Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 710 - Hypoxis erecta (Upright Hypoxis) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 710, Hypoxis erecta (Upright Hypoxis).

• Plate: 710
• Latin name: Hypoxis erecta
• Common name: Upright Hypoxis
• Native region: Carolina; Virginia
• Linnaean class / order: Hexandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Jan. 1, 1804
• Artist: S. J. Edwards
• Engraver: F. Sansom
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 710 ]

HYPOXIS ERECTA. UPRIGHT HYPOXIS

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Class and Order.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
—Vid. Nos. 662 & 709.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
HYPOXIS erecta; bulbo tunicate, elongato, membranaceo-larvato; foliis canaliculato-linearibus erectis scapis longe superantibus, pilis rarioribus utrinque adspersis; racemo 2—6 floro, terminali, bracteato, substignante; stigmate subtrilobo-capitato, hirtulo. G. HYPOXIS erecta. Sp. Pl. 439. Syst. 326. Hort. Kew. 1. 438. Mart. Mill. Dict. (excluso Smith spicil. ?) Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 106. HYPOXIS caroliniensis. Michaax Flor. Bor. Amer. 1. 188. ORNITHOGALUM hirsutum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1. p. 306. ORNITHOGALUM scapo bifloro. Roy. Lugdb. 31. ORNITHOGALUM vernum luteum foliis angulis hirfutis. Gron. Virg. 1. 37. et 2. 51. Raii Hist. 1927. ORNITHOGALUM virginianum luteum. Pet. Gaz. 1. t. 1. f. 11. ORNITHOGALUM herbaceum luteum parvum virginianum, foliis gramineis hirfutis. Pluk. Alm. 272. Phyt. t. 350. f. 8. bona. Trusting to the accuracy of the description and figure of Hypoxis juncea in the Spicilegium by Dr. Smith, there appear to us to be distinctions sufficient to require its specific separation from erecta: the plant is altogether slenderer; the scapes are one-flowered, ebracteate, longer in proportion to the leaves and reddish upwards; leaves not hairy on their inner side, petals of the corolla having a reddish streak on the outside, concave, and not flatly expanded; stigma feathery and longer

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