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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    many-flowered, erect, generally branched or subdivided. Partial stalks alternate, erect, single-flowered, with 3 unequal, spread- ing, lanceolate bracteas under the flower. Cal. with a very short tube, and a broadish, white, sharply toothed border, irregularly notched between the segments. The varieties of Willdenow seem distinct species; especially T. montanum, Ehrh. Herb. 2, a much larger, more upright, herb, with compound, more aden. panicles ; which is Haller’s n. 1573, and likewise Gerarde’s plant, Ger. Em. 555, taken by Ray for the English species. 127. VINCA. | Periwinkle. Linn. Gen.115. Juss.144. Fl. Br. 269. Lam.t.172. Gerin.t. 117. Pervinca. Tourn. t. 45. Nat. Ord. Contorte. Linn. 30. Apocinee. Juss. 47. See Grammar 108. Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, upright, acute, permanent seoments. Cor. of 1 petal, salver-shaped; tube longer than the calyx, cylindrical in the lower part, dilated and marked with 5 lines above, 5-sided at the mouth; limb horizontal, in 5 deep, oblique, abrupt segments, attached to the summit of the tube. 27/am. from the middle of the tube, short, doubly curved. -Anth. membranous, obtuse, erect, incurved, bearing pollen at each lateral margin. Germens 2, superior, roundish, accompanied by 2 lateral roundish glands. Style 1, common to both germens, cy- lindrical, shorter than the tube. Stzgma 1, capitate, seated on a flat orbicular disk. ollicles 2, cylindrical, acute, erect, bursting along one side. Seeds several, oblong, cy- hae ict furrowed, “without wings. Stems trailing or reclining, perennial, somewhat shrubby. Leaves opposite, ovate, entire ; in our species ever aes een. fl. axillary, handsome, inodorbis: 1..V. menor. Lesser Periwinkle. Stems procumbent. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, smooth-edged. Flowers stalked. Segments of the calyx lanceolate. V.minor. Linn. Sp. Pl. 304. Willd. ¥. 1.1232. Fl. Br. 270. Engl. Bot. v. 13. t.917. Curt. Lond. fasc. 3. t.16. Hook. Scot. 82. Ehrh. Arb. 102. V. pervinca. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 178. f. V. pervinca minor. Raii Syn. 268. Ger. Em. 894. f. Pervinca. Vrag. Hist. 394. f. P.n.572. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 246.
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