The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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rather looselyarranged, horizontal; pedicles several times shorter than thecorolla; hractes broadly ovate, short, pointed. Corollascarcely exceeding of an inch in length, oblong, cylindri-cally campanulate, slightly urceolate; 3 outer segmentsabout J shorter than the others, very obtuse wdth a greenishsubtiiangular caruncle on the back a little below the top,one rather longer than the rest, and more conspicuouslykeeled, 3 inner ones spatulately obovate, pale, thinner,with an obsolete green streak at the upper part of the keel,one of them ratlier narrower than the rest, with a deepnotch at the end. Stamens converging, nearly equal tothe corolla: pollen yellow. Germen green, oblong, slightlyconical rounded hexagonal six-furrowed, with three of thefurrows deeper than the others. Lachenalia viridis and Scilla serotina, have both beenremoved from their former places, and transferred to thegenus Uropetalon, of which a species has been representedin the 156th article of tliis publication.
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288 BORAGO orieiitalis.Oriental Borage, PENTANDRIA MOXOGYXJA. Kat. ord. Coragine.ii. Jussieu gen. 28. Div. IV, Brozvn prod. 1.492. BORAGO. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. liypogyna rotata 5-fida, plerumquepatens; (faux instructa 5 squamis calcaruui instar cavis, intra coroUamprominulis in ejusdem laciniarum basi; extra hiulcis:) squamulce obtusaeemarginata?. Stig)72a 1 : (frudus gymno-tetraspermus:) sem. rugosa,calyce connivente tecta. Herhce plerumque asperifolies, Juss. 1. c. 131. 1^. orientalise calycibus tubo coroUae brevioribus, foliis cordatis. Linn, sn,pi. 1. 197. Borago orientalis. Mill. diet. ed. 8. n. 2. Hart. Kew. 1. 184. ed. 2. 1. 297.Smilh prod. Jl. grcuc. 122. Fl. grceca 63. tab. 175. Willd. sp, pi. 1.778. Borago constantinopolitana. 3////. ic. 1. 45. t. 68. Borago constantinopolitana, flore reflexo ca^ruleo, calyce vesicario. Tourn. cor. 6. Ejusd. it. 2. 13. cuin icone. Buxb. cent. 5. 16. t. 30. Radix tuberosa^ perennis, extiis nigra. Caulis herbaceus, erectus, pedalisnut sesquip

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