likewise by cuttings. Requires, and thrives well with, the common
treatment of a green-house or conservatory plant; and deserves a place
in every extensive collection. Our drawing was made from a specimen in
the Nursery of Messrs. Colvil, in the King’s Road.
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PLATE CCCLXXXIV.
XERANTHEMUM VARIEGATUM.
_Variegated Eternal Flower._
CLASS XIX. ORDER II.
_SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA._ Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
RECEPTACULUM paleaceum, aut nudum. Pappus setaceus. Calyx
imbricatus, radiatus; radio colorato.
RECEPTACLE chaffy, or naked. Feather bristly. Empalement
tiled, rayed: the ray coloured.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
XERANTHEMUM, floribus solitariis nutantibus, squamis
calycinis obtusis maculatis.
XERANTHEMUM, with solitary nodding flowers, and the scales of
the empalement obtuse and spotted.
XERANTHEMUM variegatum. _Syst. Veg. 614._--_Syst. Veg.
Litchf. ed. 2. p. 614._--_Reich. Syst. Pl. pars 3. 766._
XERANTHEMUM africanum Gnaphalii foliis tomentosis, foliis et
squamorum summitatibus ferrugineis. _Raii Suppl. 181._
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. An hermaphrodite floret magnified.
2. The chives, pointal, and seed-bud magnified.
3. One of the scales of the empalement.
4. The receptacle.
The Xeranthemum variegatum is a small shrub, and seldom attains the
height of two feet. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and
was lately introduced from that country to the collection of George
Hibbert, esq. where our drawing was taken in the month of May. It
requires the same treatment as the other species of the genus, and is
propagated in the same manner. The leaves are linear-lanced, embrace
the stem alternately, and when old are often reflexed in an imbricated
manner: they are clothed, as well as the stems, with wool; and resemble
fine woollen cloth to the touch, and often have their edges and points
of a purplish rusty colour. The bracteated peduncles are from one to
three in number, at the end of each branch. The young flowers are more
highly coloured than the old ones, which sometimes assume a nodding
attitude: when aged they bleach almost white, except the points of the
calycine scales, which always retain a purplish blotch.
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PLATE CCCLXXXV.
CAMPANULA LACINIATA.
_Ragwort-leaved Bell Flower._
CLASS V. ORDER I.
_PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA campanulata, fundo clauso valvis staminiferis. Stigma
3-fidum. Capsula infera, poris lateralibus dehiscens.
COROLLA bell-shaped with the mouth closed by staminiferous
valves. Summit 3-cleft. Capsule beneath, gaping with lateral pores.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
CAMPANULA, capsulis obtectis pedunculatis, foliis serratis;
radicalibus lyratis; caulinis lanceolatis.
BELL FLOWER, with pedunculated covered capsules, and serrated
leaves; the root ones lyrated; the stem ones spear-shaped.
CAMPANULA laciniata. _Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 911._
CAMPANULA Græca, saxatilis, Jacobeæ foliis. _Tourn. Voyage 1.
201._ cum icone.--_Coroll. Inst. Rei Herb. 3._
DESCRIPTIO. Herba undique villosa. _Radix_ biennis. _Folia_
radicalia lyrato-pinnatifida, pinnulis incisis; caulina alterna,
sublanceolata, inciso-serrata. _Pedunculi_ bracteis subovatis dentatis
instructi. _Flores_ numerosi cærulei.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The blossom laid open.
3. The seed-bud, chives and pointal.
4. A chive magnified.
5. The seed-bud and pointal, the summit magnified.
The Campanula laciniata, although introduced into the British gardens
so long since as the year 1790, is still a very scarce species: this is
not owing to a want of beauty, but to its having a biennial root, and
not perfecting its seeds well, except in favourable situations. It was
originally discovered by the celebrated French traveller and botanist
Tournefort, about a century since, on a remarkable rock in the Island
of Sikino in Greece; where he appears to have been highly delighted
with its beauty and appearance, and says it is “_the fairest Campanula
in all Greece_[B].” However applicable this encomium may have been
in those days, it ceases to be so now; for, without detracting from
the fairness and beauty of the present plant, we have in cultivation
another Grecian Campanula, still more fair and beautiful, and much more
rare, which we hope soon to have the pleasure of presenting to our
subscribers.
