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CALCEOLARIA MIRABILIS ; mr. Jiybr. 



{Admirable Calceolaria.') 

 LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL ORDER. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. SCROPHULARIACE.E. {IAndl.) 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 {VideM. 21.) 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 C. mirabilis; caule herbaceo villoso ; foliis ovatis obtusis crenato-serratis rugosis villosis ; 

 paniculis laxis terminalibus axillaribusque ; pedicettis longis gracillimis nutantibus ; corollce labio 

 superiore minimo, inferiore subrotundato crenato sub-compresso. 



Descr. — Stem herbaceous, hairy ; leaves ovate, obtuse, crenato-serrated, rugose, hairy ; 

 panicles loose, terminal, and axillary ; pedicels -long, yery slender, nodding ; upper lip of the 

 corolla very small, lower lip somewhat rounded, crenate, rather compressed. 



This splendid hybrid excels in richness of colour most of the varieties of this 

 favourite genus that have hitherto come under our observation. Our drawing 

 was made from a plant in the collection of John Willmore, Esq., of Oldford, It 

 was raised in 1 834 by Mr. Skirving, of the Walton Nursery, near Liverpool, who 

 informs us that it was obtained from C. pendida, impregnated with insignis ; and 

 that the specimen plant grown in the Walton Nursery this year (1836) displayed 

 at one time upwards of 800 blooms, and continued in full flower upwards of three 

 months. Such a plant may justly claim the specific name which it has received. 



The scrophulariacece, to which Calceolaria belongs, form a most extensive 

 natural order of plants, agreeing in certain important characters with the genus 

 scrophularia. They are distributed over every part of the habitable globe, not 

 only within the tropics, but in the coldest regions ; one species being found as far 

 north as Melville Island. Calceolarias abound in South America, particularly in 

 Chili and Peru, from whence nearly all our original species have been obtained. 

 The leaves and roots of some of them are stated by De Candolle to possess emetic 

 properties, but they are not regarded in European practice. 



To trace plants to the station which they hold in the natural system, by 

 observing the points in which they resemble each other, and thus determining 



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