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Title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 3
Or, Flower-Garden Displayed

Author: William Curtis

Release Date: February 3, 2006 [EBook #17672]

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. III.~

"The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns;
The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown,
And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort,
And mar the face of beauty, when no cause
For such immeasurable woe appears;
These Flora banishes, and gives the fair
Sweet smiles and bloom, less transient than her own."
COWPER.

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.

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MONSONIA SPECIOSA. LARGE-FLOWER'D MONSONIA.

_Class and Order._

POLYADELPHIA DODECANDRIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Stam._ 15. connata in 5 filamenta.
_Stylus_ 5-fidus. _Caps._ 5-cocca.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

MONSONIA _speciosa_ foliis quinatis: foliolis bipinnatis, _Li