The Ragwort-leaved Campanula is usually treated as an alpine plant,
and wintered in a frame: it is increased by seeds, and is impatient of
superfluous moisture.
[B] Tournefort’s Voyage, vol. i. page 201.
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PLATE CCCLXXXVI.
ANTHERICUM PUGIONIFORME.
_Dagger-leaved Anthericum._
CLASS VI. ORDER I.
_HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX patens aut connivens. Stamina filamentis filiformibus
hirsutis. Stigma 1. Semina angulata. _Juss. Gen. Pl. 52._
EMPALEMENT expanding or converging. Chives thread-shaped
hairy. Summit 1. Seeds angulated.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
ANTHERICUM, foliis carnosis linearibus acuminatis
canaliculatis, scapo foliis duplo longiore.
ANTHERICUM, with fleshy linear acuminated channelled leaves,
with a stalk twice their length.
ANTHERICUM pugioniforme. _Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 144._
ANTHERICUM filamentis barbatis acaule, radice subrotunda
perenni, foliis crasso-subulatis antice sulcatis apice teretibus
pulposis erectis. _Jacq. Ic. rar. 2. t. 405._
PETALA sex, oblonga, obtusa, plana, patentissima, lutea, cum
fascia longitudinali media utrinque viridi. Filamenta subulata patula,
petalis breviora, flavescentia, circa medium omnia ex viridi-flavo
dense barbata. Antheræ oblongæ, flavæ. Germen ovatum, superum. Stylus
filiformis, erectus, longitudine staminum. Stigma obtusum. _Jacq.
Collect. Supp. 83._
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The seed-bud, chives and pointal.
2. A chive magnified.
3. The seed-bud and pointal.
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was sent some time
since to the collection of G. Hibbert, esq. Clapham Common; where
our figure was taken last autumn. It is rather more singular in
its appearance, than beautiful; but is at present extremely rare,
and deserves a place in all collections; prefers the treatment of
a green-house succulent plant, and requires much air; but must be
carefully defended from superfluous humidity; particularly when not in
a state of active growth; and is best kept constantly in the house. Is
propagated by parting its roots, but not very readily: and requires a
light, dry soil.
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PLATE CCCLXXXVII.
XERANTHEMUM RIGIDUM.
_Rigid-leaved Eternal Flower._
CLASS XIX. ORDER II.
_SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA._ Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
RECEPTACULUM paleaceum, aut nudum. Pappus setaceus. Calyx
imbricatus, radiatus; radio colorato.
RECEPTACLE chaffy, or naked. Feather bristly. Empalement
tiled, rayed; the ray coloured.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
XERANTHEMUM, floribus parvis paniculatis; foliis villosis
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis viridibus.
XERANTHEMUM, with small paniculated flowers; and hairy
linear-lanced sharp-pointed green leaves.
DESCRIPTIO. Suffrutex, ramulis teretibus, subflexuosis,
villosis. _Folia_, superiora remotiora, alterna, amplexicaulia,
lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, canaliculata, rigida, villosa, viridia,
superne patula. _Flores_ paniculati, terminales, parvi in hoc genere,
et inconspicui. _Pedunculi_ lanuginoso-villosi, bracteati. _Calyces_
argentei. _Corollulæ_ flavicantes.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A scale of the empalement.
2. One of the hermaphrodite florets magnified.
3. The chives and pointal.
4. The receptacle.
The plant here delineated is by no means a conspicuous one;
nevertheless, as it is a genuine member of a favourite genus, and at
the same time a new species, and almost the last of its fine family
we shall be able to present to our readers, it cannot fail to be
acceptable to them.
