part, the T^^ngs of the alternate ones broaderand deeper than those of the others, and furnished at the top\x\t\\ two blunt-topped convergent teeth. Germen ash-coloured, oblong, obtusely three-cornered, slightly 6-fur-rowed; stifle continuous, short, thickish, three-cornered:stigma 3-lobedly headed, slightly pubescent, shorter thanthe style. An ornamental greenhouse plant of easy culture. Propa-gated by otfsets from the bulb. V
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306 BOSSI^A dnerea.Sharp-leaved Bossicea. DIADELPHIA DECANBRIA. Nat. ord, Leguminos^e. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. BOSSI^A. Ca/. bilabiatus: labio superiore majore semiblfido obtuso.Sta7n. omnia connexa. Legumen plano-compressura, pedicellatum, poly-spermum, margine utroque incrassatum. Sem. strophiolata. Brovon inHort. Kevo. ed. 2. 4. 266. B. cinerea, ramis foliosis teretibus, caule erecto ramosissimo, foliis ovato-lanceolatis; supra scabris; subtus pubescentibus; raarginibus recurvis.Brovon in loc. cit. 268.Bossiaea calcarata. Herb. Banks, Fruticulus erectusj strictus, paniculato-ramosus, ramis suhalterniSf sim»pliciduSf lanato-villosis. Fol. niimerosa, proxiina, alterna v. nunc in summi&ramis opposita, patentissiina, brevissime peiiolata, semuncialia v. ultras longeacuminata mucrone spinijormi, margine deflexo denticidato-scahrata^ supr^corrugato-venosa, pubesce7itia parca et caduca^ subtus villoso-cinerascentianervis varicosis: petiolus glanduloso-crassus, rugosus, stipulatus:

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