Copy 1, Volume 2

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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    Clafs XI. DODECANDRIA. XII CHIVES. ]VTOT WITHSTANDING the title of this Clafs, , the number of Chives is not very certain ; fome of the Flowers containing more, and fome of them fewer than 12 ; fo that it is neceffary to attend to another cir- cumffance, (viz.) that in this Clafs the Chives are fixed to the Receptacle, but in the next Clafs they are fixed to the Cup. The different fpecies of Spurge are generally fuppofed diBicult to inveftigate, but the young botanift will foon learn to diftinguifh them, by attending to the following circumftances: Whether the < Root be annual, biennial, or perennial. Whether the plant in queflion be a fhrub, and if fo, whether it be thorny, or prickly, or neither. Stem is naked, cylindrical, or angular. Leaves are oppofite or alternate; and of what fhape. Rundle is general or partial; how di- vided, and how fenced. Floxvers have only chives, or both chives and pointals. Petals are entire; crefcent-fhaped, or hand-fhaped, kc. V. Capfules are hairy, warty, or fmooth. Vol. II. K k Order