The present species is a weak shrubby plant, flowers freely, and
succeeds with the treatment of the other eternal flowers, and is
propagated in the same manner: and was lately raised from Cape seeds at
our never-failing source of rare plants, the choice collection of G.
Hibbert, esq. where the figure here given was made in May last.
It is very closely allied to X. argenteum of our 327th plate, which is
the X. paniculatum of Thunberg and the younger Linnæus.
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PLATE CCCLXXXVIII.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM INCLAUDENS.
_Unclosing-flowered Fig-Marygold._
CLASS XII. ORDER IV.
_ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA._ Twenty Chives. Five Pointals.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
PETALA valde numerosa, linearia, basi cohærentia.
PETALS very numerous, linear, cohering at the base.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM, foliis triquetris lævibus perviridibus,
carinâ gibbosâ, corollis inclandentibus, petalis interioribus valde
abbreviatis imbricatisque.
FIG-MARYGOLD, with triquetrous smooth deep green leaves,
with a gibbous keel, unclosing flowers, and interior petals extremely
abbreviated and imbricated.
DESCRIPTIO. M. mutabili nobis affinis, sed species valde
distincta: differt in his, foliis lævioribus, et longe viridioribus,
minusque mucronatis, marginibus sæpius plus minusve purpureis:
floribus speciosis semper apertis; nec inconspicuis, nocteque clausis;
saturatissime et vivacissime rubicundis, petalis cuneato-linearibus,
latis in hoc genere, apicibus erosis; interioribus (petalis) maxime
abbreviatis, imbricatisque quasi in stellam. _Calyx_ subanceps,
5-fidus, membranis rubro punctatis. _Filamenta_ recondita, brevissima
omnium (vix linearia), alba, basi purpurea. _Antheræ_ albidæ, circiter
longitudinem filamentorum. _Styli_ 5, erecti, pergrossi, virides,
altitudine antherarum. Capsulam non vidi. _H._
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement, seed-bud, chives and pointals.
2. The same cut perpendicularly, to show the insertion of the chives
and pointal.
Our figure represents a perfectly new and nondescript, and at the same
time very ornamental species of Mesembryanthemum: each flower possesses
the valuable property of lasting about ten days in beauty, and never
closes after being once expanded: a circumstance of exceeding rare
occurrence in this very extensive genus; no fewer than 214 distinct
species of which we have now a knowledge of[C].
M. inclaudens rises with a branched, shrubby stem, to the height of 10
or 12 inches, and is cultivated in the same manner, and propagated with
the same facility, that is common and well known in this tribe: they
are all very hardy green-house plants; require in winter as much air
as possible, if frost is but avoided; strike freely from cuttings; are
great lovers of hot, sunny and sheltered situations, when out for the
summer; and are better not watered over their heads, but at the roots
only.
The present species was raised from Cape seeds last season, in the
collection of G. Hibbert, esq. where our drawing was made in July.
Mr. Ross, Nurseryman at Stoke Newington, has also raised it from Cape
seeds, and flowered it in July; and he likewise very fortunately
flowered at the same time several fine specimens of M. rostratum; the
fructifications of which have not been produced before in Europe, that
we know of, although the plant has been common in the English gardens
ever since the year 1732, and is one of the very few which Dillenius
thought proper to figure without flowers, in his celebrated Hortus
Elthamensis.
[C] 211 are described in my Miscellanea Naturalia, lately published.
_H._
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PLATE CCCLXXXIX.
DOMBEYA ERYTHROXYLON.
_Saint Helena Red-wood._
CLASS XVI. ORDER VII.
_MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA._ Threads united. Twelve Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX duplex, exterior 3-phyllus deciduus. Corolla 5-petala.
Stamina 10-20, quorum 5 sterilia. Stylus 5-fidus. Capsulæ 5, coalitæ
uniloculares, 1. s. polyspermæ.
