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PETUNIA* violacea. 





Purple Petunia. 







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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat. ord. Solane^ Juss. 



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^PETUNIA!- Calyx breve tubulosus, laciniis Miosis Corolla tubo 

 eylindraceo v. ventricoso, limbo plicato insequali piano 5-lobo. ^ am ^ a ^ 

 in^qualia, inclusa, medio tubo corolke inserts Ovarium d.sco insertum 

 dente unico utrinque ad suturam instructo. Stigma capitatum. Lapsula 

 valvis 2 integris, seminibus sphsericis reticulatis. 



P. violacea; caulibus prostratis viscido-pilosis, foliis ovatis brevi-petiolatis 

 acutis, corollse ventricosse laciniis ovatis acutis. 



grifolia. i/ooAer in for. »»a$r 



3113. 



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Nierembergia phoenicea. Brit.fi 



Semina minuta, spharica, palhae it*!.™™ , •«••■• :~~; * . . ori fl /*j 

 hilo mmimo. Embryo brevis, rectus, in axi albummis copwsi earnest aUn, 



radicul& kilo versd. 





A native of Buenos Ayres, and, like a 1 <^^^ 

 plants from the same country, qu.te hardy in England 



during the summer ; in winter it requ.res £*•*•" J™» 

 frost.° There is perhaps no plant yet in our i Gar ^"™* 

 is quite so handsome as this; even ^^^^"f 



folia, superior as it is in colour, must yield to , i ,m point o 



general "beauty. It forces well : grown in aiwj* 

 with its prostrate branches tied to the bars of z trell .. o 

 wire screen, it soon covers a space three fee ^ r ™ 

 it. leaves and flowers, and so becomes a ^"B"* 



before any of the hardy border-flowers ba,e begun 



expand. Planted singly against a wall or le 



Petun is .he Brazilian name of o,o of tk. speaes. 





