Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes.
- Robert Darwin
- Date:
- 1787
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![no. genera. growth. ‘1° native of 0 species. J species in Bn ’ 3 Disa, h 4 4 Epidendruip,t s 31 5 Forstera, h 1 6 Gunnera, vS 1 7 Limodorum, h 2 8 Ophrys. ]i 27 9 Orchis,* * h 45 10 Satyrium, h *15 it Serapias, h 3 Cape. E. and W. Indies. New Zealand. Cape. Jamaica. Alps. Brit. 13 Italy. Asia. Brit. 11 Cape. Brit. 4 Cape. Brit. 3 Order II. TRIANDRIA, (Three males.) One-female. 12 Ferraria,J h ’-t* 13 Salacia, s 14 Sisyrinchium, h 15 Stilago, S 2 Cape. 1 China. 2 Bermuda. I India. Order III. TETR A NDRI A. (Four males.) ■ One-female. 16 Nepenthes, h 1 Ceylon. Order + The venelloes, which is an ingredient in chocolate, is the pod of the epidendrum vanilla. Most of the species are parasitical. * Salep is the root of a species of orchis. The flowers of the different species of orchis and ophrys are very various ; oft resembling different kinds of animals and inse£ls, which have given names to many of the species. + Frrraria only vegetates every second or third year, though the root remains firm in the ground.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28764754_0145.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
