Volume 4

An arrangement of British plants; according to the latest improvements of the Linnaean system. To which is prefixed, An easy introduction to the study of botany. Illustrated by copper plates / by William Withering, M.D. F.R.S. member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon; Fellow of the Linnæan Society; honorary member of the Royal Medical Society at Edinburgh, &c.

  • William Withering
Date:
1796
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Credit: An arrangement of British plants; according to the latest improvements of the Linnaean system. To which is prefixed, An easy introduction to the study of botany. Illustrated by copper plates / by William Withering, M.D. F.R.S. member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon; Fellow of the Linnæan Society; honorary member of the Royal Medical Society at Edinburgh, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with Tubercles, sanguinarius, in Jacq. coll. iii. 5. 3, l, seems to be the same as Wiegel’s plant. The above enquiry was excited by the just remarks of Dr. Smith in E. bot. p. 155, whose description, aided by an excellent figure, must for ever remove all further uncertainty respecting this hitherto, dubious species. On trees, and on granite rocks at Cromford Moor, near Mat- lock. Dr. J. E. Smith, L. Tubercles black: crust whitish, granulated. granifor'mis, Haven. 1.2. Crust stony, composed of minute granules, agglutinated in lines like the fibres of wood. Tubercles black, rather larger than the particles forming the crust. Hagen. On pales, and old willows. Dicks. 10. L. Tubercles black, sitting or on pedicles: crust white, ocula'tus, rough with fungous papillce. Dicks. Dicks.6. 3. #7. • Crust elevated into short papilla set very close together, both simple and branched. Tubercles growing on the crust as well as terminating the papillae and branches, sometimes flat and deprefsed, sometimes convex. Dicks. Rocks and stones, Scotland. n • L. Tubercles black : in clusters : crust hoary, mealy, musco'rum, - } ‘ Jacy.c0ll.iv.7A -Relh. at p. 42 ±-Fl.dan. 1003.1. Crust mealy, friable, grey or greenish. Tubercles sometimes fiattish when dry, otherwise convex, shining, black, numerous, large, turban-shaped when old. Weber. On Mofses. [On heaths. Mr. Woodward. Gogmagog Hills. Relhan.] P. Jan.—Dec. L. Tubercles black, globular: crust grey white. pilula'ris. Linn. Tr. ii.28.1. Some of the vounger fructifications are saucer-like, with ele- vated borders of the same colour; these are but few, and seem soon to lose that form. Found in Bowdowen Park, Anglesea, by the Rev. Hugh Davies. Linn. Tr. ii. p. 283.