Flora Scotica, or A description of Scottish plants : arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods ; in two parts / by William Jackson Hooker.

  • Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Flora Scotica, or A description of Scottish plants : arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods ; in two parts / by William Jackson Hooker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    racemes long erect approaching the stem subsimple nearly leafless. Light/, p. )4>S. E. B. t. 717. \ Hab. Wasteplaces and underwalls in towns and villages. Ft. Aug. 0. Stems erect, angular. Leaves large, truncate at their base, light or sub- glaucous green, their margins deeply and irregularly toothed. Flow- ers on the racemes in rather small hut distant clusters, very long and erect. Seeds large, as big as rape seed (Sm.). 6. Ch. rubrum (red Gooie/oot), leaves rhomboido-triangular deeply toothed and sinuated, racemes erect compound leafy. Light/, p. 148. E.B. t.\12\. Hab.Dunghills and under walls. Fl. Aug. Sept. O . Darker green than the last. Stems reddish. Leaves lengthened out at the base, by no means truncate. Racemes veiy compound. Seeds- small. 7. Ch. murale [Nettle-leaved Goosefooi), leaves ovateapproach- ing to rhomboid acute toothed shining, racemes much branch- ed subcymose leafless. Light/, p. 148. E. B. 1.1722. Hab. Under walls and in waste places about towns and villages. F/.Aug. ©. Branches of the raceme spreading. Flowers rather distant. Smell un- pleasant. 8. Ch. fiybridum (Maple-leaved Goose/oot), leaves cordate an- gulato-dentate acuminate, clusters very much branched sub- cvmose divaricated leafless. Light/, p. 149. E. B. t. 1919. Hab. Waste places and in cultivated fields 5 but not common, Light/. About Edinburgh, G.Don. H.Aug. Q. Stems slender, leaves large with very prominent teeth or angles. Ra- cemes much like the last, but branches more distant and spreading. 9. Ch. album (white Goose/oot), leaves ovate inclining to rhom- boid erose entire at the base upper ones oblong perfectly entire, racemes branched somewhat leafy, seeds smooth. Light/ p. 148. E.B.t. 1723. /3. Leaves greener more entire, racemes elongate more branched. . Hab. Waste places, dunghills, &e. common. FL July, Aug. ©. Leaves covered with a mealy substance, varying in width and in the erosion or blunt toothing of the upper half of the margins of the leaves. When nearly entire, it is the Ch. viride of Linn. 37. BETA. ]. B. maritima (Sea-side Beet), stems procumbent at the base, flowers solitary or in pairs, calycine segments entire. Light/, p. 150. E. B. t. 285. Hab. Sea-shore, in muddy places. Bass Island, Dr. Parsons. Op- posite Gosfordgate, Mr. P. Ncill. Sea-shore, near Kirkcaldy, Maugh., and Mr. Somervillc. Near Crammond, Dr. Jf'illis. Fl. August. %. Root large, thick, fleshy. Stem tall, branched, angular. Radical leaves subovate, succulent, entire, waved. Spikes of flowers nu- merous, leafy; leaves small at the base of each flower or pair of