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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    rivers and groves about Glasg. an banks of the Clyde at Clyde works, Daldowie, Bothwell and Hamilton. Banks of the Cafder abundantly, Hoplc, who says that this species and the purple flowered var. of S. offic. are by far the most frequent in the environs of Glasg-. Cliesh, Mr. Amott. Shady woods and river banks, fre- quent, D. Don. Fl. July. % • Much like the last, but simple, or only very slightly branched above. Upper leaves, from which the peduncles spring, generally in pairs, large, ovato-lanceolate, a little decurrent; whereas those of S. offic. are very narrow and running down into winged appendages to the stem. 7. BORAGO. 1. B. officinalis (commo?i Borage), lower leaves obovate atte- nuate at the base, segments of the cor. ovate aeute spreading. E. B. t. 36. Hab. Scarcely an aboriginal native of Britain. Road-sides and among rubbish, as at Burntisland, Mangh. About Glasg., but generally near gardens, Hopk. Fl. June, July. S • Whole plant very hispid. Radical leaves ovate or obovate, petiolate. Stem leaves petiolate and eared at the base, superior ones sessile. Cor. large, brilliant blue. 8. ASPERUGO. ]. A. procumlens {German Madworl). Lighlf. p. 135. E. B. t. 661. Hab. Waste places, but not common. By the church at Dunbar, Light/. (I found it in 1808 plentifully among the ruins of the castle at Dunbar.) Guillon Links, Mr. Amott and Mr. Stewart. Fl. June, July. O • Stems procumbent, angular, rough with short hooked prickles. Leaves oblongo-lanceolate, solitary, or opposite, or 3 or 4 nearly from the same point of the stem, lower ones petiolate, all rough and slightly hispid. Flowers blue, axillary, solitary. Peduncles short, at first erect, then curved downward. Cal. small, much enlarged in fruit. 9. LYCOPSIS. 1. L. arvensis (small Bug loss), leaves lanceolate rcpando-den- ticulate verv hispid, cal. erect while in flower. Lighlf. p. 135. E. B. I. 938. Hab. Com-fields and hedge-banks, common. Fl. June, July. ©. Whole plant very hispid, hairs or bristles seated on a white callous bulb. Lower leaves lengthened into a petiole ; upper ones sessile semiamplexicaul. Racemes leafy. Flowers bright blue.—Differing from Anchiisa only in the curvature of its tube. 10. ECHIUM. I. E. vulgare (common Piper's Bugloss),stem herbaceous simple hispid with tubercles, leaves linear-lanceolate hispid, flowers in lateral spikes, stamens longer than the cor. Ligfi/J. p. 136. E. B. t. rsi.