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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    seeded. (Ffowers 2, on a apadix arising from the sheathing bases of the leaves, which perform the office of % spat ha.) (Cerastium tetrandrum, Dkcandr. Puntac.) ]. MONOGYNIA. 1. DIPSACUS. 1. D. Fullonum (Fuller's Teasel), leaves 6ubconnate, scale* of the receptacle hooked at the extremity, involucres spreading (rcflexed, Sin.). Light/, p. 1 13. E.'lJ. t. 2080. Hab. Rude uncultivated places, as at Lord Elgin's lime-works, near Dunfermling, Sec, Light/. Fields near Cathcart and Langside, Glasgow, Hoph. Fl. July, Aug. $ . Stem 4—5 feet high, very angular, and prickly. Leaves large, oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, obtusely and irregularly serrated, sometimes, especially the upper ones, connate. Involucre spreading, about as long as the head of flowers. Floivers in oval heads, pale purple or whitish.—Used in dressing cloth, for which purpose the hooked scales of the receptacle are admirably calculated. 2. D. sylvestris (wild Teasel), leaves opposite rarely connate, scales of the receptacle straight, involucres curved upward. E. B. t. 1032. Hab. Inch Colin, near Edinb., Maugh. Fl. July. <$. The more slender habit, the leaves not or scarcely ever connate, in- volucre not spreading, and the scales of the receptacle being straight are the principal marks which serve todistinguish this from the pre- ceding. 3. D. pilosus (small Teasel), leaves petiolate with a small leaflet at the base on each side, involucres short deflexed. Light/, p. 113. E. B. t. 877. Hab. Moist hedges, but not common, Light/ Fl. Aug. Sept. ^. Stem slender, 2—4 feet high, angular, rough with short inflexed prickles, longer, and resembling bristles, on the peduncles. Leaves ovato-acuminate, serrated, eared at the base. Heads of flowers smallish, round, hairy. Scales straight, blossoms white. Anthers white, much protruded. 2. SCABIOSA. 1. S. succisa (Devil's-Ut Scabious), corollas 4-cJeft their seg- ments equal, cauline leaves subdentate, heads of flowers nearly globose. Light/, p. 114. E.B.t.S7S. Hab. Meadows and pastures, common. Fix July, Aug. 1/ . Root as it were cut off abruptly, or bitten (radix -preemorsa). Stems nearly simple. Leaves hairy, rather stiff; radical ones ovate, mostly petiolate ; those of the stem oblong. Flowers purplish blue. 2. 8. arvensis (Field Scabious), corollas 4-cleft radiating, stern hispid branched, stem-leaves pinnatifid (often) cut, Light/, p. 114. E. B. I. 659.