Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo05paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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from injurious dampness, as the wood is naturally of a soft andjuicy nature. It is very questionable whether this plant can be cultivated in the greenhouse,as a high temperature appears essential to the maturation of its shoots and thedevelopment of its flowers. These latter we have seen produced at almost allseasons, but the summer months would seem to be the usual period of its flowering. We are indebted for our drawing to Messrs. Young, of the Epsom Nursery, inwhose collection it has existed for several years, and from whom plants of it canbe procured. Of its native country we regret to be compelled to confess our entire igTiorance,It has been cultivated in the Epsom nursery during the last five years, but it isnot known from whence it was procured. The specific designation has beenadopted as being the one by which it is generally known, but we are alike uniarformed as to its origin, or to whom it alludes. The generic name is explained at page 1 of the third volume of this Magazine
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,_yf?Uaoz^^^^ 700 c^yccifift^. 271 ANIGOZANTHOS COCCINEUS. (scarlet ANIGOZANTHOS.) CLASS. HEXANDRIA. OllOEIl. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. IliEMODORACETE. Generic Character.—Perianth supcnor, coloured, tubular, ■woolly or hairy; limb six-parted, lobes nearly equal, inclining upwards; slowly deciduous. Stamens six, inserted in tbc mouth of thelimb, ascending. Anthers erect. Ovary three-celled ; cells many-seeded. Style filiform, deci-duous. Stigma simple. Capsule three-celled, dcliiscing at the summit. Seeds numerous. Specific Character,—Plant an evergreen herbaceous perennial, gi-owing four or five feet in heigiit.Leaves deep green, channelled, linear-lanceolate, acute, from one foot to eighteen inches long, halferect. Perianth crimson or scarlet, gradually inclining to green towards its summit, green inter-nally, swelling near the apex, where it is divided into six segments; segments partially reflexedwhen matured ; covered with short bails. The genus Anigozanthos has recently rec

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