Curtis's Botanical Magazine/Volume 15

by John Sims

Curtis's

Botanical Magazine;

OR,

Flower-Garden Displayed:


IN WHICH
The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the
Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are ac-
curately represented in their natural Colours.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according
to the celebrated Linnæus; their Places of Growth, and
Times of Flowering:

TOGETHER WITH
THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE.

A WORK

Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as
wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate.

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Continued by

John Sims, M.D.

Fellow of the Linnean Society.

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VOL. XV.

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     Ye vallies low,
Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes,
That on the green turf suck the honied showers
And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies,
The tufted crow-toe, and the pale jessamine,
The white pink, and the pansy streakt with jet;
The glowing violet,
The musk-rose and the well attired woodbine,
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head
And every flower that sad embroidery wears:
Bid Amarantus all his beauty shed,
And daffadillies fill their cups with tears,
To strew the grave where CURTIS lies.

                          Milton.

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LONDON:

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M DCCC I.

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PREFACE

A Second volume of the Botanical Magazine having
been brought to a conclusion since the death of Mr.
Curtis, it seems proper that the very liberal encouragement
this work has continued to receive should be gratefully ac-
knowledged, the demand for it being by no means diminished,
notwithstanding the irreparable loss sustained by that melancholy
event, and the increased price, which the pressure of the times
has made necessary.

To a few readers it may not be totally uninteresting to learn
how the Botanical Magazine came under the present direction.
Long before his death Mr. Curtis, perceiving his dissolution
gradually approaching, naturally became anxious to secure to his
family the pecuniary benefits arising from the sale of the Work,
their sole dependance. In order to lessen the impediments to
carrying it on, he laboured, as much as his infirm state of health
would permit, to arrange and increase the necessary materials.
He applied to several of his most eminent botanical friends
and obtained their promise of assistance. Finally, in the con-
fidence of friendship, he subjected the future management to the
controul of the present Editor, with whom he had many years
lived in habits of intimacy. How far this confidence had been
justified by the event, with respect to his family, cannot be a
general concern, nor is it necessary to say any thing of the Work
itself as far as it has hitherto proceeded: it is before a dis-
cerning public and it's merit will be fairly appreciated.

In the construction of these volumes, but little use has lat-
terly been made of the materials left by Mr. Curtis for several
reasons, principally from a desire to preserve them as entire as
possible for the service of the proprietors, in case of emergency,
and a wish to indulge our botanical readers with a representa-
tion and description of some of the novel and curious plants
which are annually introduced, particularly from the Cape of
Good Hope. In one natural order ( the Ensatæ of
––––– Irides of ) such additions have been made to our
                              former

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former stock as to render the nomencature a mass of con-
fusion. No part of Europe contains so copious a collection
of these plants as the neighbourhood of London, the botanical
world have therefore some right to expect an elucidation of this
subject in our magazine, and the Editor thinks himself particu-
larly fortunate in having met with so able and liberal a coadju-
tor in this difficult task.

What has been already done will shew how much is due to
the industry and abiltiy of John Bellenden Gawler, esq.
with whose assistance we hope in a few numbers to complete so
lucid an arrangement of the principal part of this order, that no
Botanist will hereafter find any difficulty in reducing the indi-
viduals to their proper genera.

The same Artists are employed in every department of the
Work as in Mr. Curtis's time. This will, it is hoped, insure
the same excellence of execution, which is such that the figures
in the Botanical Magazine, for elegance as well as correct-
ness, will in general suffer nothing by a comparison with the
most expensensive botanical works, a fact loudly attested by the
circumstance that a large proportion of the ornaments of our
most expensive porcelain and cabinet ware is copied from them.
The Botanical Magazine will continue to be carried on as much
as possible on the same plan as by Mr, Curtis himself. If some-
what more of critical discussion should have been introduced,
our botanical friends will easily perceive that the subject de-
manded it, and whilst the price is not thereby increased, it is
not apprehended that any one will complain.

