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Edwards, John, b. 1742 / A select collection of one hundred plates: consisting of the most beautiful, exotic and British flowers which blow in our English gardens: accurately drawn and coloured from nature, with their botanic characters, and a short account of their cultivation, their uses in medicine, with the Latin and English names
(1775)
[Dwarf hoary, greater centaury with a head like a pine cone; Greater hoary stock gilliflower], pp. 32-Plate 64 ff.
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P L A
Centaurea. min. Gen. Plant. 984. Centaurium
443. Cyans Tourn. 445."
Tarn Chara6ters are,
IT hath a compound Flower, whole difk,
Borders or rays, 13, of female Florets, whi
common, roundilh, fcaly Empalement, C; t6
the Top, and cut into five-Parts ; thefe hr
Summits; the Germen is fituated under the P
Stigma, the Germen afterward becomes a finE
have a flender Tube, but expands above, whe
are barren.
THis Genus of Plants is ranged in the
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTANEA; ti
compofed, of hermaphrod;t¢. Florets, which ar
Tuis Specie is,
CENTAUREA (conifera) calycibus Scario
pinnatiffidus caule fimplici, prod. leyd. 142. (
near the Root being fpear-ilaped, thofe on the
incanum, hurmile, Capite pini. Tourn. Intl.
Head iike a Pine cone. Mdl. Sp. V.
THIS hath a perennial Root, which groA
faped Leaves, and afterward a fingle Stalk, ,mo
of the fame Shape with the other ; at the end
oblong4fcaly Empalement, each Scale being bo
appear in. une, and the Seeds ripen in A4ugu
ed of common Earth, in a Nurfery; and when
from.Weeds, and the following Autumn the
remain. Mill. Gard. Did.
P L A
Cbeiranthus. Lin. Gen. Plant. 815, Leucojum.
Wall Fhwer; in 1
THE Charaders are,
IT hath a four leaved compreffed Empaleme
Flower liath four Petals placed in form of a Cro
fix parrallel Stamina, C, which are the length
fwelling Leaves of the Empalement, the other
Summits, which are reflexed at the Top; it h,
Stamina, fupporting a very fhort compreffed Sty
reflexed and permanent. The Germen afterwar
opening with two Valves, filled with compretkd
Tilts Genus of Plants is ranged in-the
TETRANDYNAMIA SILIGOSA, the Flowers ha
are lodged in long Pods.
TUiE Specie is,
Cherianthas (Cotcineus) foliis !anceolatis un
fpear-fliaped Leaves, and an upright undivided
HRff. 2, 24o, Greater hairy Stqck Gilliflower
Stock Gilliflower.
This Sort rites with an upright ftrofg undivjL
with long hoary Leaves, which are reflexed and
Head ; out of the Centre of thie arifes the Fh
frequently a Foot and half long, putting out tw
this kind have longer Petals than any of the ocher
reprefented, which .re of a bright red and make e
flowery tribe. This flowers in June and July, at
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