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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Tv.lll. ANTHERICEJE. Fl. jointed to their stalks. Leaves of perianth ylighlly connected below. Cells of caps, few- seeded. Seeds various in form.—Not bulbous. 9. SiMETHis. Penanth-I. G, spreading, deciduous. Stana. on the base of the peiianth. Filaments bearded. Ardli. attached hy their backs. Caps. 3-ce.led, 6-£eeded. Tr. IV. IIEMEROCALLIDE^'.. Leaves of the perianth com- bined below. Cells of the caps, few-seeded. Seeds various in form ; testa (in our plants] black.—Jjulbous. 10. Endymion. Perianth tubidar-bellshaped, ofGconnivent leaves m ith reflexed ))oitts combined below. Stam. inserted telow the middle cf the perianth; filaments decurrent. IL MuscABi. Perianth globose or subcylindrical, narrowed at the mouth, G-toothed. Stam. inserted at about the mid- dle of the tube; filaments not decurrent. Tribe I. TuUpece. 1. Ttjli'pa Linn. Tulip. 1. T. syhes'tris (L.) ; st. 1-flowered glabrous, fl. atfirst droop- ing, tip of segm ents of peiianth and base of the stame ns hairv. —E. B. G3. St. 29.11. R. x. 446.—Fl. yellow, rarely produced in a wild state.—Chalk-pits in the Eastern Counties. Mea- dows near Nottingham and in Yorkshire. P. IV. V. E. 2. Fkitilla'ria Linn. Fritillary. 1. F. MelecU/ris (L.); st. 1-flowered leafy,! all alternate linear-lanceolate.—B. 622. St. 18. 4. R. x. 442.—About a foot high. Fl. dull red with many dark spots, rarely white.— Meadows and pastures in the East and South. P. V. E. 3. Lil'ium Linn. Lily. [1. L. MartdijoniTu.) ; 1. whciled elliptic-lanceolate,st. downy roughish, fi nodding, peiianth reflexed.—E. B. S. 2799. R. x. 451.—Height 1—13 foot. Fi. violet-flesh-colcuied with dark- purple spots.—Copses. P. VI. VII. Tur/c's-cap Lily.'] E. [i. pyrendicum (Gouan) ; ]. scattered linear-lanceolate, fl. nodding, perianth reflexed.—Sy. E. B. 1517.—About 1 ft. high. Fl. yellow with black dots below.—Between South Molton and Molloud, Devon.] E.
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