Volume 3

Flora Londinensis. Or Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth, and times of flowering; their several names according to Linnæus and other authors: with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English. To which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts / By William Curtis.

William Curtis

Date:: [etc.] 1777

Credit: Flora Londinensis. Or Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth, and times of flowering; their several names according to Linnæus and other authors: with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English. To which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts / By William Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Bromus MOLLIS. sorr BRoME Grass BROMUS LinaiGen. Pl. ‘Trranpria DIGyYNIA. Raii Syn. Gen. 27. HERBZ GRAMINIFOLIZ FLORE IMPERFECTO CuLMIFERA. BROMUS mollis panicula ereCtiufcula, fpiculis ovatis pubefcentibus, ariftis re&s, foliis molliffime Villog Linnei Syft. Vegetab. p. 102. Sp. Pl. p. 112. BROMUS hirfutus, locuftis feptifloris, ovato conicis. Haller Diff. p. 1504. BROMUS Polymorphus. Scopoli Fl. Carniol. 5. 8o. | FESTUCA avenacea hirfuta, paniculis minus fparfis. Rai Sym. p. 413 — Hudfon FI. Angl. 5. 39. 1. Secalinus. Schreber. Gram, pl. 6. fig. 1. RADIX biennis * ROOT biennial * Y 4 CULMUS pedalis ad tripedalem, ere&us; GENICULI i STALK from one to three feet high, upright ; 4 tumidi, cylindracei. i joints {welled and cylindrical. ; LEAVES together with their snEATHS covered wit FOLIA cum vaainis pilis mollibus veftita. foft hairs. Y 4 i M PANICULA erectiufcula, nunc coarctata nunc diffufa. / Y 4 ¥ 4 PANICLE nearly upright, fometimes clofe, fometim Ípreading. SPICUL-E oval and pommted, turgid, flattith, general villous, containing eight flowers, whitith abo the edges of the Glumes. fiz. 1. SPICUL/E. ovato-acuta, turgide, fubcompreffe, ple- rumque villofz, octoflorz, circa oras glumarum albidae. fm. 1. Y 2 CALYX: Gruwa bivalvis, valvulisinzequalibus, muti- CALYX: a Giume of two valves, the valves unequ Cis. fg; d. : without any beard, or arifta, fig. 2. COROLLA: Gtuma bivalvis, valvulA exteriore lata, 4 COROLLA: a GLume of two valves, the] outerm concava, ftriata, ariftata, fig. 4. interiore plani- } valve broad, hollow, ftriated, and bearded, f ufcula, ciliata, lanceolata. fig. 3. ARISTA val- I 45 the innermoft flattifh, ci/ated or hairy at 1 vulis paulo longior, fubreéta, Ae. 4. Y edges and pointed, fig. 3; the Arista a litt 4 longer than the valves and nearly {traigh Jig. 4. N ECTARIUM: Glumula bipartita, ad bafin petali in- 1 NECTARIUM: a fmall kind of Glume deeply divide terloris, fig. 5, parum auct: I placed at the bafe of the inner petal, Jg. s. f little magnified. STAMINA: FILAMENTA tria capillaria, ANTHERE f STAMINA: three FILAMENTS very fmall, ANTHER primum flave, oblonga, dein fufcae et bifurca- ¥ firft yellow and oblong, laftly brown and fork te. fig. 7. 6. aud: | B at each end, fig. 7. 6. magnified. \ t PISTILLUM: GznMEN ovatum, apice fubemarginatum, $ PISTILLUM: GERMEN oval, with a flight depreffio Jig. 8. SrYL1 duo, ad bafin ufque plumofi, ex f at top, fig. 8. two STYLEs feathery quite dow uno latere germinis enati. Jig. 9. to the bottom, proceeding from one fide of tl Germen, fig. 9: SEMEN oblongum, concavum, calyci adnatum fig. 10 SEED oblong, concave, adhering tothe Calyx fir; 1 denudatum fg. 11. t 4 »- : the Calyx taken off, fig: 11. OUR Farmers in general are not very warm in their recommendations of this Grafs, neverthelefs it abounds 1 molt of our beft meadows ; it {prings up early, and ripens its feed generally about the time of Hay-making. Th {eed is large, and each panicle contains nearly as much as that of a common Oat, indeed it feems to have more pr tenfions to the the name of Corn than of Grafs. Although Cattle may not be fo fond of the leaves, and panicle of this Grafs while green as of fome others, yet ma it not (when cut down as it ufually is when the feed is nearly ripe) contribute to render the hay more nutritive? an hence may it not be a proper Grafs to fow with others.? It feems at leaft to deferve the attention of the Farmer. There is perhaps no clafs of plants more affected by difference of foil and fituation than the Grafles, hence the fam plant has often been divided into feveral fpecies; and to fuch Varieties is the prefent Plant incident, as to occafio SCOPOLI to give it the name of Polymorphus. When it grows ona Wall, or dry Bank, the Spicule are generally more upright, and clofer together ; when th foil is rich and moift, the Spiculz fpread out, and the whole plant becomes much larger; in Meadows the Spicul: frequently lofe their villous appearance and become perfe&ly ímooth. To determine this fpecies then with mot certainty, recourfe muft be had to the parts of fructification. | * According to Linnzus,$

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