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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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