EMPALEMENT double, outer 3-leaved deciduous. Corolla
5-petalled. Chives 10 to 20, of which 5 are sterile. Style 5-cleft.
Capsules 5, conjoined one-celled, 1-or many-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
DOMBEYA, foliis ovatis acuminatis cordatis, subtus tomentosis
reticulatis, pedunculis subtrifloris, floribus pentandris.
DOMBEYA, with ovate acuminated heart-shaped leaves, downy
and reticulated beneath, peduncles about 3-flowered, and pentandrous
flowers.
DOMBEYA Erythroxylon. _Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 725._
PENTAPETES Erythroxylon, foliis cordatis subcrenatis subtus
tomentosis rugoso-reticulatis, floribus subumbellatis decandris. _Ait.
Hort. Kew. 2. 438._
ALCÆA arborea, populi nigræ foliis, prona parte albicantibus,
flore amplissimo rubicundo. _Pluk. Mant. 6. t. 333. f. 1._
DESCRIPTIO. Frutex dumosus; ramulis, petiolis teretibus,
paginis inferioribus foliorum, pedunculis calycibusque
tomentoso-canis, et ferrugineo dense punctulatis. _Folia_ alterna,
petiolata, cordata, subintegra, supra perviridia, utraque
venosa, subtus obsolete reticulata. _Flores_ malvacei, speciosi.
_Calyx_ duplex, exterior minutus, 3-phyllus, foliolis subulatis,
sesquilinearibus, superior 5-phyllus, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis,
acuminatis. _Petala_ 5, alba, retuse cuneata, venosa, basi uno latere,
gibbosa, imbricata. _Stamina_, filamenta 10, atra, patula, quorum 5
sterilia, cæteris duplo longiora. _Antheæ_ erectæ luteæ. _Stylus_
teres, albus, 5-fidus, antheras superans.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. One of the petals.
3. The chives and pointal.
4. The chives spread open.
5. The pointal and seed-bud.
The handsome plant here represented is a native of Saint Helena, and
is known by the name of Saint Helena Red-wood. Although introduced
into this country by Sir Joseph Banks in the year 1772, it is at
this time one of our very rarest and most desirable of hot-house
plants. Mr. Aiton enumerates it in the Hortus Kewensis, but marks no
time for its flowering; which therefore, we must suppose, but seldom
occurs. Our specimen was obligingly sent us by T. Evans, esq. from
his fine collection at Stepney in June 1803, and we last month saw it
beautifully in bloom at the honourable Charles Greville’s, Paddington.
In the colour of its flowers, and in other particulars, it appears
to vary. Plukenet calls them rubicund: ours were white: and in
the extensive herbarium of A. B. Lambert, esq. we have examined a
Saint Helena specimen with purple flowers, and less hoary but more
reticulated leaves, which wanted the minute ferruginous spotting so
abundant upon ours. It is propagated by cuttings in the usual way.
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PLATE CCCXC.
AMARYLLIS SPECTABILIS.
_Waved-leaved Amaryllis._
CLASS VI. ORDER I.
_HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA hexapetaloidea irregularis. Filamenta fauci tubi
inserta declinata inæqualia proportione vel directione.
COROLLA 6-petal-like irregular. Chives inserted into the
throat of the tube, bent downward, and unequal in proportion or
direction.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
AMARYLLIS, spatha multiflora, tubo corollæ laciniis
sesquilongiore, foliis lato-subulatis serrulatisque scapo longioribus.
AMARYLLIS, with a many-flowered sheath, the tube of the
corolla longer than its segments, the leaves broad-awl-shaped
serrulated and longer than the stalk.
