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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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    Sandy places on the fea coaft. [Southwold, SufFolIc. Mr. Crowe.—Wells, Norfolk. Mi'. Woodward.—Coaft of Wales. Ivir. Saw YER,—Portreath, near Hayle, Cornwall. Mr. Watt.] P. June. July. /S. Huds. Leaves broader. Rand. * * * Floiiwrs growing from the forks of the fern. S I L E'N E comi'dea. Empaleraents of the fruit glo- bular taper-pointed, with 30 Icores. Leaves fmooth. Pe- tals entire. Linn. Huds. St. Cluf i. 288. 2, repr. in Lob. obf. 183. 2, ic. i. 339. 2, andGer. em. 470. 7, and cop. in J. B. iii. 349. 4, Park. 631. 4, and H. o.r. V. 21. 33. Linn. St.*—{Lob. ic. i. 338. 2, repr. in Ger. em. 470. 6, and cop. in Park. 633. 11, and abridged in J. B. iii. 350. I, with the addition of a branch in fruit, is the figure , rferred to by Dill, in R. Jyn. under Lychn. fylv. angujlifol. Gfc. C. B. referred- by Hudfon to S. conoidea, but by Linnms to S. conica.J Stem befet with clammy hairs. Leaves fpear-fhaped, fmooth. Empal. ribs rough with hair. Capjules globular, with a cylindrical beak. Petals fmall, undivided, entire. Honey-cups with 3 clefts, pointed, and with a tooth befides on each fide at the bafe of the bloflbm. Linn.—Leaves, edges and mid-rib underneath doivny, and fometimes alfo the tvhole of the leaf. Stem downy below, clammy above, being befet with hairs terminated by globular heads. Empa/eiTzents rounded at the bafe, clammy, befet with fhort clofe hairs, interfperfed with longer ones. In the S. conica the empalement is lopped at the bafe, and the whole plant is befet with a fhort thick down, without any longer hairs intermixed, and not clammy. St. . . Sandy corn fields. A little to the north of Sandown Caflie, plentifully. Mr. J. Sherard and Mr. Rand. R. Jyn. ed. iii. A. June. July. * Thefe are the figures which Linnaeus refers to his S. conoidta, and with thefe, as well as with the defcription of S. conoidea, my fpecimens from the London Botanic Garden accord. Mr, Hudfon, indeed, gives to the S.conoidca, the fynonyms which Linnaeus has referred to the S. conica, but he mentions no place of growth, except on the authority of R. fyn.- It is polTible that the S, conica and conoidea may be both native fpecics. In Dr. Withering’s herbarium I have found a fpecimen of 5. conica, which he believes to have been of native growth, and which exaftly correfponds with the figure of it in Jacq, aujlr. iii. 353. Sx.