Identifier: botanicalregiste04edwa (find matches)
Title: The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Floriculture Botany
Publisher: (London : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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nd, villous, about an inch long. Stipules mem-branous, an inch and an half long, pale villous, of nearlythe same shape as the leaflets of the calyx, caducous. Pe-duncles oneflowered, terminal, shorter than the petiole,thick, finely dotted, marked with a circular scar a littlebelow the flower. Flower more than 4 inches in diame-ter, of yellowish buff colour with a slight glaucous tint,upright, very faintly odorous. Cali/x more than t^nceshorter than the petals; leaflets 3, linearly oblong, with ashort point, nearly of the same colour as the petals, buttenderer and caducous. Petals 6, flaccid, cuneately obo-vate, with a short point, alternate ones rather narrower, andgreener on the outside. There had been doubts, whether the Asiatic specieswould prove to be true Magnoli.^:, when their fruit was ex-amined. The examination has been lately made by Mr.Brown, who finds that the fruit of Asiatic species, in theBanksian Herbarium, does not differ essentially from thefruit of the American ones.
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326 GALEGA orientalis.Oriental Galega, DIADELPHIA DECANBRIA. Nat. ord. Leguminosje. Jussieu gen. 345. Div, VI,GALEGA, Cal. tubulosus 5-(lentatus dentibus subulatis subaequabbus.Legumen oblongum rectum subcompressum, polyspermum ad singula seminasaepe nodosum, inter eadem oblique striatum aut transversim sulcatuna.Frutices aut scepius herb<^, qucedam tinctorice; stipulcB a petiolo distinctce;Jlores spicati axillares et terminales, Jussieu loc. cit. 359. Div, FoUis pinnatis.G. orientalis, foliis pinnatis, foliolis ovatis acuminatis glabris, stipulis ovatis, floribus cernuis. JVilld. sp. pi. 3. 1241.Galega orientalis. Lamarck encyc. 2. 589. Hort. Keiv. ed, 2. 4. 355. Marsch. Bieh. taur. cauc. 2. 182.Galega orientalis latifolia, altissima, flore caeruleo. Tournef. cor, 27; cujus specimen archetypum in Herb. Banks, videndum est, Herba perennis. Caulis 4!-pedalis, erectus, Jlexuosus, foliosus: ramiJistidosi, teretes, villosi, striatidi, asce7identes, Fol. impari-jnnnata, amplaysubSjuga,

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