For himself, the Editor solicits the indulgence of the learned
Botanist, an indulgence he feels to be more than ordinarily neces-
sary; for being engaged in a laborious and important profession,
and having ever made Botany his amusement, never a serious
study, he has greater dependance upon the continued assist-
ance of his more learned friends than upon the exertion of his
own abilities. But, with this aid, he flatters himself that the Bo-
tanical Magazine will continue in every respect to deserve the
public favour as well as it has heretofore done.

Indexes

In which the Latin Names of the
Plants contained in the
Fifteenth Volume are alphabetically
arranged.

Pl.

/513 Aloe variegata.

/525 Antirrhninum triornithophorum.

/544 Arctotis anthmoides.

/534 Atistolochia Sipho.

/530 Atragene alpina, var. austriaca.

/512 Campanula pumila.

/511 Chirona linoides.

/608 Chrysanthemum tricolor.

/510 Canvallaria bifolia.

/526 Cornus Florida.

/505 Dianella Cærulea.

/543 Epidendrum cucullatum.

/532 Ferraria Tigridia.

/539 Gladiolus undulatus.

/531 Iris tuberosa.

/548 Ixia bicolor.

/545 Ixia bulbifera.

/539 Ixia conica.

/523 Ixia fistulosa.

/541 Ixia grandiflora

/522 Ixia patens.

/542 Ixia scillaris, var. latifloia.

/517 Lavatera thuringiaca.

/519 Lilium philadelphicum.

/515 Lithospermum orientale.

/514 Lobelia bicolor.

/529 Melastoma malabathrica.

/540 Mesembryanthemum pomeridia,

num.

/546 Monarda didyma.

/520 Moræa spiralis.

/521 Orubus vernus.

/547 Pelargonium quinatum.

/524 Pelargonium pulchellum

/518 Pelargonium tomentosum

/528 Phlox ovata.

/507 Sempervirum globiferum.

/509 Sophora australis.

/516 Sparmannia africana.

/506 Stapelia lentiginosa.

/536 Stapelia Asterias.

/535 Viola palmata.

/533 Watsonia aletroides.

/537 Wastonia rosea-alba.

/527 Zinnia, elegans.

In which the English Names of
the Plants contained in the
Fifteenth Volume are alphabetically
arranged.

Pl.

/513 Aloe, partridge-breast.

/544 Arctosis, chamomile.

/534 Birthwort, broad-leav'd.

/512 Campanula, dwarf.

/511 Chironia, flax-leav'd

/508 Chrysantheum, three-coloured.

/526 Cornel, great-flowered,

/547 Crane's-Bill, five-fingered.

/524 Crane's-Bill, nonesuch.

/518 Cranes-Bill, penny-royal.

/505 Dianella, blue.

/543 Epidendrum, hooded.

/532 Ferraria, mexican.

/540 Fig-marigold, great yellow-

flowered

/538 Gladolus, waved flowered.

/515 Gromwell, yellow.

/507 House-leek, globular.

/531 Iris, snakes-head.

/522 Ixia, crimson.

/523 Ixia, hollow-leav'd.

/537 Ixia, orange-coloured.

/548 Ixia, ringent.

/542 Ixia, squill-flowered.

/545 Ixia, sulphur flowered.

/541 Ixia, velvet-flowered.

/517 Lavatera, great-flowered.

/519 Lily, phildelphian.

/514 Lobelia, spotted.

/529 Melastoma, cinnamon-leav'd.

/546 Monarda, scarlet-flowered.

/520 Moræa. spiral-flowered.

/521 Orubus, early-flowering.

/528 Philox, ovate-leav'd.

/516 Sparmannia, african.

/525 Snapdragon, three-bird bearing.

/510 Solomon's-seal, least.

/509 Sophora, blue.

/506 Stapelia, freckled.

/536 Stapelia, star-fish.

/535 Violet, palmated.

/530 Virgin's-bower, austrian

/533 Watsonia, aletris-like

/537 Watsonia, long-tubed.

/527 Zinnia violet-coloured.

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