Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217778183
Paperback|9780217778183
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: M. truncatellum was introduced into Kew in 1795, by F. Masson, one of the travellers attached to the establishment, and is described as flowering in November; our plant was sent by Principal MacOwan, of Gill College, Somerset East, and flowered in October 1873; it is a very rare species, was unknown to the Prince Salm Dyck, and is hence not included in his magnificent work; it has never before been figured. Descr. Plant forming tufts of pale glaucous green, obconic, truncate, translucent fleshy masses, one to three inches in diameter, with a flat or convex rather tubercled brown surface; each branch on plant, consisting of four leaves in opposite pairs, placed cross-wise. Leaves very fleshy, broadly cuneate, connate to above the middle; back convex; face convex; crown 'unate.brown, mottled, convex; the first formed fleshy leaves, after developing another pair between them, shrink into a mere membranous pellicle that sheaths the base of the younger pair. Flower solitary, sessile, one and a half inches in diameter. Calyx-tube sunk and tightly-wedged between the two uppermost leaves; limb 5-6-cleft, lobes obtuse, tinged purple. Petals in two series, very numerous, straw-coloured. Stamens very numerous, anthers yellow. Styles 5, slender, tips uncurved.?/. D. H. Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower with two sepals, and petals of same side removed: ? loth magnified. COLCHICUM Speciosum. Native of the Caucasus. Nat. Ord. Melanthace;.?Tribe Colchice.e. Genus Colchicum, Town.; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 137). Colchiccm speciosum; robustum, hysteranthum, cormo znagnit. judglandis, foliis 4-5 late elliptico-lanceolatis, perianthii late purpurei tubo crassitie pennse anserinse 6-12-pollicari, limbo 5 poll. diam. segmentis ellipticis apice rotundatis concoloribus non tessellatis, antheris elong..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217778183 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217778186 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 138 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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