John Lindley

Name: Edwards's Botanical Register — Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes, A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony, Proteaceae
Author: John Lindley

Edwards's Botanical Register — Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes…

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“Edwards's Botanical Register — Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes, A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony, Proteaceae”, is a work by John Lindley. It explores elements such as tomentosis, spinoso and flower.

Quotes from Edwards's Botanical Register — Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes… (John Lindley)

John Lindley, Edwards's Botanical Register — Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes…

“ Three species only are yet known; all from Swan River, namely M. tridentifera, vestita, and glabrata,183 all small shrubs with three lobed or trident-shaped leaves, and numerous clusters of small flowers seated on filiform stalks; but with regard to the two Grevilleas which Brown calls Conogyne, and which Endlicher is inclined to refer to Manglesia, it does not appear to me certain that either of them belongs to it, and G. triternata certainly does not. ”

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“ Another species, P. brevifolia,168 has flowers which, when infused in hot water, give out so brilliant a yellow colour that it is worth examination of a probable source of a dyeing material.
The Persoonias are plants of little beauty; P. Frazeri is the handsomest; P. macrostachya,172 like Petrophila brevifolia, seems to possess dyeing properties that deserve investigation. ”

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“ Brown should be discoverable; there is nothing whatsoever among the numerous undescribed species from Swan River which requires the establishment of a new genus, with the solitary exception of Manglesia. ”

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“ Of Hakea the species are numerous, and generally by no means worth cultivation, H. ruscifolia being the only one
(167) Petrophila heterophylla; ramis glabris, foliis elongato-linearibus obtusis apiculatis basi longè angustatis utrinque striatis simplicibus v. 2-3-partitis, strobilis ovalibus axillaribus sessilibus: squamis ovatis obtusis nitidis glabris, calycibus sericeo-tomentosis, stigmatis glabri articulo inferiore angulato superiore subulato multò majore. ”

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“ Brown's views, for the increased number of flowers found in its heads is constantly some new power of three; in some specimens they are 3 × 4 + 1 = 13, and in others 3 × 6 + 1 = 19; and to this I perceive no exception. ”

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“ Dryandra carduacea; ramis pubescentibus, foliis lanceolatis subtùs niveo-tomentosis suprà glabris spinoso-dentatis planis versus basin spinoso-pinnatifidis, involucro glabriusculo floribus duplò breviore: foliolis exterioribus angustis triangularibus interioribus elongatis ciliatis, calycibus sericeis, stylo basi glabro, stigmate fusiformi subungulato obtuso. ”

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“ Persoonia Laureola; undique glaberrima, foliis latè ovalibus basi angustatis obtusis venosis, calycibus apice muticis minutissimè pubescentibus, ovarii stipite inarticulato, stigmate dilatato.
which is at all beautiful when in flower; the prickly and singularly formed leaves of some of them, especially of H. cristata, glabella, undulata, and triformis175 give them a neat but strange appearance.
Few of the Grevilleas, of which there are many species, are of much beauty ”

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John Lindley, Edwards's Botanical Register — Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes…

“ Of Isopogon and Petrophila, two genera perhaps better united, there are many interesting species, especially I. sphærocephalus,163 so like P. linearis that the one may be mistaken for the other; P. seminuda,166 a fine plant with
decurrentibus mucronatis margine revolutis, involucro nudo pubescenti: foliolis extimis ovatis intimis e latâ basi linearibus elongatis apice tomentosis floribus duplò longioribus, calycis laciniis filiformibus glabris, stylo basi glabro, stigmate tereti angulato obtuso.—An Hemiclidiæ species? ”

John Lindley

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