The Botanical Magazine Volume Iv Part 3

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CAMPANULA CARPATICA. CARPATIAN BELL-FLOWER.

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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Corolla_ campanulata fundo clauso valvis staminiferis. _Stigma_ trifidum. _Capsula_ infera poris lateralibus dehiscens.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

CAMPANULA _carpatica_ foliis glabris cordatis serratis petiolatis, pedunculis elongatis, calyce reflexo glutinoso. _Linn. Syst.

Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 207. Suppl. p. 140._ _Jacq. Hort. v.

i. t. 57._

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This species of Bell-flower, which takes its name from its place of growth, is a native of the Carpatian Alps, and was introduced into the Royal Garden at Kew, by _Professor_ JACQUIN, of _Vienna_, in the year 1774.

It flowers in June and July.

As yet it is scarce in our gardens, but deserves to be more generally known and cultivated; its flowers, in proportion to the plant, are large and shewy: like many other Alpine plants, it is well suited to decorate certain parts of rock-work, or such borders of the flower garden, as are not adapted for large plants.

It is a hardy perennial, and propagated by parting its roots in autumn.

Our figure, from a deficiency in the colouring art, gives a very inadequate idea of its beauty.

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SEDUM ANACAMPSEROS. EVERGREEN ORPINE.

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DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 5-fidus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Squamae_ nectariferae 5, ad basin germinis. _Caps._ 5.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

SEDUM _Anacampseros_ foliis cuneiformibus basi attenuatis subsessilibus, caulibus dec.u.mbentibus, floribus corymbosis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p.

108._

SEDUM _Anacampseros_ foliis cuneiformibus integerrimis caulibus dec.u.mbemtibus, floribus corymbosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed.

Murr. p. 430._

TELEPHIUM repens folio deciduo. _Bauh. Pin. 287._

TELEPHIUM tertium. _Dodon. Pempt. p. 130._

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Grows spontaneously out of the crevices of the rocks in the South of France; flowers in our gardens in July and August; is a very hardy perennial, and in sheltered situations retains its leaves all the year.

The singular manner in which the leaves are attached to the flowering stem, deserves to be noticed.

As many of the succulent plants are tender, and require a Green-house in the winter, cultivators of plants are apt indiscriminately to extend the same kind of care to the whole tribe, hence it is not uncommon to find this and many other similar hardy plants, nursed up in the Green-house or stove, when they would thrive much better on a wall or piece of rock-work, for the decoration of which this plant in particular is admirably adapted.

Like most of the Sedum tribe it may readily be propagated by cuttings, or parting its roots in autumn.

DODONaeUS' figure admirably represents its habit.

According to the _Hort. Kew._ it was cultivated in this country by GERARD, in 1596.

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STRELITZIA REGINae. CANNA-LEAVED STRELITZIA.

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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Spathae. Cal._ 0. _Cor._ 3-petala. _Nectarium_ triphyllum, genitalia involvens. _Peric._ 3-loculare, polyspermum.

STRELITZIA _Reginae Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. p. 285. Tab. 2._

HELICONIA _Bibai J. Mill. ic. tab. 5, 6._

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In order that we may give our readers an opportunity of seeing a coloured representation of one of the most scarce and magnificent plants introduced into this country, we have this number deviated from our usual plan, with respect to the plates, and though in so doing we shall have the pleasure of gratifying the warm wishes of many of our readers, we are not without our apprehensions least others may not feel perfectly well satisfied; should it prove so, we wish such to rest a.s.sured that this is a deviation in which we shall very rarely indulge and never but when something uncommonly beautiful or interesting presents itself: to avoid the imputation of interested motives, we wish our readers to be apprized that the expences attendant on the present number, in consequence of such deviation, have been considerably _augmented_, not lowered.

It is well known to many Botanists, and others, who have experienced Sir JOSEPH BANKS's well known liberality, that previous to the publication of the _Hortus Kewensis_ he made a new genus of this plant, which had before been considered as a species of _Heliconia_, and named it _Strelitzia_ in honour of our most gracious Queen CHARLOTTE; coloured engravings of which, executed under his direction, he presented to his particular friends; impressions of the same plate have been given in the aforesaid work, in which we are informed that this plant was introduced to the royal garden at Kew, by Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. in the year 1773, where it lately flowered--of some other plants introduced after that period from the Cape, of which it is a native, one flowered in the Pine stove of BAMBER GASCOYNE, Esq. several years ago, from whence Mr. MILLAR drew his figure, and the plant from which our drawing was made flowered this spring, in the bark stove of the garden belonging to the Apothecaries Company, at Chelsea, where it will also soon flower again.

This plant has usually been confined to the stove, where it has been placed in a pot, and plunged into the tan, as the plants in such situations usually are; it has been found that when the roots have been confined to the narrow limits of a pot, the plant has rarely or never flowered, but that when the roots have by accident extended into the rotten tan, it has readily thrown up flowering stems, the best practice therefore, not only with this, but many other plants, is to let the roots have plenty of earth to strike into. As it is a Cape plant it may perhaps be found to succeed best in the conservatory.