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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    (Bor.); stam. shortei' than the perianth, I. of equal thickness throughout curved upwards at the sides so as to appear chan- nelled with many ribs on each side. A. carinatuin Sm., E. B. 1668.—Borders of fields, rare. /3. Mountains in the North. P. VII. vni. E. s. 6. A. carindtMin (L.); st. leafy helow, 1. nearly flat, umhel nearly without bulbs, stam. much exceedintj perianth.—Height 1—2 feet. L. erect, slightly channelled below, flat in the upper art, slightty furrowed (not keeled) beneath. Perianth-segm. lunt, rose-coloured.—Newark. Seguden, Carse of Gowrie. By Esk above Musselburgh, abundant. P. VIII. E. S. *** Stam. all simple and distinct. Spath 2-valved, short. Leaves hollow. 7. A. Schoinop'rasum (L.); st. leafless or with one leaf, 1. terete or slightly flattened above subulate, spath ovate pointed about equalling the flowers, umbel many-flowered globose without bulbs, stam. about haK the length of the lanceolate segments of the peiianth.—E. B. 2441.—St. about 6 in. high. L.' straight, mostly with smooth ribs. Pet. lanceolate. Barren bulbs with leaves. Fl. pink. Forming dense tufts.—jS. A. sibiricmn (L.); 1. curved and bent downwards with crenulate ribs, pet. lanceolate-attenuate, barren liulbs single-leaved, style longer than the young germen. E. B. S. 2934. Height 6 in. to 2 feet. Heads large. Possibly a distinct species.^—Meadows and pas- tures in mountainous situations. /3. Rocks and cliff's near the sea. Tintagel and Rill Head, also between Kynance Cove and Mullion, Cornwall. P. VI. VII. Chives. E. S. **** Stam. all simjile. Leaves flat, all radical. t8. A. triquetrum (L.); st. triquetrous, /. acutely folded and keeled, spath 2-valved about equalling the erect bulbless lax umb':l, stam. half as long as the oblong segments of the peri- anth.—B. S. 2963. R. X. 503.—Bulb ovate. L. angularly folded, acute. Segments of perianth white with a slender green midrib.—Hedges in Guernsey. Helston, Corn. P. V. VI. E. 9. A. ursinum (L.); st. naked triangular, I. stalked ovate-lun- ceolat.c^ spath 2-valved ovate, umbel level-topped lax bulbless.— E. B. 122.—Bulb slender, oblong. L. few, broad, smooth, bright green. Stalk one, as tall as or taller than the leaves. Fl. white. Smelling stronglv of garlic when bruised.—Damp woods and hedges. P. V. VI. Ramsons. E. S. I. [A. amhi(j'uum (Sm.); E. B. S. 2803.—Rochester. Eye Castle Hill, Sufi; Not a native; nor is A. paradoxum (Don) at Binnig Craig, Linlithgow.]
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