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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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    corn alpine mountain CERAS'TIUM arven'fe. Leaves flrap-fpear-fliaped, blunt, finooth. Bloffoms larger than the empalement. Linn.—Leaves ahmys a little hairy. Hall. Mr. Woodw. St.—Hardly to be called blunt. St. Vain. 30. 4, and alfo 5, which is not C. repens, as is .evident from the capfule, d.—Ger. 477- 11.—FI. dan. 626,—jf. B, lii. 360. 1.—Ger. em. 595. 15, cop. in Park. 1339. 7. , Leaves pointed, covered with a fhort .thick down. Vaill.—Pe- tals twice as long as the'empalement. Hall. Caryophyllus holqfleus arvenfis. Ger. em. 595. (With.) Corn fields, gravelly meadows and paftures, at the foot of walls, dry banks and heaths, in Cambridgefhire. Dupper’s Hill, near Croydon. [About Bury, frequent, amongft corn. Mr. Woodw. —Near Norwich. Mr. Crowe.] P. May. CERAS'TIUM alpi'num. Leaves egg-fpear-fliaped. Stem divided. Capfules oblong. Linn.—bowed. Hall.* FI. dan. 6.—Kay 15. 2. at p. 348. Leaves fometimes fmooth, and fometimes fomewhat hairy. Linn./wee.—We have here 2 varieties; one with the leaves quite fmooth and almofl; gloffy; the other ivith woolly leaves; but they are clearly one fpecies. What can be the caufe of the fmoothnefs of the one, growing, as they do, intermixed? Flowers generally I, and fometimes 2, but in the Dutch gardens feveral on a flem; hisN. f. lapp.—Somegreen, and others hoary. Doubted whether not 2 diftinA fpecies. Leaves on the ftems more numer- ous than in C. latifolium.- Ray. Mountains and fides of rills, as on Snowdon, on the north fide of Wyddfa, and Clogwyn du yn yr Ardue near Llanberys. P. June. July. [Beginning of Aug. Ray.] Cows and Sheep eat it. (*CuRT. St.) CERAS'TIUM latifo'lium. Leaves egg-fhaped, fomewhat downy. Branches, each wdth i flower. Capfules globular. Linn.—Leaves downy. Capfules roundifk, but xvhen ripe lengthened out into a Jlraight horn. Hal'l. Mr. Wood\vard. LightJ. 10. at p. 242.f—[Marten fpitzb. G. d. Jiot examined.] Stems * If this mark of difference fliould prove uniform, Light/. 10. at p. 242, will prove'to be C. alpinum. St. f This figure accords in habit vvitli FI. dan. 6, which is referred by Linn, to C, alpinum, as does Mr. Lightfoofs defeription of it with that given by Linn. ‘ in'