JUNIPER with opposite leaves, acute, imbricated, and decurrent,
here and there spreading, and awl-shaped.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A female flower magnified.
2. Seed-bud and pointals, magnified.
3. A berry.
4. The same cut in two, with a seed detached.
The plant here figured is from the arboretum of the Marquis of Blandford
at White Knights, where we first noticed it in 1806, growing in the
greatest perfection, and bearing abundance of fruit, which it still
continues to do annually; and being a finer species than any we before
possessed, is an interesting addition to our collections of hardy
evergreens. It agrees perfectly with the figure and description in the
Flora Rossica, and also with the original specimen in the Pallasian
Herbarium (now in the possession of A. B. Lambert, esq.)
The plant from which our figure was taken is above twelve feet high, and
wide in proportion. The male plant we have not seen. Gmelin informs us
(in his History of the Plants of Siberia) that in the town of Janisca
the Cossacks burn the twigs of this plant to fumigate those who are
afflicted with obscure diseases, or those which they superstitiously
suppose to be excited by devils, of whose agency they are extremely
credulous, and whom they believe to be pacified with smoke and hideous
noises, as being congenial to their own nature.
[Illustration]
PLATE DXXXV.
TROPÆOLUM PINNATUM.
_Winged Nasturtium._
CLASS VIII. ORDER I.
_OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Eight Chives. One Pointal.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX 1-phyllus, calcaratus. Petala 4-5, inæqualia. Nuces 3,
coriaceæ.
EMPALEMENT one-leafed, spurred. Petals 4 or 5, unequal. Kernels 3,
coriaceous.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
TROPÆOLUM foliis sub-peltatis: lobis obtusis, inæqualibus: floribus
pinnatis: petalis quinque, cuneatis, apice dentatis.
NASTURTIUM with leaves nearly shield-shaped. Lobes obtuse, and
unequal. Flowers winged. Petals 5, wedge-shaped, and toothed at the
end.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower spread open.
2. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal.
3. Seed-bud and pointal.
This nondescript and beautiful species of Nasturtium we met with in the
select collection of the Countess de Vandes at Bayswater. Our figure
represents the entire plant; but by whom introduced, or whence a native,
we have not been able to learn. It appears to succeed well with the
treatment usual to other Tropæolums; and, if it should seed with us,
will no doubt be abundantly cultivated for the brilliance of its elegant
little blossoms. It flowers during the summer months.
[Illustration]
PLATE DXXXVI.
PROTEA ABROTANIFOLIA, _minor_.
_Small Southernwood-leaved Protea._
CLASS IV. ORDER I.
_TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Four Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antheræ lineares, petalis infra
apices insertæ. Calyx proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria.
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