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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    121. EUONYMUS. Spindle-tree. Linn. Gen. 107. Juss. 377. Fl. Br.262. Tourn. t.388. Lam. t.131. Gertn. t. 118. . Nat. Ord. see 7. 120. Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, flat, in 5 deep, rounded, concave, permanent segments. Pet. 5, oblong, flat, .spreading, longer than the calyx. Flam. awl-shaped, straight, distant, attached to the germen as well as to the recep- tacle. Anth. 2-lobed. Germ. superior, depressed, pointed. Style short, simple. Stzgma obtuse. Caps. succulent, co- loured, with 5 sides, 5 prominent angles, 5 cells, and 5 coriaceous valves having central partitions. Seeds solitary, ovate; each enveloped in asucculent, folded, coloured tunic. Shrubs with opposite branches, hard wood, and opposite, stalk- ed, simple, smooth, deciduous leaves. Fl. on forked axillary stalks; often 4-cleft. £7/am. in some instances very short. 1. E. europeus. Common Spindle-tree, or Prickwood. Flowers mostly four-cleft. Petals acute. Branches smooth and even. E. europeus. Linn. Sp. Pl. 286. Willd. v. 1.1130. Fl. Br. 262. Engl. Bot. v. 6. t.362. Hook. Scot.81. Bull. Fr. t. 135. E. vulgaris. Raii Syn. 468. Scop. Carn..v. 1.167. Ehrh. Arb. 3. Esa. 829. Hatt, Hise-e. 12370. Euonymus. Matth. Valgr.v.1.173. f. Camer. Epit. 102. f. Dod. Pempt. 783. f. KE. Theophrasti. Ger. Em. 1468. f. Carpinus Theophrasti. Trag. Hist. 982. t. 983. In hedges and thickets. Shrub, or small tree. May. Fetid in every part when bruised, and esteemed poisonous, whence arose, by antiphrasis, the generic name, signifying in Greek of good repute. Branches angular when young ; afterwards round, with a green, smooth, not warty, bark. Leaves ovate, pointed, finely serrated, about 2 inches long. Stipulas awl-shaped, very small, soon falling off. Fl. fetid, small, greenish white ; the first only 5-cleft. Caps. ofa fine rose-colour, occasionally white. Tunics of the seeds always orange-coloured, elegantly contrast- ing with the red, or white, valves. The very hard fine-grained wood is preferred for spindles, and for skewers. 122. RIBES. Currant and Gooseberry. Linn. Gen. 111. Juss.310. Fl. Br. 263. Lam. t. 146. Grossularia, Vourn. t.409. Gaertn, t, 28.
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