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P L A T E DXXXL
N I T R A R I A SCHOBERI.
Schobers Nitraria.
C L A S S XL ORDER 1.
DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointai.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA 5-petala, cuculiata.
CALYX 5-lidus. Stamina 15. Drupa 1-sperma.
BLOSSOM five-petalled, hooded. ^ Ak.'^yjKxy^yx,
E M P A L E M E N T 5-clelt. Chives 15. Berry oneseeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
N I T E A R I A foliis integerrimiSj obtusis.
Habitat in Siberia.
Pallas's Flora Rossica, vol. i. tab. 50.
N I T E A R I A with entire leaves, blunt
Native of Siberia.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A petal.
3. Seed-budj chives, and pointai.
4. A chive magnified.
5. Seed-bud and pointai.
6. The same magnified.
TH:S species of Nitraria is named after Schober, a physician and lover of botany in Russia. It ^rows
in the barren salt deserts near the Caspian Sea, particularly about the salt lakes in Siberia, and is also
found m Astracan. It bears reddish berries of a salt taste, is a very rare plant in our gardens, but
successfially cultivated by Mr. Bell, who not only puts salt to the roots, but also on the foliage From
« plant of his thus treated our drawing was made last summer. Only one more species of the genus
has yet been discovered.
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