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The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 10 / Or, Flower-Garden Displayed

Chapter 23: 345—Polygala Bracteolata
By William Curtis
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A sequence of coloured botanical plates is paired with concise Linnaean names and diagnostic characters, followed by descriptions of form, flowering time, native or introduced range, and recommended methods of cultivation and propagation. Individual entries emphasize morphological detail useful for identification and note practical growing habits observed in collections. The volume supplies systematic indexes that organize species by Latin and English names, hardiness, and whether they suit open ground, greenhouse, or stove culture. The result serves as a combined visual reference and hands-on guide for recognizing and cultivating a wide range of ornamental plants.

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Polygala Bracteolata. Spear-Leaved Milkwort.

Class and Order.

Diadelphia Octandria.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus: foliolis alæformibus coloratis. Legumen obcordatum biloculare.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

POLYGALA bracteolata floribus cristatis racemosis, bractæis triphyllis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, caule fruticoso. Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 638. Berg. Cap. 182. Buxb. Cent. 3. p. 4. t. 71. Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 4.

No. 345

To the vast number or ornamental plants introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Masson, we here add another, imported in 1787; when Mr. Aiton published his Hortus Kewensis, it most probably had not flowered with him, as he does not notice its particular time of blowing: we now see it in most of the Nurserymen's collections of greenhouse plants, flowering from May to July. It is a plant of great singularity and beauty, the purple of its flowers is brilliant in the extreme.

It is increased by cuttings.