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Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo09paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1842 (1840s)
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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Mr. Middletons, 51Pentstemon, splendid gentian-like, 175— thick-leaved, 197 Rondeletia, long-flowered, 217Rose-bay, Smiths yellow, 79 Sage, two-coloured, 271Siphocampylus, birch-leaved, 223Slipper-wort, Mr. Standishs, 75Sophronitis, large-flowered, 194 Torrenia, rough-leaved, 53 Zieria laevigata, 77 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME THE NINTH. PLANTS. Aerides Brookii, 146Cattleya Aclandiae, 2 — superba, 266Columnea Schiediana, 32Epidendrum phoeniceum, 98Erica, hybrid, 196Gesnera discolor, 56 — lateritia, 246Habranthus pratensis, 122Houlletia Brocklehurstiana, 60Ipomoea ficifolia, 26 Loasa Pentlandica, 8Mesembryanthemum tricolor, 220 Miltonia Clowesii, 242Pentstemon crassifolius, 198Rhododendron Smithii aureum, 81Salvia bicolor, 272Siphocampylus betulaefolius, 224 ERECTIONS, ORNAMENTS, &c. Conservatory wall, design for a, 62 Baskets for Orchidacese, 90, 91 Vases for plants, 8, 26, 32 Cuttings, examples of those grown in water, 82, 83Oak, a young one shown growing in water, 35 ^%.
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. Roldou iA k Ltfli ^cU^^len^^cu J^^Cay?ZcCccey CATTLEYA ACLANDItE. (Lady Aclands Cattleya.)Clius> Order, GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. Natural Order. ORCHID IcEiE. Generic Chabactek. ■— Sepals membranaceous orfleshy, spreading, equal. Petals often larger. Lahellumcucullate, involving the column, three-lobed or un-divided. Column club-shaped, elongated, semicj-Iin-drical, marginate, joined to the lahellum. Anthersfleshy, four-celled, usually with a membranaceousmargin. Pollen-masses four. Specific Character.—PteJiZ epiphytal, icavcs ohlong.Flowers solitary or in paiis. Sepals and petals lanceo-late, equal, incurved, spotted with purple on a brownishground. Lahellum plain, hare, with the lower partdilated and slightly wavy, and the extremity roundishor kidney-shaped and emarginate. With a liberality which, in the instance of so scarce and tender a plant, callsfor the highest encomiums, G. Barker, Esq., of Birmingham, exhibited a finespecimen of this beautiful species at one of tlie gr
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