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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gs of the young shoots, but as theyare of a succulent and watery nature, great care is necessary to preserve themfrom perishing through excessive moisture ; and they should always be planted inpure sand. This plant was introduced to this country from Caraccas, where it was firstobserved by those eminent naturalists, Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, aboutfive hundred toises above the level of the sea, and it flowered for the first timein this country in the stove of Mr. Herbert of Spofforth, in 1819. It is usedmedicinally as an emetic by the inhabitants of the district in which it is found. It is worthy of remark that plants with blue flowers are comparatively rare inour collections of stove and greenhouse plants, and this impai-ts to the subject ofthe present drawing additional value, and should induce cultivators to devote in-creasing attention to its cultivation. In its native country this plant is usually designated Angelon, and from thiscircumstance it has received its generic name.
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MAV I. 18JS . ^yz/aJa //z/^ii-u^t 77 LOASA LATERITIA. (red-flowered loas*.) CLASS. OllDKR. POLYADELrPIIA, POLYANDRIA. NATURAL ORDFR. LOASE^. Generic Character.— Ca/?/a? five-leaved. Petals Gxe, JVectart/five-leaxed. Capsules half inienor,one-celled, half three-valved, many-seeded.—Loudons Enc^/clopcBclia of Plants. Specikic Character Plant suffruticose, hispid in all its parts. Stem climbing, slightly branched, Leaves alternate lobate, lobes jagged, acute, slightly curved at the points; lower ones on footstalks,upper destitute of them. Peduncles axillary, one-9owered, six inches in length- Flowers of abright brick-red colour, approaching to scarlet; abundant. Petals ten ; the five outer ones large,keeled, slightly cucullate ; the inner five, small, yellow, cucullate, containing a saccharine secretion.Stamens numerous, disposed in five bundles, fronting each of the outer petals. Ovarium inferior,one-celled, many-seeded, densely set -with hairs. In an age wlien our collections are c

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