Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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on a gentle hotbed, or in a pot plunged in a hotbed, about the month ofMarch, and plant the young seedlings either singly or by threes, in small pots,nearly half filled with potsherds or moss. They should be gradually hardened,kept in a cold frame, and potted as they may rcquue, till they begin to showflower, when they may be planted, with the ball of earth entire, in the bed orborder where they are to flower, and the first flower-buds must be removed.They wiU in this way bloom most prodigally in June and July. If intended forthe borders alone, they can be raised on a hotbed, and planted out as other tenderannuals. Tiic species was obtained from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Anderson, ofthe Chelsea Botanic Gardens, in the year 1820. It was flowering abundantlywith Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place, last July, when our drawing wastaken. The genus is dedicated to Frederick Kaulfuss, !M.D., Professor of Botany atIlalle, and no other species has yet been added to British collections.
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//e/vr//^ 197 CUPHEA MELVILLA. (meivilles cupnE,.) CLASS. OttDEU, DODECANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. natural order.LYTHRACEjE. Generic Character.—Calyx tubular, gibhosc .at the base on the upper side ; limb wide, twelve-toothed,with six of the teeth ereet, and the other six small or nearly obsolete, rising from the sinuses of theinner teeth. Petals six or seven, unequal. Stamens eleven to fourteen, rarely six or seven,imequal, inserted in the throat of tlie calyx. Gland under the ovarium thick. Style filiform.Stigma simple, or rather bifid. Capsule membranous, covered by the calyx, one or two-celled, .atlength cleft by the deflexed placenta as well as the calyx. Seeds nearly orbicular, compressed, wing-less.—Dons Gard. and Botany. Specific Character.—Plant perennial, herbaecous. Stems numerous, erect. Leaves sessile, lanceolate,attenuated at both ends, scabrous. Racemes terminal, simple, many-flowered. Calyx red at thobase, and green at the apex. Petals wanting. SvNONvME.—Melvilla speci

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