Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo09paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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S.HdldeiL oel i lri\ (^t^^Lca^cc^y ■ /^^/Ci^tYC- Z... 7 ACACIA BIFLORA. Clan.POLYGAMIA. (Two-flowered Acacia.) Natural Order, LEGUMINOS^. Order, MONOECIA. Gbnebic Chatiacter.—Calyx four or five-toothed.Petals four or five, sometimes free, and sometimesjoined together into afour or five-cleft corolla. Stamensvariable in numher from ten to two hundred in eachflower. Legume continuous, dry, two-valved.—DonsGard. and Botany. Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub.Leaves small, sessile, alternate, unequal, knife-shaped,sharp-pointed. Flmvers axillary, solitary or in pairs,globose, deep yellow. By a reference to the botanical catalogues, it appears that the present speciesof Acacia was brought to this country in 1803. It has, however, been nearly orquite lost since that time, and was again raised, about two years back, from oneof the many importations made by Mr. Low, of Clapton, from New Holland. Itflowered at the Clapton Nursery in February and March 1841, and our artistma

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