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P O L Y G A L A MIXTA.
Mixt Polygala.
C L A S S XVIL ORDER IlL
DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Eight Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX 5-phyIlus : foliolis duobus alaeformibus,
coloratis : legumen obcordatum, biloculare.
Cup 5-leaved, with two of the leaves hke wings,
coloured: pod inverse heart-shaped, twocelled.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PoLYGALA floribus imberbibus, axillaribus, purpuréis
: foliis fasciculatis, 5—6 in singulo
fascículo, linearibus, acutis, valde confertis
inter flores : caule suftruticoso: ramulis
filiformibus, patentibus.
PoLYGALA with beardless flowers, growing from
the axillae of the leaves, and of a purple
colour: the leaves grow in fascicles, 5 and
6 in each fascicle, linear, sharp-pointed,
and very much crowded amongst tlie
flowers: stem shrubbyish : branches threadshaped,
and spreading.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement magnified.
2. The keel magnified.
3 . One of the wings magnified.
4 . The chives magnified.
5. The pointal magnified.
6. Flower of a white variety.
AMONGST the numerous introductions of novelty to tlie gardens of G. Hibbert, esq. the Hesteria section
of the genus Polygala (although not splendid) are all of them particularly desirable, from their lively,
long, and (of this species) we may say continual bloom ; it having been seen in flower throughout
the whole year. There is a variety of it with white flowers of equal durability, and so perfect a fac
simile in every other particular, that a separate figure will by no means be requisite, especially as in the
winter season the purple flowers are sometimes almost bleached by the cold, and the distinction in consequence
less apparent. It is well known by the cultivators under the appellation of mixta; a specific
given to it from the promiscuous manner in which the flowers and leaves are profusely mixt together.
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