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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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    S E' D U M album. Leaves oblong, blunt, nearly whitefiowered roXind, fitting, expanding. Tuft branching.— Curl. i. II.—FI. dan. 66.—-Blackw, 428.—Ger. 413. 2.—Cluf. it. 59. I, repr.in Dod. 129. 2, Lob. obj. 205. 2, Ger. em. 512. 2, and cop. in Park. 734. i, and H. ox. xii. 7. 23.—Fuchf. 35> repr.inTrag. andj. B. iii. 690, —Wale.—Lonic. i. 60. I.—(Malth. 1118, is S. min. leretlf. alt. C. B.J ' The whole plant fometimes purple, except the flowers, which are white. Lins.—^.Sfc7n-kaue5 (when drying) grooved on the up- per fide. Empal. Jegments blunt, dotted with purple. Honey-cups yellow. Tips chefnut-coloured. Dujl yellow. Seed-buds white, pointed. With. St. Sedum minus teret'fol. alb. R. fyn. p. 271.—Tragus Herba, Galli- narite baccoe. Trag.i.p. 60. A. (St.) Walls and roofs. [Walls at Peterborough. Mr. Woodward. —Rocks above Great Malvern. Nash.] P. June. July. Goats eat it. Sheep refufe it. SE'DUM a'cre.^ Leaves nearly egg-fhaped, growing P^epper to and fitting, bellying, nearly upright, alternate. Tuft with 3 divifions.— - . Curt. i. ^..—Sheldr. 42.—Fuchf. 36, cop. in J. B. iii. 694. 2.— Trag.^yg.—Blackw. 2^2.—Ger. 415.—Cluf. ii. 61. 1, repr. ' . in Ger. em. 517. 2, cop. in Park. 735. 7, H. ox. xii. 6. rote; 3. ' , 12, and improved in Pet. 42. 9.—Dod. 129.3, obf. 205. 4, cop. in Park. 735. 8.—Matth. 1119.—Lonic. i. 59. 2. Flowers terminating. Blojfoms yellow. Stone Crop. Wall Pepper. Walls, roofs, rocks, and dry paftures. P. June. July. This plant continues to grow when hung up by the root, which is a proof that it receives its nouriftiment principally from the air, as is the cafe ivith moll of the fucculent plants. It is very acrid. Applied externally it blifters. Taken inwardly it excites vomiting. In fcorbutic cafes, and quartan ages, it is an excellent medicine under proper management. ■ ' Goats eat it. Cows, Horfes, Sheep, and Swine refufe it. p. Huds. Sedum fexangulare, which fee. SE'DUM fexangula're. Leaves fomewhat egg-fhaped, injpid growing to and fitting, bellying, nearly upright, tiled in 6 rows.— Curt. iv. 37. H h 2 Foot