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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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    Curt. V. 52.—Dod. 537, repr. in Lob. obj. 467. i, Ger. em. 1125, and cop. in Parh. 562.—J. J5. iii. 722. i, cop. in Pet. 59. 6. Leaves G In a whorl, 3 on each fide, round, thread-like, woolly, clammy. Fruit-Jlalks hvinching. Linn.—Leauej fomewhat flatted, convex above, with a Angle furrow underneath. Seeds, border fharp, exceedingly fhallow, very entire, but with a nick at its in- fertion oh the receptacle; in fome plants befet on each fide with exceedingly fhort brown hairs, of rather cylindrical prominencies, in others with fcarcely prominent dots. Chives equally variable in the plants with rougher or fmoother feeds. St.—Root Ample, defcending. Stems upright, cylindrical, knotty. Leaves ftrap- fhaped, flefhy. F/orwri in panicles. f/oa/er-/cafe5 oppoAte, very minute. Fruit-Jlalhs bent back after flowering. Blqffovis white. Lyons.—Chives in the autumn frequently fewer than 10. Seeds rough with riflng dots, when ripe black, with a white border. With.—If the Aems are forcibly extended, the cortical part fepa- rates at thebafe of each joint, while the inner part, which is very elaftic, Afetches and continues entire, or, on increaAng the exten- Aon, breaks generally a couAderable way above the joint. Mr. Woodward. With. Corn fields, and fandy places. A. July. Aug. [Sept. St.] Poultry are fond of the feeds; and the inhabitants of Finland and Norway make bread of them when their crops of corn fail. Experience fhews It to be very nutritious to the cattle that eat it. Horfes, Sheep, Goats, and Swine eat it. Cows refufe it. 0. penlandra. Huds. Mr. Woodward.—Flowers with 5 and 10 chives found on the fame plant. Huds. Spergida pentandra, which fee. ^-chived SPER'GULA pcntan'dra. Leaves whorls.Chives 5. Linn. Curt. cat. n. 753. Very much like S. arvenfis, but fmoother. Linn. Spergula annua femine foUaceo nigro, circulo membranaceo albo cindfo. R. fyn. 351, is referred to by Hudfon, but, from his not having given us any place of growth, it fhould feem to have retained its place in the FI. angl. from Linnaeus’s diredlion, in Munt. II. 90, to erafethe fynonyms of S. penlandra, having efcaped Mr. Hud-- Ion’s notice. It Is referred by Linn, to Arenaria viedia, which may poflibly prove a Britifh fpecies. I have a fpecimen from Germany which accords with the defcriptlons of Morifon and Ray, and which I believe to be the S. penlandra of Mcench and Scopoli. In habit it refembles S. arvenfis, not Arenaria rubra yiaritima, and has 5 (hafts; but the fruit is upright, and the feeds Amilar to thofe of A, rubral maritima, are fat, inverfely egg-ftaped, and Jurrounded with a membra-^