Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo08paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1841 (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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y exposure to direct solar agency, be deprived of some of that purity anddelicacy both of the ground tint and the spots for which they are so conspicuous,and consequently suffer in the estimation of the grower. It would bo better,therefore, we think, to preserve it in the greenhouse, in a pot of loamy soil, andtrain it to a cylindrical trellis, on which its flowers will be more easily displayedthan if it were fastened to the rafters of the house. Propagation can be readily effcttcd by cuttings, which root with the greatestfacility. It is extremely doubtful if it could be perpetuated by seeds; and whetherthe seed of L. eruhcscms would often produce a sort of this kind, we are by nomeans prepared to determine. At any rate, it deserves trial. Young plantsought to be reared annually to displace the old ones, which are apt to become bareand barren at the bottom. Lophos, a crest, and spernut, a seed, constitute the basis of the generic title, asthe seed is furnished with a crest-like wincr.
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» ///rf//fr//frrrf <rr/j^/rV//- f 77 ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA. (catiiahtic allamjnda.) class. order. PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. APOCYNACE^. Generic Chaiucter.—Calt/.v fivc-paited ; segments lanceolate-oWong, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped ;\v\ih a narrow tube, and a swollen, large, inflated limb, which is five-cleft at the apex ; furnished withfive scales in the throat of the tube, which cover the anthers. Anthers five, almost sessile, converg-ing. Slf/le one. Stigma capitate, contracted in the middle, adhering to the anthers. Capsuleechinatcd, roundish-elliptic, one-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. Seeds surrounded by a membra-nous edge, fixed to the edge of tlie valves. Albumen wanting.—Dons Gard. and Botany. Specific Character.—Plant shruhby, evergreen. Stem erect, climbing. Leaves usually four in awhorl, sessile, oblong, acuuiinatc, smooth and shining on the upper side. Flowers large, yellow,growing in clusters at the sides of the young shoots. Calyx with unequal se

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