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The British flora; in two volumes. Vol. I., comprising the Phaenogamous, or flowering plants, and the ferns / [Sir William Jackson Hooker].

  • William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1842
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Credit: The British flora; in two volumes. Vol. I., comprising the Phaenogamous, or flowering plants, and the ferns / [Sir William Jackson Hooker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hedges; abundant in a calcareous soil. Rare in the north. ZV. May, June. kh. — Petioles acting as tendrils. Flowers greenish-white, fragrant. ’ruit very beautiful, with long white feathery awns. 2. Tuaricrrum Linn. Meadow-Rue. ‘al. of 4—5 sepals. Cor. 0. Pericarps without awns. — Named from Sado, to be green or flourishing. 1. T. alpinum L. (alpine Meadow-Rue); stem simple nearly leafless, raceme simple terminal, flowers drooping. FZ. Bot. t. 262; Ed. Cat. p. 14. Mountains in the north of England, Wales, and in Scotland, frequent. Fi. July. If .— Root-leaves upon long stalks, biternate ; /eaflets roundish, crenate or lobed, dark-green. Stam. 10—12. Germens 2—4. Flowers few. 2. T. minus L. (lesser Meadow-Rue); leaves 3—4-pinnate, leaflets roundish glabrous trifid and toothed glaucous beneath, panicle diffuse its branches alternate or whorled, flowers mostly drooping. Jacq. Austr. t. 419; HE. Bot. t. 11. (excellent); Ed. Cat. p. 14; E. Fl. vy. iii. p. 41.—/. segments of the leaves much acuminated.— y. majus. T. majus Jacg.: EH. Bot. t. 611. Stony pastures, not unfrequent, especially in limestone or chalky countries, Sand hills, on the coast near S. Shields and Yarmouth.—/. Principally in the north of England and in Scotland. FV. June, July. 2. — Stem zigzag, about a foot high, mostly glaucous. Leaflets small. Fruit narrow, ovate, sulcate. There are assuredly no permanent characters by which the 7. majus of Jacq. can be distinguished from the Linnaean T. minus. 3. T. flavum WL. (common Meadow-Rue); stem erect branched furrowed, leaves bipinnate, leaflets broadly obovate or wedge-shaped trifid, panicle compact subcorymbose, flowers erect. £. Bot. t. 367; Ed. Cat. p. 14.—. leaflets broadly ovate almost rotundate. Banks of rivers and ditches, and in moist meadows. Less frequent in Scotland, and principally found in the vale of Clyde. —. Isle of Bute. FV. June, July. Yf.—2—3 ft. high. Fvowers very numerous, yellow. Lobes of the /eaves varying in breadth. In £. the leaflets are much broader than usual. 3. ANEMONE Linn. Anemone. Involucre of 8 divided leaves, more or less remote from the flower. Cal. petaloid, of 5—9 sepals. Cor. 0.— Named from avepoc, the wind; because many of the species grow in very exposed situations. 1. A. Pulsatilla L. ( Pasque-flower Anemoie); leaves as well as the involuere with doubly pinnatifid linear segments, flower inclined, sepals 6, pericarps with long feathery awns. £. Bot. t. 51; Bd. Cat, pe J. Dry chalky pastures, in several parts of England. #7”. Apr. May. 2. — Flowers purple, externally silky, very handsome.
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