Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.

  • Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lobed equalling the perianth, pedicel long. Penrice Castle, Glam.—iV. incompdrah'His (Curt.) Sy. E. B. 1-502 ; croNvn erect 5 as long as perianth, otherwise like Sp. 3. In several places in the South.—These are not native plants.] 2. Letjco'jum: Linn. Snowflake. fl. L. cBstimmi (L.) ; spath manv-flowered, style thickened upwards.—i;. B. 621. R. ix. 3G2';—Bulbous. Height 2—2^ feet. Fl. asstival, white, drooping; tips greenish. L. broadly linear, keeled, hibernal. Scape 2-edged.—Wet meadows. P. V. E. t2. L. ver'num (L.); spath 1-flowered, style thickened up- wards.—/S/. K B. 1506. J. of B. iv. t. 49.—Bulbous. Height 8—10 inches. L. and white di-ooping flowers vernal.—Near Bridport and Bicester. P. II.—IV. E. 3. Galan'thus Linn. Snowdrop. 1. G. nivalis (L.).—i?. B. 19. R. ix. 363.—Bulbous. Fl. soli- tary, white, drooping; inner segments greenish. L. 2, keeled, broadly linear, glaucous.—Thickets in the West. P. II. HI. E. Order LXXXVI. ALISMACE^. Perianth free, of 6 leaves; 3 inner or all coloured. Stam. 6. Ovaries 3—6 or many, always distinct or ultimately separable; carp, opening at the suture or not at all; seeds 1 or many. Embryo straight or curved; albumen 0.—No raphides. Suborder I. ALISMOIDE^. Three inner perianth-segm. petal-like. Seeds 1—2 in each cell, erect or ascending, on the suture. Embryo cylindrical, doubled upon itself; radicle next the bile. 1. Alisma. Fl. perfect. Stam. 6. Carp, many, forming a ring or head, small, 1-seeded, not bursting.—L. ovate or narrow. 2. AcTiNOC.VRPUS. Fl. perfect. Stam. 6. Carp.Q—8, rather large, 2-seeded, combmed at tlie base and spreading in a radiant manner. L. cordate-oblong. 3. Saoittaiiia. Fl. monoecious. Male fl. with many sta-
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