Volume 1
A system of vegetables. According to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences ... / Translated from the thirteenth ed. (as published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema vegetabilium of the late Professor Linneus; and from the Supplementum plantarum of the present Professor Linneus ... By a Botanical Society, at Lichfield [i.e. E. Darwin, etc].
- Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. Systema vegetabilium. English
- Date:
- 1783
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A system of vegetables. According to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences ... / Translated from the thirteenth ed. (as published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema vegetabilium of the late Professor Linneus; and from the Supplementum plantarum of the present Professor Linneus ... By a Botanical Society, at Lichfield [i.e. E. Darwin, etc]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![154 Conjoin’d, (connata) the pairs of oppofite leaves conjoin’d at their bafe. 155 Sheathing, (vaginans) the bafe forming a tube cloathing the ftem. Structure: Figure. 156 Roundifh, (fubrotundum) approaching to an orbicular (157) figure. 157 Orbicular, (orbiculatum) a furrounding circle [the longitudinal diameter equal to the tranfverfe one.] 158 Egg’d, (ovatum) the longitudinal diameter of which is greater than the tranfverfe one, circumfcribed at the bafe by a fegment of a circle, the top being narrower. 159 Oval, (ovale.) from a circle becoming oblong, each extremity being rounded and equal. 160 Oblong, (oblongum) the longitudinal diameter a few times greater than the tranfverfe one. 161 Parabolic, (parabolicum) round towards the top gradually narrower. 162 Wedge-form, (cuneiforme) gradually narrowed towards the bafe. 163 Spatuled, (fpatulatum) roundifh (156) with a narrower linear (l6y) bafe. 164 Rounded, (rotundatum) deprived of angles. 165 Lanced, (laneeolatum) oblong taper’d, at both ends. 166 Elliptic, (ellipticum) lanced with the breadth of an egg’d leaf, 167 Linear, (linearis) everywhere of an equal breadth. 168 Awny, (acerofum) linear, (167) permanent, [272). Angles. 169 Intire, (integrum) undivided without any hollow. 170 Triangular, &c. (Triangulare, &c.) according to the number of angles. 171 Delta-like, (deltoideum) rhomb-form (172) of four angles, of which the collateral ones are lefs remote from the bafe than the others. 172 Rhombic, (rhombeum) the form of a rhombus. 173 Trapeze-form, (trapez forme) the form of a trapezium. Hollows. 174 Hearted, (cordatum) fomewhat egg’d, hollow’d at the bafe without pofterior angles. 175 Kidney-form, (reniforme) roundifh, hollow’d at the bafe without pofterior angles. 176 Moon’d, (lunatum) roundifh, hollow’d at the bafe, with pofterior acute angles. 177 Arrow’d](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28777372_0001_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


