Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 807 - Silene chloraefolia (Armenian Catchfly) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 807, Silene chloraefolia (Armenian Catchfly).

• Plate: 807
• Latin name: Silene chloraefolia
• Common name: Armenian Catchfly
• Native region: Armenia
• Flowering: August
• Linnaean class / order: Decandria / Trigynia
• Publication: Octr 1 1803
• Artist: Syd. Edwards del.
• Engraver: E. Sanbury sculp.
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 807 ]

SILENE CHLORAEFOLIA. ARMENIAN CATCHFLY.

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Class and Order.
DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cal. ventricosus. Petala 5 unguiculata; coronata ad faucem. Caps. trilocularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
SILENE chloraefolia; calycibus glabris clavatis, petalis semifidis, foliis glaucis: inferioribus ovalibus, summis cordatis amplexicaulibus. Smith Icon 1. t. 13. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 707. LYCHNIS orientalis viscosa, centaurei lutei folio, flore longissimo. Tournef. Cor. 24. We are indebted to Mr. LODDIGES, of Hackney, for the living plant, from which our drawing was made, of this rare species of Silene, hitherto known to modern Botanists only by the description and figure of it by the learned president of the Linnean Society, as above quoted. To the description there given we have nothing to add, but to confirm what is there only suspected, that the root is perennial. The name itself is so particularly happy, that from it alone we at first sight immediately recognized the plant. Flowers in August. Scentless.

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