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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    broader at the base. Stigma trifid. Caps. 3—5-celled, open- ing with lateral pores. ;;>9. Lonicera. Cor. irregular. Berry I—3 - celled; cells many- seeded. i **** Flowers of 5 (in Euonymus and Rhamnus often of 4) petals, inferior. i(]0. Rhamnus. Cal. urceolate, 4—5-cleft. Berry 2—4-celled, 2—4-seeded. 51. Euonymus. Cal. plane, 4—5-cleft. Caps, with 5 angles, 5-celled, 5-valved. Seeds covered by a coloured arillus. !21. Impatiens. Cal. of 2 leaves. Cor. irregular, lower petal or nectary cucullate. Anthers connate. Caps, of 5 elastic valves. !22. Viola. Cal. 5-cleft, the segments produced at the base. Cor. irregular ; upper petal spurred at the base. Anlh. con- nate. Caps. 1-celled, 3-valved. ***** Flowers of 5 petals, superior. >32. Ribes. Cal. 5-cleft, bearing the Petals and Stam. Style bifid. Berry 1-celled, many-seeded. ['33. Hedera. Cal. 5-toothed. Petals broadest at the base. Style simple. Berry 5-seeded, crowned by the Cal. ****** Flowers incomplete. >34. Glaux. Perianth single, inferior, campanulate, coloured, 5-lobed. Caps, globose, 1-celled, 5-valved, 5-seeded. 2. DIGYNIA. * Flowers monopetalous, inferior. ;41. Gentiana. Cor. tubular at the base, campanulate or infun- dibuliform, destitute of nectariferous pores. Caps, of 1 cell, 2-valved, with the seeds fixed to the inner margin of the valves. -.40. Cuscuta. Cal. 4—5-cleft. Cor. campanulate, 4—5-lobed. Caps, bursting all round transversely at the base, 2-celled, with the cells 2-seeded. ** Flowers incomplete. ^38. Salsola. Perianth single, inferior, 5-cleft, persistent, enve- • loping the fruit with its base, and crowning it with its broad scariose limb. Seed single, its cotyledon spiral. ;36. Chenopodium. Perianth single, inferior, 5-cleft, persistent, closing upon, but not wholly enveloping, the fruit. Seed single, orbicular. •37. Beta. Perianth single, semi-inferior, 5-cleft, persistent. Seed single, reniform, imbedded in the fleshy base of the Cal.