DESCRIPTIO. _Radix_ bulbus mediocris tunicatus, et
rotundatus, pallidusque. _Folia_ multifaria, lato-subulata,
sesquipedalia, subcanaliculata, lævia, viridia, carinâ pallidâ,
striisque parallelis ad lucem utrinque etiam pallidis; basin versus
undulata, et aliquo attenuata; margine cartilagineo, serrulis
minutissimis, expansis, albis, remotisque, aspero. _Scapus_ foliis
duplo brevior, rubens, grossus, obtuse compressus, obsolete at
irregulariter sulcato-striatulus, æquali crassitie. _Spatha_ diphylla,
subquadriflora, valida, foliolis lineatis, apicibus obtusissimis, et
minute emarginatis, intus albis, extus virentibus, tinctura rubedinis.
_Flores_ sessiles, hexapetaloidei, tubulosi: tubus curvatus,
angulatus, sulcatus, 5-uncialis et ultra, at gracilis, laciniis
sesquilongior. _Petala_ late lanceolata, undulata, acuta, alba, vittâ
purpureâ. _Filamenta_ alba, declinata, laciniis longe breviora.
_Antheræ_ versatiles, arcuatæ, magnæ, demum atræ. _Germen_ sessile,
compressum, viride. _Stylus_ albus, superne purpureus, antheras
superans. _Stigma_ minutum. Infra germina, filamenta perpauca,
staminiformia, sæpius adsunt.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A petal with its chive attached.
2. The seed-bud and pointal.
The magnificent species of Amaryllis here represented is a native
of Sierra Leona; and was introduced from thence to this country,
by Professor Afzelius, several years ago; but has not yet been
described by any author whose works have reached us: although it
will unquestionably be inserted in the Flora of that part of Africa,
which the abovementioned learned Botanist is said to be preparing for
publication.
Although a very tender hot-house species, it flowers freely in the
tan-bed, in rich earth; but its elegant flowers, like those of
Amaryllis ornata, which it also resembles in foliage, are of very short
duration, and do not individually last in full beauty longer than a
day; unless they are taken out of the hot-house as soon as expanded,
and placed in some cool apartment; which indeed they well deserve. Our
figure was taken from plants in very great perfection, at J. Vere’s,
esq. Kensington Gore, in the month of July.
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PLATE CCCXCI.
NYMPHÆA LOTUS.
_The Ægyptian Lotus._
CLASS XIII. ORDER I.
_POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Many Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA polypetala. Calyx 4-s. 5-phyllus. Bacca
multilocularis, loculis polyspermis.
BLOSSOM many-petaled. Empalement 4-or 5-leaved. Berry
many-celled, with many seeds in each cell.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
NYMPHÆA, foliis cordatis dentatis glaberrimis lobis
approximatis, calyce tetraphyllo. _Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 1153._
NYMPHÆA, with heart-shaped dentated very smooth leaves, with
the lobes approximated, and a four-leaved empalement.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The seed-bud and pointal. 2. A chive. 3. A transverse section of the
seed-bud. 4. A capsule.
There can be no doubt, but that the plant here figured is the true
“Nymphæa Lotus” of Linnæus, and that it is the plant mentioned by Pliny
in Nat. Hist. lib. 13. cap. 17. and lib. 22. cap. 21. He there makes
mention of a plant which is found at the ebbing of the Nile, the fruit
of which resembles a poppy, and the seed of the size of millet: this
exactly answers to the “Nymphæa” before us, and does not at all apply
to the “Nelumbium,” the kernels of which are of the size of nuts or
thereabouts: he also remarks that the heads are dried by the natives,
and that the seed is beat and broken and made into bread.--Herodotus
also mentions that the Egyptians baked the seed into bread, and ate of
the roots, or rather tubercles, which resembled an apple and had an
agreeable flavour. Vide Euterpe 92--Melpomene 177.
Sonnini, in his Voyages, mentions the Lotus as being most abundant in
Egypt, and having _white flowers_; and I apprehend the red one to be
nothing but a variety of this.
