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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    f>-cleft, pale reddish, its upper side clothed with long, white, fila- mentous appendages.—Leaves, used as Tea, considered by the Highlanders to strengthen weak stomachs, Dr. Stuart. 13. LYSIMACHIA. * Peduncles many-flowered. 1. L. vulgaris (yelloiu Loosestrife), leaves ovato-lanceolate op- posite ter- or quaternate, panicle terminal. Lightf. p. 138. E. B. t. 761. Hab. Wet shady places, and the sides of rivers. Isle of Mull, Light/. Banks of Clyde at Bowling bay \ Kenmuir banks, Glasg., Hopk. Castle Loch, at Lochmaben, Dumfries-shire; in a field by the road- side opposite the hill of Dumbuck, Dumbartonshire, Maugh. Isle in the Loch of Monteith, Rev. Dr. Graham. Daldowie, Dr.Brown. Fl. July. %. Erect, two to three feet high. Leaves nearly sessile, glabrous or downy beneath. Panicle large, leafy, much branched. Corollas large. 2. L. thyrsiflora (tufted Loosestrife),leaves opposite lanceolate, racemes pedunculated lateral. E. B. t. 176. Hab. Watery places, rare. Margin of a drain in a marsh beyond Possil, south side of the canal, near the west end, Hopk. Edge of a lake to the N. of Glasgow, Fl. Brit.; where Mr. Hopkirk has sought for it in vain. Margins of Rescabie and Balgawen Lakes, Angus-shire, frequent; and Duddingston Loch, Edinb., D. Don. Fl. July. If.. Stems one to two feet high. Floioers numerous, small, crowded in axillary, pedunculated racemes. Cor. deeply cleft into very nar- row segments, yellow, and as well as the cul. spotted with orange. ** Peduncles I-flowered. 3. L. Nenwrum (yellow Pimpernel, or PVood-Looseslrfe),]eR\-es ovate acute, stem creeping, peduncles solitary, calycine seg- ments linear-subulate, stamens smooth. Lightf. p. 13S. E. B. t. 527. Hab. Woods and shadv places, frequent. Fl. summer months. 1/. 4. L. Nummularia (Moneyivarl), leaves subcordate obtuse, stem procumbent, peduncles solitary, calycine segments ovate acute, stamens glandular. Lightf. p. 138. E. B. t. 52S. Hab. Shady places and pastures. Banks of the Clyde at Kenmuir and Bothwell, Hopk. Shady banks of the Esk, Angus-shire, abundant, D.Don. Daldowie, Dr. Broun. 14. ANAGALLIS. 1. A. arvensis (scarlet Pimpernel), leaves ovate sessile dotted beneath, margin of the cor. broadly and very obtusely crcnate piloso-glandulose. Lightf. p. 139. E. B. t. 529. Hab. Corn-fields, abundant. 77. June, July. ©. Flowers scarlet. 2, A. cceruhn (Jbhte Pimpernel), leaves ovate sessile dotted be-