Loudon's encyclopædia of plants : comprising the specific character, description, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous to, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain / [J.C. Loudon].

John Claudius Loudon

Date:: 1855

Credit: Loudon's encyclopædia of plants : comprising the specific character, description, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous to, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain / [J.C. Loudon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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It has been so long in cultivation that its native country is unknown. Linna?us and Miller consider it as a native of India; Professor Martyn of the south of Europe. 265. Knautia. So named by Linnaeus in honor of Christopher Knaut, physician at Halle in Saxony : born in 1636 ; died in 1694. Another Knaut (Christian) published a system of plants in 1706, which has nothing to recommend it. 266. Galium. Derived from ya.\a., milk; because one sort is used for the purpose of curding milk. This is a very natural genus; the roots of most of the sorts dye red, and the herb, like madder, colors the bones of ani- mals that feed on it. The stems of all the species are four-cornered, and the leaves in whorls; the flowers ge-$