Outlines of British fungology : containing characters of above a thousand species of fungi, and a complete list of all that have been described as natives of the British Isles / by M.J. Berkeley.
- Date:
- 1860
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Outlines of British fungology : containing characters of above a thousand species of fungi, and a complete list of all that have been described as natives of the British Isles / by M.J. Berkeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![[Specimen Page.] CRUCIFERiE. 3 1. Common Wintercress. Barbarea vulgaris, Br. (Erysimum barharea. Eng. Bot. t. 443. Wintercress. Yellow BocJcet.) A perennial of short duration, stiff and erect, green and glabrous, sparingly branched, 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves mostly pinnate, with the terminal lobe large, broad, and very obtuse, whilst the lower ones are few, small, and nar- row ; very rarely all the lobes are nar- row, or some of the leaves oblong and undivided, but deeply toothed at the base. Flowers rather small, bi'ight yellow. Pods usually very numerous, erect or slightly spreading, and crowd- ed in a long dense raceme, each one from f to 2, or even 3 inches long, ter- minated by an erect, usually pointed style, varying from | a line to 2 lines in length. Hedges, or pastures and waste places, common aU over Europe, in Eussian Asia and northern America. Frequent in Britain. Fl. spring and summer. It varies much in the relative size of the lobes of the leaves in the size of the flowers, in the length and thickness of the pod, in the length of the style, etc. A form with a very short and thick style, is often considered as a species, under the name of B. prcEcox (Eng. Bot. t. 1129), but it passes by every gradation into those which have a pointed style of 2 lines, and which have again been distinguished under the name of B. stricta. IV. WATERCRESS. NASTURTIUM. Glabrous perennials or annuals, with the leaves often pinnate or pinnately lobed, and small white or yellow flowers. Calyx rather loose. Stigma capitate, nearly sessile. Pod linear or oblong, and usually curved, or in some species short like a silicule, the valves very convex, with the midrib scarcely visible. Seeds more or less distinctly arranged in two rows in each cell, and not winged. Radicle accumbent on the edge of the cotyledons. Pod usually half an inch long or more. Flowers white 1. Common W. Flowers yellow 2. Creeping W.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21958476_0567.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
