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 Knowltonia Vesicatoria. Blistering 



Knowltonia. 



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Clafs and Order. 



POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-phyIlus. Petala 5 aut plura, ungue nudo. Germinart- 

 ceptaculo globofo impofita. ifocc^plurimae l-fpermae. Vent. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



KNOWLTONIA veficatoria f foliis biternatis : foliolis ovali- 



bus ferratis glabris, umbella fubfimplici 



pauciflora, pctalis linearibus. 

 ADONIS veficatoria^ foliis biternatis: foliolis ferratis glabris 



floribus decapetalis. Linn Suppl. PL 272. 



Hort. Kcw. 2. p. 264. Mart. Mill. Dicl. 



a. 6. 

 ANAMENIA laferpitiifolia ; foliolis fubcordatis rigidis gla- 



briufculis : lateralibus bafi oblique trim- 



catis, umbella fubfimplici pauciflora. Vent. 



Hort. Malmaif. n. 22. in textu. 

 IMPERATORIA Ranunculoides Africana enneaphyllos La- 



ferpitii lobatis foliis rigidis margine fpinofis. 



Pluk. Aim. 198. Phyt. t. 95./. 2. 

 ASTRANTIA Africana Laferpitii foliis latioribus rigidis et 



fpinofis. Mori/. Hiji. 3. p. 279. 



M. Ventenat, a celebrated French Botanift, has very 

 properly feparated the fpecies of Cape Adonis from the others, 

 forming them into a diftin£l genus ; but as this was done before, 

 by R. A. Salisbury, Efq. in the Prodromus of Plants grow- 

 ing in his garden at Chapel Allerton, publifhed in 1796, we 

 retain the name of Knowltonia, given by him, in comme- 

 moration of Mr. Knowlton, an ingenious and fuccefsful 



cultivator, 



