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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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    STELLA'RTA nem'orum. Leaves heart-fliaped, on hroad-leaued leaf-flalks. Panicle with branching f'ruit-ftalks.— Ft. dan. ox. v. 23.2, cop. in Park. 762. i. So nearly allied to Cerajlium aqual. as with diflBculty to be diftin- guilhed from it. ' Sim a foot high. Leaves, under lurface much paler than in 'thofe of Cerajl. aqmlicum, the greater part of them on leaf-ftalks, but few fitting, and thofe fmaller only near the panicle. Leaf-Jialks hairy, efpecially on the upper furface. Panicle terminat- ing, diftin<5l, fmooth. after flowering pendant. £ro/)<z/. fmooth. Linn.—Allied to, but inoft tmly diftiiiA from aqualicum. Stem low, never climbing. Schreb.—Stem once or twice forked, afterwards branched; fmooth below, hairy above. Lein;e5oppofite, below the divifions of the ftem, on leaf- ftalks, at and above them fitting. Fmit-Jlalks long, branched, haiiy, each with a pair of leaves limilar to the ftem-leaves. Differs from Ceraftim aquaticum in hzving the upper part only hairy, and not ' clammy; the petals full twice as long as the empalement; the feg- ments of the empalement more pointed, the Jruit-Jlalks very flender, Pqfts only 3, and feed-vejjel upright. Mr. W0.0 dw .—Lower-leaves heart-egg-lhaped,' the middlemoft egg-fliaped. Fruit-Jlalks folitary. Empalement even, not ribbed. In habit it refembles Alfine media (decaftemon.) St. ' Woods, moift hedges^, and banks of rivers, in the northern counties. [By Cafterton Mill, near Kirkby Lonfdale, Weftmorel, Dr. J. E. Smith.—Near Kendal, fhewn me by Mr. Gough, fon of.a: manufacturer of that place, a blind botanijl, who had loft his fight early in his infancy, but who, by means of touch, had learnt to diftinguifh plants with wonderful accuracy. The plants he was familiar with he recognized by what may be called an in- tuitive touch, by fimply drawing them through his hand; with others he took more time, examining the particular parts between his fingers. St.] STELLA'RIA Holo'jlea. Leaves fpear-fhaped, greater finely ferrated. Petals cloven. Linn.—Leaves fringed. Hall. St.—With Jhort prickles, not fnely ferrated. St. Curt. ii. 14.—Wale.—Mill. ill.—Fuchf. 136, cop. in J, B. iii. ' 361. 2.—Trag. 329.—Dod. 563, repr. in Lob. obf. 26. 2, Ger. em. /LJ, and cop. in Park. 1325.—Pet. 58. i.—Ger, 43. I.—(FI. dan. 698, has fringed leaves indeed, but the petals are divided nearly to the baje, the lobes pointed, and has more of the habit of S.graminea than cf S.Holofea.J Stem a foot high and upwards, upright, forked, knotty, the lower joints fhorter, angular, roughilh. Leaves oppoG.tc, fitting, G g 4 . keeled,