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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)
[Lesser scorpion sena; Garden larkspur], pp. 30-Plate 60 ff.
Page 30
P L A T I
Emerus. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 63o. Coronilla. Lin.
rHE Charaters are,
THE Flower bath a very fhort Empalement of one Le
permanent. The Flower is of the butterfly kind. The ta
Empalement. The flandard B is narrow, and fhorter than
Wings, C, are large and concave. The heel D is heart-fb1
in each, one of which ftands feparate, the other nine are
In the Empalement is fituated an oblong flender Germen,
taper Stigma. The Germen afterward becomes a Taper
Parts where the Seeds are lodg'd, which are alfo cylindrica
THIS Genus of Plants is ranged in the third Setion c
includes the trees and Shrubs with a Butterfly flower, whc
mi4-rib. Dr. Linneus has joined this Genus, and alfo the
THIS Specie is,
EMERUS (Minor) foliolis obcordatis, pedunculis brevio,
long heart-fhaped leaves ; fhorter Foot Stalks to the Flow
Tourn. Inft. R. H. 65o. LeIihr Scorpion Sena.
THis Sort rifes with fhrubby Stalks about four Feet high
the Flowers ftand upon lhort Foot Stalks, and are of a brig
of a reddifh hue. The Leaves of this Shrub, When ferrn
praetifed with the Indigo Plants, will afford a dye very ne
anfwer the fame purpofes is not yet certain, or whether it
either here or abroad, is what we cannot yet determine; but
and thofe of the Indigo in their generical charadters, that D
have ranged them in the fame Genus. This fort flowers in A
again in Autumn.
P L A T E
Delp6inum. Lin. Gen. Plant. 68i. Tourn. Intl. R. H. :
THE Characters are,
THE Flower bath no Empalement, it is compofed of fli
the upper Petal is extended at the hinder Part into a tubular
nearly of the fame fize with the upper, but the two lower arc
bifid Nedtarium fituated in the center of the Petals, and is
The flower bath many fmall Stamina, C, which incline to th
fummits; it bath three oval Germen, as D, fupporting ti
Stamina, crowned by reflexed Stigmas; the Germen afterwa
ther, as F, Which open crofsways, each having one Cell fixed
THrIs Genus of Plants is ranged in the third Sejtion
POLYANDRIA TRYGINIA, the flower having many Stamina
THE Specie reprefented here is,
DLFPHINIUM (Ajacia) neaarii monophyllis, caule fimpli
rium and an orect Stalk.Delphminim " hortenfe. Tourn. Inif
Sp. II1
THIs Sort grows naturally on Arable Land in France, Si
Stalks, the Spikes of Flowers grow ere&, and the Flowers are
a fine Appearinee, as there are great variety of Colours in thol
asi, and rofe colour, which makes a fine Variety, when foA
greateft Ornaments of the Flower Garden in the Months of
tcuier. Aid/. Gard. Diel.
. C 30 1
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