Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery Volume 23 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. 1837 Excerpt: ...multiflorum, radiatum, ligulis neutris. Involucrum duplex, utrumque squamis 8-10 basi plus minus concretis apice acuininatis. Receptaculum planum paleaceum, paleis membranaceis in filum elongatum productis. Styli rami apice incrassati, hispidi, in conuin subulatum producti. Antherce apice appendice scariosa cordata superat . Ach nium tetragonum, exalatum, rostratum, et interdum stipitatum, aristis 2-4 retrorsum piloso-scabris deciduis coronatum. r as Americana; annu, glabr, aut vix pilosul, elat, romos . Folia bipinnatisecta, lobis linearibus, lanceolalis, sapius margine integerrimis. Capitula ad apices ramorvru longe nudorum solitaria. Discus intense Intens. Radius versicolor. DC. prodr. 5. 607. . tenuifolius; glaberrimus, foliis bipinnatisectis, lobis linearibus remotis acutissimis integris lobatisque, involucri esterions squamis ovatis acuminatis, acha;niis asperis rostratis muticis vel 1-triaristatis. Herba Cosmi bipinnati sed magis laciniata et tenuior. Ligulas cuneat, eros, fosece, subtus pallida;, unciam long . Flosculi disci lutei, antheris atris. Corolla bis strangulata, parte inferiore tereti, intermedia infla/a, suprema urceolata. Achaenia teretia, uspera, nunc rostrata mutica, nunc suberostria; aristis 1-3, quorum unica retrorsum serrata, coronata. A beautiful annual Mexican plant, not unfrequently raised from imported seeds, but always flowering so late in the year that it is unable to ripen seed and perishes. It grows from a foot and a half to two feet high, and is a most striking object when its rich purple flowers are well contrasted with the bright fennel-like leaves. It differs from bipinnatus in the leave...