Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery Volume 20 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...by the small wrinkled downy hoary leaves and the soft teeth of the calyx. Although not a very handsome plant, yet its thin halftransparent light violet flowers, and neat hoary leaves give it a pleasing appearance. In the accompanying plate, fig. 1. represents the corolla cut open, to shew the place of the filaments and of a ring of hairs; 2. a magnified anther with the upper part of the filament; and 3. is the ovary with the style and stigma. ERICA codonodes. Bell-bearing Heath. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. . Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of Botany, p. 182.) ERICA. Supra, vol. 1, fol. 6. E. codonodes; ramulis villosis, foliis ternis angustissimis, corollis campanulatis, calveis laciniis minimis acuris subherbaceis, antheris basi aristatis inclusis, stylo exscrto stigmate simplici. E. arbores facie, diversa tarnen foliis angustioribus, corollis major!bus et omnino campanulatis nee subglobosis, demum stigmate parum dilatalo integro peltato lobato. E. polytrichifolia aliente esse speciei videtur ob corollas multo minores, stylos longiores, et stigmata magna infundibularia siccatione plicata. An E. arboreae mera varietas? This species of heath has the general appearance of E. arborea, a plant which is a great ornament to rocky places in the South of Europe, where it grows intermixed with different kinds of Cistus and the wild Arbutus. But it seems essentially distinct in its larger flowers, more slender leaves, less hoary branches, and truly bell-shaped corolla, which has by no means the globular form of that of E. arborea; its stigma is moreover very small, and not at all dilated or lobed, either when dried or recent. E. polytrichifolia, which we presume is the E. arborea sty...