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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    heads, are usually present. Germen ratlier conical; transverse projection below tlio middle; lower spaces rather deeply ex- cavated.—Eoundstone sparingly, and South Isles of Ai'an plen- tifidly, Co. Galway. Cornwall. P. VIII. E. I. 2. A. Scorodop'rasum (L.!); st. leafy below, 1. flat, sheaths 2-edged, spath short and broad witM a very short point, umbel globose with many spherical small bulbs, stam. included or equalling tlie perianth, anther-bearing point of ^-pointed fila- ments shorter than the undivided part or the lateral points, bulb with many pui-ple otlsets.—E. Ji. S. 2905. A. arenarknn Sm.—St. 2—.3 feet high. Heads small. Fl. few, purple; seg- ments aU with a minute apiculus, outer with the edges and keel rough. Ilead-bidbs deep piu-ple.—Sandy woods and fields iu the North. P. VI. VII. E. S. 1. tt Stem-leaves hollow. •3. A. vinedle (L.); st. leafy below, I. terete slightly channelled above, spath 1-valved short with a slender long point, umbel globose with many bulbs, stam. exserted, anther-hearin;/ point of 3-pointed Jilaments equcdUng the undivided part and half as long as the lateral points.—E. B. 1974. R. I. t. 404. A. are- nariura Fries.—St. 2 feet high. L. faded at the time of flower- ing. Heads of few pale rose-coloured fl. with green keels and long stalks. Head-bulbs small, oval, acute, greenish.—/3. A. com- paclum (Tbuil.); imibel without fl., head-bulbs with a leaflike point.—Waste gi'ound and dry fields. /3 is the more common state. P. VII. Croic-Garlic. E. S. I. 4. A. sphcernceph'aliim (L.) ; st. leafy below, 1. subcylindrical cliannelled above, spath 2-valved short, vnihcl globose without bulbs, stam. twice as long as the perianth, anther-bearing point of -j-pointed filaments as long as tlie undivided part longer than the lateral points, bidb accompanied bv staflfod ollsots.—E. B. S. 281.3.—St. 1—2 feet high. L. usually faded before tlie time of flowering. Heads of many rose-coloui'ed or purple fl.; keels darker and rough.—St. Vincent's Rocks, Bristol. Sands in Jersey. P. VH. Stam. all simple, not f]-pninled, comierted at the Inise. Spath 2-valved, one valve with a long point. St.-l. narrow. 5. A. olcrureum (L.); st. leafy below, 1. channelled above ribbed beneath, spath willi one of tli(- points very long, uiubel with bulbs, stam. equalling or sliorter tliati the per'iniilh.—E. B. 488.—IJeiglit 1—2 feet. L. (of th<' Pristol plaid ) thick, llesliy, solid, nearly flatbut .slightly and broadly chaimelliMl nliove, with 4 ribs beneath. Segments of pinianl li blunt.—/■). A. complanatum
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