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A botanical arrangement of British plants; including the uses of each species, in medicine, diet, rural economy and the arts, with an easy introduction to the study of botany ... / By William Withering. Including a new set of references to figures. By Jonathan Stokes.

  • William Withering
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1787-1792
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Credit: A botanical arrangement of British plants; including the uses of each species, in medicine, diet, rural economy and the arts, with an easy introduction to the study of botany ... / By William Withering. Including a new set of references to figures. By Jonathan Stokes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bafe Rocket.—Cornfields, meadows, andpaftures, efpecially in a calcareous foil, as chalk, &c. fometimes on walls. [Bungay, Suffolk, frequent. Mr. Woornv.—Surry. St.] A. June.—Aug. @. Bocc. pi. var. 41. 3. at p. 76.—Pink. 55. 4, Barren clofes about Roe-hill and Northfleet. 665. EUPHOR'BIA. Spurge. • Empal. Cup 1 leaf; permanent; fomewhat coloured; dihended; mouth with 4 (and in a few fpecies with 5) teeth. Bloss. Petals 4, (in a few fpecies 5;) turban-fhaped; bellying; thick; lopped; irregularly fituated; al- ternating with the teeth of the cup, and fixed by their claws to its edge; permanent. Chives. Threads many; (12 or more;) thread-fhaped; jointed ; handing on the receptacle; longer than the bloffom; appearing at different times. Tips double ; roundifh. Point. Seed-bud roundifh; 3-cornered, handing on a little fruit-halk. Shafts 3; cloven. Summits blunt. S. Vess. Capfulc roundifh; confihing of 3 berries, and 3 cells; opening with a fpring. Seeds folitary; roundifh. Ess. Char. Bloffom of 4 or 5 petals; fixed to the empal. Empalement cj t leaf; diflended. Capfule 3-berried. Obs. The capfule is either fmopth, hairy, or warty. In fome fpecies the iff flowers have chives, but no pointals. ' t * Forked. (Rundie cloven, or none.) purple EUPHOR'BIA Pe'plis. Forked. Leaves very entire, half-heart-fhaped. Flowers folitary, from the bofom of the leaves. Stems trailing.— Cluf. ii. 187. 2, repr. in Lob. obf. 197. 3, Ger. em. 503. 20, and cop. inH.ox. x. 2. 18, and Pet. 33. 12.—Matth. 1260.—Ger. 406. 16.—Park. 194. 7. Stem and leaves generally red. Root long, (lender, fibrous. Stem forked immediately from the root. Branches trailing, forked, of irregular lengths, frequently purple. Flowers on fruit-ftalks. Capfules fmooth, tipped with purple. Mr. Woodward. Sandy fea fhores. Between Penfans and Marketjeu, Cornwall and Exmouth, Devonfhirc. A. July. Aug. * * Bundle