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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
Date:
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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    Cornfields. • A. July, [to Sept. With.] (d. Rundle with 5 fpokes. Relh. Euphorbia fegetalis. Mart. cat. (Mr. Woodward. St.) ** * Rundle with 5 divifions. Euphorbia exigua, aniamygdaloid.es. (St.) portiand EUPHOR'BIA portlan'dica. Rundle with 5 divi- fions ; (above) forked. Fencelets fomewhat heart-fhaped, concave. Leaves flrap-fpear-fhaped, fmooth, expanding. Ray 24. 6. at p. 479. Stems rather fhrubby, ahand’s breadth high, fmooth, cylindrical, red during the winter. Leaves-alternate, nearly fitting, with a fharp point at the end, red underneath at the bale. Little branches from the fide, from the bofom of the leaves; the lower barren, but at length growing out and refembling the ftem. Rundles ter- minating, divifions and fub-divifions expanding. Fence fimilar to the leaves. Fencelets fharp-pointed. Flowers nearly fitting, yellow', the 1 ft and 2d with only chives, and petals very blunt and without horns; the reft with chives and pointals, and'horned. Fra f fmooth, but the corners rough with fharp points. Linn.—In plants that have been injured the Jlems trailing. Rundle with only 3 and 4 divifions; leaves of the fence ftrap-fhaped, larger than the other leaves; and the Jlem-leavesfpear or fpear-egg-fhaped. Central ferrets: Empalement with 5 fides and 5 blunt corners, with 5 flight clefts; .fegtnents more or lefs toothed at the end. Petals hairy on the inner fide. Chives 8 or g. Seed-bud nearly fitting. Lateral florets: Empal. fegtnents 4. Petals 4. Chives 14 or more. Threads furrounded at the top with a ring. In all at the bafe of the flower are feveral flat, (lender, fkinny, woolly fubftances, cloven at the end. With.—Leaves, fences, and fencelets terminated by a fharp point. Leaver wedge-oblong, keeled, fmooth, but not fnining. Fence, leaves inverfely egg-fhaped, or inverfely egg-oblong. Faice- lets rhomb-heart-fhaped. St. Sandy fea fhores. On the neck of land joining Portland to Devonfhire. Near Exmouth, Devonlhire, and near Caernarvon. [Cornwall. Huds. Mr. Watt.] A. July. Aug. fea EUPH OR'BIA Para'Iias. Rundle with generally 5 divifions ; (above) cloven. Fencelets heart-kidney-fhaped. Leaves tiled upwards. Linn.—when cultivated open. St. Jac(j. hort. 188.—Dod. 370. 1, repr. in Ger. cm. 493. i, and cop. in H. ox. x. i. 24.—Park. 184, cop. in Pet. 53. 8.—Ger. 401. 1.—Matth. 1252, not in flower.—Dod. 370. 2, as cultivated in a garden. Petals