When we know that the Egyptians worship the Nile, as the Indians do the
Ganges, we cannot wonder that a plant so beautiful, and so abundant in
that river, should also become an object of adoration; and we find it
continually though roughly engraved on their idols.--Indeed Pierius,
in his Hieroglyphics, mentions that the Egyptians worshipped the Lotus
as the type of the rising Sun.--It is always found on the statues of
Osiris, the Egyptian Apollo; it is also to be seen on the medals struck
in Egypt by the Romans, and especially during the reign of Adrian, who
held it in such veneration, that the medals which that Emperor caused
to be struck in Egypt, in honour of his favourite Antinoüs, uniformly
represent the latter with the Lotus on his head; whence the expression
“Antinoëan crown.”--Various animals in the Hieroglyphics appear to have
it, as the hawk, the lion, and the ram. It is to be seen on most of,
though not all, their deities; as Jupiter Ammon, Iris, Serapis, Orus,
Canopus, and most particularly on Harpocrates, who is often figured
sitting in the midst of it.--See Cuper’s Harpocrates, passim. The Lotus
symbolizes Plenty on many of the medals of Egypt and Sicily, probably
from being so great an article of food among the inhabitants, and from
its generally appearing at the reflux of the Nile, when the banks were
again open to the various uses they might be put to. Whether or not
the Lotus here figured, which I think I have sufficiently proved to be
the true Egyptian one, is the same which grows in the Ganges, and is
in such high veneration throughout the continent of India, China, and
Japan, can only be proved by a comparison of the two together: certain
however it is, that a plant of great similarity to it, if not quite the
same, is to be found on most of their idols also; and as the Ganges is
worshipped so may the Lotus be, with which it abounds. It expands in
the dusk of the evening, and closes about ten in the morning.
To the Right Honourable the Marquis of Blandford we are indebted for
the description of this very interesting plant, accompanied by a fine
living specimen from his splendid collection at White Knights near
Reading, Berks.
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PLATE CCCXCII.
IXIA COLUMNARIS, _var. angustifolia_.
_Columnar-chived Ixia. Narrowed-leaved Var._
CLASS III. ORDER I.
_TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Three Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA sex-petala patens æqualis. Stigmata tria
erectiusculo-patula.
BLOSSOM 6-petals spreading equal. Summits three
upright-spreading.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
IXIA, filamentis basi cohærentibus; floribus subcapitatis,
petalis purpureis basi saturatioribus, foliis lineari-ensiformibus.
IXIA, with threads united at the base, flowers rather in
heads, petals purple with darker bases, and linear-sword-shaped leaves.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The two valves of the sheath.
2. An entire flower, cut open in the tube only, which is extended
nearly to the end of the threads.
3. The chives cut open and magnified.
4. The pointal complete, one of the summits detached and magnified.
The figure which accompanies this description represents the
narrowest-leaved variety of the columnar-chived Ixia hitherto
introduced into the British gardens.
Like the other varieties already figured in this work, it is a native
of the Cape of Good Hope; and like them must be treated as a Cape-bulb;
requiring only the protection of the green-house, and a mixture of loam
and peat; and no water during its quiescent state.
It flowers in June or July, and is a very brilliant variety. Our figure
was taken some time since at Messrs. Colvill’s, Nurserymen in the
King’s Road.
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PLATE CCCXCIII.
FUMARIA FORMOSA.
_Beautiful Fumitory._
CLASS XVII. ORDER II.
_DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA._ Two Brotherhoods. Six Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX diphyllus. Corolla ringens. Filamenta duo membranacea,
singula antheris tribus.
EMPALEMENT two-leaved. Blossom gaping. Threads two,
membranaceous, each with three tips.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
FUMARIA, scapis erectis, pedunculis cernuis subtrifloris
bracteatis, corollis basi bilobis.
FUMITORY, with erect stalks, cernuous nearly 3-flowered
bracteated peduncles, and blossoms two-lobed at the base.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A flower spread open, showing the insertion of the chives, with one
filament detached and magnified.
3. The seed-bud and pointal, the summit magnified.