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P L A T E DCXXXIII.
LIATRIS ODORATISSIMA.
Sweet-scented Liatris.
C L A S S XIX. ORDER L
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA MQUALIS. Tips United. Equal Polygamy.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
RECEPTACULUM nudum. Calyx oblongus, imbricatus.
Pappus plumosus, coloratus.
RECEPTACLE naked,
tiled.
Empalement oblong and
Down feathery and coloured.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
LIATRIS foliis oblongis, sub-integerrimis, glafaris,
caulem amplexantibus. Gaulis simpleXj
glaber. Flores paniculâ corymbosâ,
divaricati. Calyx squamosus, lanceolatus,
obtusus.
LIATKIS with oblong leaves nearly entire,
smooth, and embracing the stem. Stem
simple and smooth. Flowers grow in a corymbose
panicle, straddling. The squamous
empalement lanceolate and obtuse.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A flower.
3. The feathery down magnified.
4. A blossom spread open magnified.
5. Seed-bud and pointai.
6. A radical leaf.
WE received the specimen from which our figure is taken from A. B. Lambert, esq., in whose stove it
lias flowered for the first time in this country. It was biought to England last year by Mr. Fraser
from South Carolina. Many attempts have been before made to introduce it, but without success, as
the plants either perished on the voyage, or very soon after their arrival. It is, we think, a great acquisition
to our collections, on account of the great fragrance of its leaves when dried, which very
much resembles the fine perfume of the Tonquin Bean, (Dipieriv vdorala Linn. Willd.) but more
powerful, and which they will retain for many years, as Mr . Lambert has shown us some which have
been kept in a box above ten years, and are as highly scented as ever. It seems at present too tender
(0 flower without the assistance of the stove.
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