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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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    BlofToms white. ' • H'alc. fertile plant.—Mattk. 997, cop. in J. B. iii. 342, and Pet. 57. 5.—FI. dan. 792, fertile and barren plants, no hairinefsj— H. ox. V. 21. 21.—rPiU‘ fiort. 41. i, has the air of a diJlinSl fpecies, though it is pojjibly the fertile plant. J Capfule of I cell. Linn. Leers. Curt.—Flowers frequently with chives and pointals within the fame empalement. With. St.—But early in the fummer and in the autumn they are gene- rally on diftindl plants. Stems neafly cylindrical, hollow, co- loured, befet with fine hairs. Leaves fpear-fhaped, fitting, oppo- fite, foft to the toush like velvet. Barren Plant; Empalement hairy, tinged on one fide with red. Petals, border divided down to the claws; claws fringed at the top with 4 little fcales which nearly clofe the mouth of the blofibra. Threads fixed to the recep- tacle, unequal, hairy. Tips terminating, thofe on the longer threads difcharging their dull firft. Pointals^ the rudiments of ge- nerally I or 2 in the centre of the receptacle. Fertile Plant; Empalement more diftended, with 5 prominent ribs, and 5 interme- diate fmaller ones, ribs coloured. Petals, border cloven but half way down to the claws. Receptacle of the feeds large. With. Lychnis alba. Curt. cat. n. 321. Wild White Campion. Paftures, hedges, [and fallow fields fometimesfo plentifully as to make them appear at a diftance quite white, where the red is never found. St.] P. June.—Aug. [May. Sept. St.] , 3. Bloflbms flefti-coloured. Flowers with chives and pointals within the fame empalement. Huds. Mr. Woodw,. but fome- timeson diftinA plants. Mr. Woodward. ' Aphis Lychnidis lives upon it. Linn. A Horfe eat it. St. • ‘ • white flelh-coloured 637. CERAS'-