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Title: The Botanical Magazine v 2
or Flower-Garden Displayed
Author: William Curtis
Release Date: January 16, 2006 [EBook #17531]
Language: English
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THE
~BOTANICAL MAGAZINE~;
OR,
~FLOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED~:
IN WHICH
The most Ornamental FOREIGN PLANTS, cultivated in the Open
Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in
their natural Colours.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to
the celebrated LINNAEUS; their Places of Growth, and Times of
Flowering:
TOGETHER WITH
THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE.
A WORK
Intended for the Use of such LADIES, GENTLEMEN, and
GARDENERS, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the
Plants they cultivate.
~By WILLIAM CURTIS~,
Author of the FLORA LONDINENSIS.
~VOL. II~
"A Garden is the purest of human Pleasures."
VERULAM.
LONDON:
Printed by COUCHMAN and FRY, Throgmorton-Street,
For W. CURTIS, at his BOTANIC-GARDEN, Lambeth-Marsh;
And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland.
M DCC XC.
[37]
~Chironia Frutescens. Shrubby Chironia.~
_Class and Order._
~Pentandria Monogynia.~
_Generic Character._
_Cor._ rotata. _Pistillum_ declinatum. _Stamina_ tubo corollae
infidentia. _Antherae_ demum spirales. _Peric._ 2-loculare.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
CHIRONIA _frutescens_, foliis lanceolatis subtomentosis, calycibus
campanulatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 229._
CENTAURIUM foliis binis oppositis angustis linearibus, flore magno
rubente. _Burm. Afric. 205. t. 74. fig. 1._
[Illustration: No 37]
Of the genus _Chironia_, ten species a
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