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

  • William Jackson Hooker
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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    Roots much branched. Stems prostrate in the water. Leaves capillary, multifid with minute bristles at the margin, mixed with the vesicles. Scape erect, 4—6 inches high, C—8-flowered. Flowers in a raceme, large, bright yellow. Lower Up convex, much larger and broader than the upper one, and having a very projecting palate closing the mouth. Spur bent down, short. Anthers curved, thick, resembling those of Pinguicula. Stigma large, plain, roundish. Caps, globose. 2. U. intermedia (intermediate hooded Milfoil), spur conical, upper lip twice as long as the palate, leaves tripartite their segments linear dichotomous. E. B. t. 2489. Hab. Ditches and deep pools. In a ditch by the side of Rescalin Lake, . four miles east of Forfar, D.Don. Probably in a marsh at Possil and Robroyston, Glasgow, Hopk., since that gentleman found upon the plants there little green balls or bulbs, the germs of future in- dividuals, a mode of propagation considered peculiar to this species. Fl. June, July. ]/ . It is smaller than U. vulgaris, the Jlowers are of a paler colour, and have a longer upper lip. The stems are more leafy, and the vesicles grow distinct from the leaves. The latter are broader, linear, tri- partite, with the segments again di- trichotomous, the margins bristly. 3. U. minor (lesser hooded Milfoil), spur extremely short ob- tuse keeled upper lip as long as the palate, leaves subtri- partite the segments linear dichotomous. Lightf. p. 78. E. B. t. 254. Hab. Ditches and pools, rare. Coryattachan in Skie, Lightf. Turf- pits, east side of Black Loch, Kirkmichael, Dumfries-shire, Dr. Bur- gess. Loch near Kilpatrick, Hopk. Peat-pits, Ravelrig-toll, Edinb., Maugh. Fl. June, July. 21. Still smaller than the last. Vesicles mixed with the leaves. Leaves glabrous at the margin. Flowers 5—G, very pale yellow. Spur scarcely any. Lower lip almost plane, palate rather smaller, not closing the mouth, equal in length to the upper lip. 7. LYCOPUS. 1. L. europceus (Water Horehound), leaves deeply sinuato-ser- rate. Ligh/f p. 79. E. B. t. 1105. Hab. Ditches and river-banks (not in Fl. Glott). Margins of Loch of Lindore, Fifeshire, D.Don. In Arranj Delvine^ Perthshire, Mr. Murray. Fl. June, July. %. Stems two feet, erect, four-sided, as in all the Class Didynamia and . Ord. Gymnosp. (Labiatce Juss.), to which very natural family this and the following genus belong, though placed here in consequence of their having but two stamens. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, large, ovato-lanceolate, rugose, very deeply sinuato-serrate, almost pinnatifid, especially the lower ones. Flowers sessile, in dense whorls at the base of the superior leaves, whitish with purple dots, ' hairy within.
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