Four-o’clock and foxglove hybrids
Date
1865
Creator
Debray (French) , Engraver
After
Alfred Riocreux (1820, French) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
RCN8171
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 294mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical studies showing the flowers of two hybridisations. A. Mirabilis longifloro-jalapa, the first generation cross between Angel’s trumpets Mirabilis longiflora and the Four-o’ Clock or Marvel of Peru, Mirabilis jalapa (four figures). B. Digitalis luteo-purpurea, a supposed cross between the Yellow foxglove Digitalis lutea and the Common foxglove Digitalis purpurea (four figures).
Plate 2 accompanying the paper ‘Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dams les végétaux’, by Charles Naudin, Nouvelles archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.1 (Paris, 1865) pp.25-176.
Inscribed above: ‘Nouvelles archives du Muséum. Mémoires. Tom.I Pl.2.’ Inscribed below: ‘A. MIRABILIS LONGIFLORO-JALAPA. B. DIGITALIS LUTEO-PURPUREA…Riocreux del. Debray sc. Imp. A. Salmon, à Paris.’
Charles Victor Naudin (1815-1899) French botanist and pioneer of selection studies in plant-breeding.
Plate 2 accompanying the paper ‘Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dams les végétaux’, by Charles Naudin, Nouvelles archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.1 (Paris, 1865) pp.25-176.
Inscribed above: ‘Nouvelles archives du Muséum. Mémoires. Tom.I Pl.2.’ Inscribed below: ‘A. MIRABILIS LONGIFLORO-JALAPA. B. DIGITALIS LUTEO-PURPUREA…Riocreux del. Debray sc. Imp. A. Salmon, à Paris.’
Charles Victor Naudin (1815-1899) French botanist and pioneer of selection studies in plant-breeding.
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