IRRAIII A PAVONIA.
;
Mexican Ferraria.
C L A S S XVI
'A TRfJNDlllA.
O R D E R I.
Threadl tiiiiicil. Three Chives.
Sihrtl: Gen. Plant. V. II. f.A5\.
GENERIC C H A It A C TIC It.
BurALBHiMT. Sheaths iwoj •iMtinaUi. keeled,
involute, (inr-fluwered.
BLOSSOM MM pMal, abuve, fix divided; fegmetits
oblong, upright fprcading, crilp.
waved and [pulled; the three alternate outer
ones the Imi.idrll.
CHIVKS. 'Hire.id. tliree, in a cylindrical tube
llioner than the blollbm, joined together,
HH .arateal the lop. Tips nearly tgg-lhapcd,
double.
POINTAL. Seed-hud oblong, ihr.c-fided, hlunl,
beneath. Shaft thread Uiapcd, the. kogih
of the tube.
SUMMITS three, deeply two cleft.
SKV.D VKI-EL Capfulr ohlong, three fided, threecelled,
three-v»lved ; partitions contrary.
Si I !>-. many, round:Hi, covcied with a pulp-
S P K C I f lC CHAHACTK11.
mitilatU, qieciolilliniis; I Ferraria with blofloms nearly hellfliaped and
is intt rinritms liatlalis, vrrylliewy; Irgivirnts plain, the ihnc iuner
ilnatis, ball fpalhaceis. ones are halbcit-lliaped. and have huiieyf|
cups, lcaies plaited, llieaihiug at the bate.
lie, CtrlMUftj
_i, iexpavtita i laci>
Ipaioatibus, undulato*
'tribus aliernis oxterituhum
eylindra-
. . conuati. (npertw
rabovatH) didym*.
Iblonguni, nriquetrum,
"Stylus filifonnii, Ion
Ibifida. oblonp Iriqiirlra.lri
[iflcpim«itUcooir«rHj
lunda, pulpa involuta
B.BPEI1MC1 TO THE FLAT V..
two Sheaths of UM laiipalcmtnt.
mler l'elal ol the Flower,
imcr Petal ot the PloWtW.
Chive* and I'oimal.
!
u- Chives (brad open,
ic 1'oinlal complete, one of the fumtnits magnified.
he MetlCM plant Riven in I he 2nd. Vol. t. 91. f- 1. of Swerlius's Florilegium,
. Hriti.uiflez, in his Nov. Plant, kc. Hex. Hill. p. 270', in 1040J and of Mi.iis,
irs. in Ins Mo. Anier. I. t. 15; from whom it has been copied into the Suppl.
un.cusp. jt»~. and continued by I'rofeuot Manyn in his Mill. Die. Art. Ferliicli
was originally tornied on ilie I-Vrrnria ntulnlaia of die Cape, and placid
I.inrueiH. has been to continued by Martyn, btc, tint upon whal grounds, we
ii nil r from (lie impr.ic'ticjhilitv of dividing the tube of the
; which, in facta U.infitoty /lowers an ihole of Ferraria,
feem, in that llale, to t.nm a perfect iinifnn. Sclirebcr
Linn. Geo. I'latu. to where ilirv cenainlv mull (land, lo Mo-
« c k m continued the plant mid. r tin- title tty whiHi it is generally known,
•WhI pi inciple ; yet do we think, ii equally nei-i llarv to flair our opinion,
ill taken up, as the t.euus bad been ill clafliis
much nigher affined lo Sifyrinrhiuin, as it
ille.nli of one leaf, undulated crilped petals,
T i Iir length of ihe t lit IT: of the blollbm of any
unlets the m
.iii a dried foe.
Sec. all ot this 11 a I"'
, his Ed. of Li
ricai reference
|ay be Wen from
i have been a
irdill'eaion.
. Sec. H teat Ore <n BUJHUPUNU • » here extant, v._
iftant. Now, every diltiiiiiiiithn
flat or plain petals, liimmits m
Irda, theie ttrooi narhad ditlerei
n coincidence wilh Tlmnbeii;. h ihis plant; "hole whole tiinctiirt
If the inner petals lands emmeii fced plant,'was liilt intr.idnced It
it is now found i" noon *ollocu°
this climate, and from tbe
ther kiwuud or fringed; but our figure will
e-. It indeed we w cie lo stive an opinion, it
placing the whole Genus lo llama.) but to
but clpeci.illy from ihr Nertaria or honey -
v dillingiiilhcd Irom all others,
this coiinliv by lira. Hodifoa of Manchetler,
us round I he MtttOjualU. It is increalcd by
c, OM. „ . __,t, which m..ke* abundance of offsets. The flow -
litre or not upon carh Item at the tulcrtal ot a lew days . the Hem p M ing lo
i ferl. So very rapid is the progicl's ot the bli.Ilom in its decay, from ihc time
Is |UUUllMji about feven o'clock in the uorafag ; th.U before twelve, the lollrc
decayed by three, or four. Our drawing was made at ilie Ha-unieiliiiiih Nurherc
wrir I tuuuber of rlmver llems, which had not, an yet, made an ap|iearbclt
grown in peat earth.
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