Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [T. I. p. 444] it stood like the thickest rye-field, but was not taller than about 1 foot high. It seemed as if this grass would thrive best on the south side of the wall. In many places the sides of the walls were covered over either with Quickroot, 105 [Triticum repens] or Renlosta (85) or Sccindix, 241, seminibus hispidis [5. Anthriscus, now Anthriscus Vulgaris] Beaked Parsley, each of which in its place and byitself made the thickest growth that can be, and certainly seemed to be very profitable and serviceable for sowing on the sides of earth-walls, to fasten the loose mould by. It seemed as if the Quickroot would thrive better on the north side of the walls. These walls con- sisted of the brick-colored clay found everywhere around London, which has frequently been mentioned before. The yrd of June, 1748. In the afternoon I was at the house of Dr. Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary of the Royal Society in London, where I then made the acquaintance of Mr. Baker, who had written the beautiful book on Polyps, in which he re- counts the many experiments he had made with them. [Omit a silly note on a child’s skull found in a chalkpit.] [T. I. p. 445.] Luteola, 439. [Reseda Luteola, L.] Dyers Weed, Weld, grew everywhere outside London on the earth-walls. That it can be contented with the driest eartli I noticed from this, that it grew in fissures in the tops of the walls in the greatest heat of the sun where all other plants, even Poa Murorum [P. Compressa, L.] were entirely withered up and killed by the great heat; but this stood there green and in flower, more than 18 inches high. The cattle always left it uneaten. The bth June, 1748. List of births and deaths, &c., in several places. In a printed description of London, in Folio, there is a list
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