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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)
[Cyclamen; The jasmine, or fessamine tree], pp. 48-Plate 96 ff.
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P L A T E XCV.
CJdamen. Lin. Gfen Plant. aot. 9ourn. Intl. R. H. 154. Tab. 68. Cyclamen,
in Frencb, Pain de
Pourceau, K of fKo-, Gr. a Circle, becauf te Root o this is
; it is cal/ed Sow
Bread, becauft the Leaf is round ike a LoaJ, and the Soot eat it. Sowread.
"Trn Chara&ers are,
THE Flower bath a roundilh permanent Empalement of one Leaf, divided
into five Parts at the Top
A, it hath one Petal with a Globular Tube, B, which is much larger than
the Empalement'; the upper
Part is divided into five large Segments, C, which are reflexed; it hath
five fmall Stamina, fituated
within the Tube of the Petal, terminated by acute Summits, which are conne&ed
in the Neck of the
Tube, D; it hath a rounditih Germen, E, fupporting a flender Style, F, which
is longer than the Stamina,
and crowned by an acute Stigma, the Germen afterward becomes a globular
Fruit with one Cell,
opening at five Parts at the Top, inclofing many oval angular Seeds.
THIS Genus of Plants is ranged in the firff Se&ioa Linnaus's fif-.h
Clafs, entitled PENTANDRIA
MoNoGYNIA, the Flower having five Stamina and one Style.
THis Species is,
CYCLAMEM (purpurafcens) foliis orbiculato-cordatis inferne purpurarcentibus,
Cyclamen with
round heart fhaped Leaves, purple on their under Side. Cylamen orbiculato
folio inferne purpura-
fcente. C. B. P. 3o8. Round leafed Sowbread with a purple under Side.
THis Sort is at prefent very rare in England; the Leaves ofthi6 areularge,
orbicular.and heart-fliaped
at their Bafe, and of a purple on their under Side ; the Leaves and Flowers
of this comes up from the
Root at the fame Time ; the Flowers are of a purplith Coloor, and their
Bottoms of a deep red; it
lJiowers late in the Autumn, and requires Protcdion from the Froft in Winter.
Mid. Gard. Did.
P L A T1 Xcvi,
7qaf/ninum. Tourn. Inti. R,/-1..597. Tat. 368. Lin. Gen. Plant.. 1"
[This Name is Alrabic) the 7afmine,
or 7f1fe§mine Tree, in French Ja/main.
THE Charaaers are,
THE Flower hath a tubulous Empalement, A, oP one Lear, which is permanent
and cut into five
Stgments at theBrim, which are ere~is the Flower is of one Petal, having
a long cylindrical Tube, cut into
five Segments at the Top, B. which fpread open. It hath two fhort Stamina,
C, which are terminated
by fmall Summits, and are fituated within the Tube of the Petal; in the Center
is fituated a roundifh
Germen, D, fupporting a flender Style, E, crowned by ahbifid Stigma; the
Germen afterwards turns
to an oval Berry with a foft Skin, inclofing two Seeds, which are flat on
thofe Sides which join, and
convex on the other.
THIS Genus of Plants is ranged in the firft Seffion of Uinn-us's fecond
Clafs, entitled, DIANDRIA
MONOGYN 1 A, in whicth he ranges thofe Plants whofe Flowers have two Staminia
and one Style.
THIS Species is,
Fig. i, Jafminum (ofcinale) foliis oppotitig pinnatis foliolis acuminatis,
jafmine with wing'd
Leaves plac'd oppofite, whofe Lobes end in acute Points. Jafminum vulgatius,
flore albo. C. B. P.,
397. The common white Jafmine.
TH ixs Sort is the common white Jafmine, which is a Plant fo generally
known as to need no De-
fcription. This grows naturally at Malabar and in feveral Parts of India,
yet has been long inured to
our Climate, fo as to thrive and flower extremely well, but never produces
any Fruit in England
this has we 'k trailing Branches, fo requires the Afliftance of a Wall or
Pale to fupport them ; it is
eafily proFagated by laying down the Branches, which will take Root in one
Year, and may be cut from
the old PL nt, and planted where they are defigned to reman: it may alfo
be propagated by Cuttings,
uhich fhould be planted early in the Autumn, and if the Winter fhould prove
fevere, the Surface of
the Ground ihould be covered with Tan, Sea Coal, A(hes or Saw Duft, which
will prevent the Frofl
from penetrating deep into the Ground, and thereby preferve the Cuttings;
or where thefe are wanting,
fomne Peafe-haulm, or other light Covering fbould be over the Cuttings in
hard Frofts; but thefe muft:
be removed when the Weather is mild, for they will keep off the Air and occafron
Damps, whichoften
deftroy them. Mill. Gard. Did.
Fig. z. Jafminum (Fruticus)
Jafmine with trifoliate fingle Leave
diium bacciferum, C. B. P. 398.
T HI Sort is the common yello,
and will rife to the height of eight
their Roots, which they produce in
Pleafure Garden i and as they canno
in Gardens. Mill. Gard. Did.
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