Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 268 - Glycine rubicunda (Dingy-flowered Glycine) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 268, Glycine rubicunda (Dingy-flowered Glycine).

• Plate: 268
• Latin name: Glycine rubicunda
• Common name: Dingy-flowered Glycine
• Native region: New South-Wales
• Flowering: April to June
• Linnaean class / order: Diadelphia / Decandria
• Publication: Mar.t 1794
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

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GLYCINE RUBICUNDA. DINGY-FLOWERED GLYCINE.

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Class and Order.
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Generic Character.
Cal. 2-labiatus. Corollae carina apice vexillum reflexens.

Specific Character.
GLYCINE rubicunda caule perenni volubili, foliis ternatis, foliolus subovalibi integermimis, pedunculis subtrifloris. The plant here figured, and very generally known to the Nurserymen, in the neighbourhood of London, by the name of Glycine rubicunda, is a native of New South-Wales, and was introduced to this country about the fame time as the Glycine bimaculata already figured.

It is a shrubby, twining plant, running up to the height of five, fix, or more feet, producing bloffoms abundantly from April to June, which are ufually fucceeded by feed-veffels which ripen their feeds with us. The flowers though large and fhowy, have a kind of dingy or lurid appearance, which greatly diminifhes their beauty. We have oblerved the bloffoms of fome plants more brilliant than thol of others, and we think it highly probable, that, at fome future period, feminal varieties may be obtained with flowers highly improved in colour. This fpecies is readily raifed from feeds, is of quick growth, and may be regarded as one of our more hardy green-houfe plants: probably it may fucceed in the open air, if planted in a warm fituation, and fheltered in inclement feafons.

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