The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Isotoma (To the species described on pp)

To the species described on pp. 202-3, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

I. petraea (rock-loving). fl., white, verging to flesh-colour, 1 1/2in. long, the segments horizontal or reflexed, the three lower ones yellowish at their junction. l. lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, unequally laciniate. Stems branched, often 1ft. long and many-flowered. Flinders Range. Plant highly glabrous.

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