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 30 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Watsonia Meriana(v.) Largest Merian's Watsonia, or Scarlet Tuberose. Clafi .and Order. Triandria Monogynia. Generic Char after. ? Vid. No. 1072. Specific CbaracJer and Synonyms. WATSONIA Meriana; (plurflora, ftamina afcendentia an- iher? collatrales, parallels;) foliispaucis (4-5) lanceolato-loratis, caule fubramofo brevioribus; fpica remotiufcula, fubdiiticha; fpathas valvis, ovato-acuminatis, tubo brevioribus, intima quam extima circiter trientem longiorc; corolla fubhypocrateriformi, ' afcendente, iubgeniculato-, recurvula; limbo fubbilabiato-rotato; tubo ereflo, deorfum ilriato, in faucem cucullato- cylindraceam obtufe hexagonam compreffiuf- ' culam dorfo anguiliorem curvulam fibi aequalem dilaiato; laciniis fauce brevioribus, obovato- oblongis, obtufis cum acumine, fubaequalibus, fuprema antrorfum inclinata, nfima propendule deflexa; antheris citra limbi medium promi- nulls; ftigmatibus longioribus. G. WATSONIA Meriana. Nobis in Ann. of Bot. v. i. 230. Supra No. 1072, in Spec. Synth. WATSONIA. Mill. Die. ed. 7. Ic. tab, 276. - GLADIOLUS Merianus. Thunb. Glad. n. 2. Prod. 4. Jaccf. Coll. 4. 150. Ic. Rar. 2. 230. mild. S p. PI. i. 214. Lil. a Red. tab. n. Vabl Ennm. 2. 94. (excl. pam var. .) ANTHOLYZA Meriana. Linn. Sy. Feg. 88. Hort. . i. 67. Curt.fupra No. 418. MERIANA flore rubello. Trew. Ehret, tal'. 40. (v) corolla cerafino-rubens. G. () eadem chapter{Section 4((3) eadem inaequabiliter coccnea. G. (y) ifta tota atque unifbrmiter (atrate coccnea; major. G. This fplendid variety of Meriana was imported foroe years ago, by Mr. Wykes, from Holland. The fpecies is native of the Cape; but this variety has been moil probably obtained by the induftry of the Dutch gardeners. We have never feen it i...