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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)
[Greater narrow leav'd tobacco; Passion-flower with hand shaped entire leaves], pp. Plate 81-42
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ST B LXXXI.
41. Lin. Gen. Plant. 248. Tobacco in French, Nicotianeo*
Talac.
permanent of one Leaf, cut into five acute Segments, A, the
i a long Tube fpread open at the Brim, and ending in five
ed Stamina, C, which are the length of the Tube, a little
D; and an oval Germen fuporting a flender Style, E, crowned
n afterwards turns to an oval Capfule with a Furrow on each
t the Top, and are filled with rough Seed, H, faftened to the
he firfi Sedion of Linnaus's fifth Clafs, which contains thofe
nd one Style.
tis acutis, feflilibus, calycibus acutis, tubo floris longiffimo.
ped Leaves, fitting clofe to the Stalks, fharp-pointed Empale-
wer. Nicotiana major auguflifolia. C.1B. P. 170. Greater
hing Stalk four or five Feet high; the lower Leaves are a Foot
hofe on the Stalks, are much narrower, leffening to the'Top,
Ce to the Stalks,; and are very glutinous. The Flowers grow
.lks, they have long Tubes, and are of a bright red Colbur.t
ering till the Froft puts a Stop to them. Mid. Gard. Diti.
T E LXXXII.
Wdilla. Tourn. nfl. R. II. Z4o. 2'ab. 124- PaIfon-flower, kn
pcb, Fleur de la Pa/lion,
Empalement of five Leaves, A, and five half fpear-flaped
fe. The Nedarium hath a triple Crown, the outer, which
Petal, but is larger and compreffed above ; it has five Awl-
Bafe to the Column of the Style annexed to the Germern,
ited by oblong, obtufe, incumbent Summits, C. The Style
on whofe Top fits an oval Germen, E, with three fmaller
by headed Stigmas. The Germen afterward becomes an oval
e end of the Style, filled with oval Seeds, faftened longitu.
n the fourth Section of Linnaus's twentieth Clafs, intitled
cludes thofe Plants, whofe male and female Parts are joined
amina.
natis integerrimis Amarn. Acad. vOL. 1. p. 231. Pafflion with
pentaphyllos flore cocruleo magno Boerh. Ind. alt. 2. p. 8i.
; blue Flower, ýor the moft common Paffion Flower. Mill.
Brafils, yet is hardy enough to thrive in the open Air here,
revere Winters, which commonly kill the Branches to the
Dots ; this rifes in a few Years to a great height, the Stalks
1 are covered with a fmooth purplifh Bark, but do not become
often twelve or fifteen Feet long in one Sumnmer, they are very
they will hang to the Ground, intermix with each other, and
ed a" each Joint with one hand-fhaped Leaf, compofcd of fiiv
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