Copy 2, Volume 4

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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    originating from former impregnation. The fertile catkins of T’. angustifoliasometimes split longitudinally in growing. See Engl. Bot. 3. T. minor. Dwarf Cat’s-tail or Reed-mace. Leaves linear, convex beneath. Catkins a little distant ; barren one leafy ; fertile short and turgid; often inter- rupted. Anthers nearly solitary. Receptacle naked. T. minor. Fl. Br.960. Engl. Bot. v.21. t.1457. Willd. Sp. Pl. v.4.197. Bauwh. Hist. v.2.540. f. Dalech. Hist.995. f. Lod. 1e81. f: T.minima. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4.197. T. angustifolia 8. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1378. Huds. 400. Tn, 1306 6. Hall. Mist. 0. 2.163: . T. palustris minor. Bauh. Pin.20. Theatr.341. f. Dill. in Rati Syn. 436. T. minima, duplici clava. Moris. v.3. 246. sect. 8. t.13. f. 3. In marshes, but rare. Found by Mr. Dandridge on Hounslow Heath. Dillenius. Perennial. July. Much smaller than either of the preceding. Stem very slender, about a foot, or foot and half, high. Leaves about a line in breadth ; channelled above ; convex beneath ; as tall as the stem; pale and blunt at the point, being rather more tumid in that part than the other species. They are accompanied by nu- merous broad sheathing scales, the innermost of which are half as tallas the stems, and have been taken for leaves. Willdenow not having seen a remark to this effect in Engl. Bot. has been led to make two species out of one. The barren catkin often bears a membranous leaf, or scale, at the base, or at the sum- mit. The anthers are short and thick, mostly solitary on each filament. Recept. apparently naked. Fert. catkin short and thick, becoming tumid, and oval, as it ripens, frequently inter- rupted about the middle; its upper half is sometimes conti- nuous with the barren catkin. Seed with numerous bristles at the base of its stalk. I have seen no English specimen of this very distinct species ; but the older writers could not possibly — mistake it, nor would Linneus, had he ever examined the plants, have confounded it with the last. 426. SPARGANIUM. | Bur-reed. Linn Gen. 480. Juss. 26. Fl. Br.961. Tourn. t. 302. Lam. t. 748. Gerin. t. 19. Nat. Ord. see n. 425. Barr. fl. numerous, aggregate, In one, or more, dense, su- perior balls. Cal. of 3, or more, oblong, obtuse, equal,