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Micuauxta CaMPANULOIDES. RoucH- — 
LEAv’D MICHAUXIA. 4 
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FEE TNE TEE EEE ET MAE TEE BENE TE TEE 
~ Clafs and Order. 
OcranprRiAa MonocGyNIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. 16-partitus. Cor. rotata, 8-partita. NedZarium 8-valve, 
ftlaminiferum. Cap/ 8-locularis, :polyfperma. L’ Heritier 
Monogr. § 
Specific Charaé?er and Synonyms. 
MICHAUXIA campanuloides. L’ Heritier Monogr. 
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The celebrated author of the Hortus Kewenfis informs u 
that the plant here figured is a native of the Levant, -a 
was introduced to this country in the year 1787, by Mo 
L’ Herirrer, who firft gave it the name of Michauxia, 
wrote a Monographia, or particular treatife on it. 
We have before obferved, that when a plant has bee 
named in honour of any particular perfon, that name mu 
be retained in all countries, however uncouth its pronunci 
tion may be, and there are few of our readers but what wi 
think the prefent name fufficiently fo. 
Laft fummer 1792, in the month of July, we had th 
pleafure to fee a fine plant of this fort, -fully blown, in the 
- colle&tion of Meffrs. Grimwoop and Co. Kenfington; 
though in a fmall pot, it grew nearly to the height of fix feet, 
was branched almoft to the bottom, and loaded with a pro- 
fufion of bloffoms, fuch as are reprefented on the plate, and 
. which bore fome diftant refemblance to thofe of a paflion 
flower. : 
It is a biennial green-houfe side and, of courfe, onl 
to be raifed from feeds, which we are forry to find have no 
ripened in this country, though they are faid todo fo in France 
