Volume 3

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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    M. Leaves egg-shaped, serrated, on leaf-stalks: stamens aquat'ica. longer than the blofsom. Knipk. 11—Riv.1 M.pal. spic-H.ox .xi.7 .6-Fuchs.y 2 2 ~J.B. iii. 223-Matth. /±86-Dod. gj-Lob.obs. 272.2, and ic. i.509.1- Ger.em. 684.1 -Park. 12^-Pet.^i ,6-Lonic. i.i 14.1 -(FI.dan. 673, /r totally unlike it.) The length of the stamens variable. Hudson. Stem reddish towards the top, and set with a few bristly hairs pointing down- wards. Leaves egg-spearshaped, a little hairy on both sides, sometimes woolly. Branches generally shorter than the leaves. Calyx coloured, ribbed, hairy without, scored within; teeth not quite equal, glands semi-transparent. Blofs. hairy without. Stamens half as long again as the blofsom, nearly equal. Blofs, pale red. Water Mint. Watery places and banks of rivers. [Sides of the river at Tamworth, the stamens in some specimens longer, in others shorter than the blofsom.] P. Aug. 1 M. Leaves egg-shaped, on leaf-stalks : stamens shorter piperi'ta, than the blofsom. Pet. 31. 9-Ray 10. 2. has stamens much longer than the blofsom, though referred to by Linn. Flowers sometimes in whirls. Huds. Leaves broader than the common sort of Pepper Mint. But this sort is perhaps rather to be arranged along with the Water Mints. Dill, in R. syn. Stein upright. Blofsoms purplish red. Under each whirl there are 2 pointed, spear-shaped, hairy foral-leaves, Var. 2. Flowers in spikes. St. Woodu. 16g-Knigge difs.-Blackw.2g 1.2, andi-Pet.§i. 1 o. Spikes terminating the stem and upper branches, consiting of from 9 to 12 whirls. Whirls, the lower on fruit-stalks at a dis- tance from each other. In external appearance corresponding with M. viridis, for which it may easily be mistaken, but in M. vindis the stem is taller, .the leaves with scarcely any leaf-stalks, narrower in proportion to their length, spikes longer, composed of more whirls. Knigge. This is the Pepper Mint of our gar- dens. It belongs to the division of the spicaiac, has the nearest affinity to the M. viridis, and appears to me to be a species distinct from the M. piperita of Linnseus. St. Both this and the preceding, viz. the Linmean M. piperita pofsefs the same kind of odour and flavour, but in this the flavour is lefs heavy and more pungent. It is probable they will prove to be distinct species, and even when out of flower they may be distinguished, for in 1, the leaves are egg, or egg-spearshaped, / f