Curtis's 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 Volume 47 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ...8-valvis. Specific Character and Synonym. Sect. 5. Brevissorce. D. Corollae cylindricae vel superne dilatat . Erica propendcns; floribus terminalibus, bracteis a calyce remotis, antlieris muticis, foliolis calycinis ovatis. Hort. Kew. ed. ait. 2. p. 397. Erica propendens. Andrews' s Heaths, vol. 2. Lodd. Bol. Cab.v. 1. t. 63. A very beautiful heath, which seldom exceeds a foot in height, and is generally covered with a profusion of flowers in the spring months. It rarely matures its seed with us, but is readily propagated by cuttings. Communicated by Messrs. Loddiges and Sons. Vicia Tenu i Folia. Fine-leaved Vetch. C7ass and Order. Diadei.phia Decandria.-Generic Character. Stigma latere inferiore tranversim barbatum. Specific Character and Synonyms. Vicia tenuifolia; pedunculis multifloris folio duplo longiori bus, floribus imbricatis, foliolis iinearibus glabriusculis trinerviis, stipulis superioribus simplicissimis, legumi-nibus comprcssis hexaspermis. Wahlenberg Flor. Carpal, p. 221. Vicia tenuifolia; pedunculis multifloris folio longioribus, floribus imbricatis, foliolis linearibus glabriusculis trinerviis, stipulis linearibus integerrimis. Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 1099. Vicia tenuifolia; pedunculis multifloris, floribus imbricatis, foliolis linearibus trinerviis acuminatis, stipulis linearibus integris, caule erecto flexuoso. Roth Germ. I. 309. //. 183. Hoffm. Germ. 256. Fl. taur. cauc. 2. p. 159. Vicia Gerardi. Willd. Prodr. n. 736. Descr. Stem zig-zag, sulcate, scarcely pubescent. Leaflets 16--22, generally reflexed, linear, with a small muero, obscurely 3-nerved, villous underneath, with silky hairs closely adpressed to the leaf. Stipules two, linear, quite entire, recurved. Peduncles axillary, striate, twice the length of the..