Copy 1, Volume 1

The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith.

  • James Edward Smith
Date:
1824-1836
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Credit: The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fil. in pairs, bracteated. Berries single-celled, distinct. Stem erect. | The branches, as well as leaves, of both are opposite; the latter simple, undivided, except casually; in some partly confluent and perfoliate. #7. often fragrant. Fruzt not eatable. With the other Linnean sections, whether entitled to rank as distinct genera or not, we have no concern in an En- glish Flora. I cannot account for the words “ stylzs zn- divisis” in the original specific character of L. cerulea, which apply, as Mr. Brown observes, to the whole genus. The germens of each pair of flowers are indeed perfectly united, or “undivided,” in this species; so that, as Lin- nzeus expresses it in his manuscript, * there are 2 flowers to the same germen ;” and perhaps he wrote originally **baccis coadunato-globosis, stylis divisis.” 1. L. Caprifolium. Pale Perfoliate Honeysuckle. Flowers ringent, whorled, terminal. Leaves deciduous; the uppermost confluent and perfoliate. L. Caprifolium. Linn. Sp. Pl. 246. Willd. v. 1.982. Fl. Br. 260. Engl. Bot. v. 12. t.799. Hook. Scot.80. Jacq. Austr. t. 357. Ehrh. Pl. Exsicc. 141. | Caprifolium itslicum perfoliatum precox. Engl. Gard. Cat. 14. t.9. C. italicum. Dod. Pempt. 411. f. Periclymenum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2.321. f. Camer. Epit. 713. f- P. italicum. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 123. P. perfoliatum. Ger, Em. 891. f. In woods and thickets, but rare. In a wood near Elsfield, Oxfordshire, plentifully. Rev. T. Butt. In Chalk-pit Close, Hinton, Cambridgeshire, certainly wild ; also in another coppice in the same parish. Rev. R. Relhan. In several woods in the south of Scotland, Hooker. Shrub. May, June. ag, Stem woody, round, smooth, somewhat branched, twining from left to right, and climbing, where it meets with support, to a const- derable height. Buds axillary, opposite, solitary, acute, glaucous. Leaves obovate, entire, smooth, glaucous beneath ; the lower ones distinct, and somewhat stalked ; 2 or 3 of the upper pairs united ; the uppermost of all forming a concave cup. 1. in one or more axillary whorls, 6 in each whorl; the uppermost term1- nal, with a central bud; highly fragrant, 2 inches long, yel- lowish, with a blush-coloured tube. Cal. slightly toothed. Berries elliptical, of a tawny orange, each crowned with the al- most entire calyx.
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