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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    r>lant covered with soft white hmis, of a palci giccn than M^.gen~- nil's. Sum not tinged with red; hairs pointing downwards. Leaves towards the top egg-spearshaped, towards the bottom roundish. Whirls composed of 2 opposite umbels, sitting. Calyx pale green, beset with soft white hairs, interspersed with very minute semi- transparent glands. Blofsoms hairy within and witnout. 6 1 cun n is in some plants longer than the blofsonn Corn Mint. Watery places and moist corn fields. PJuly-Se.pt. Var. 2. sativa. Stamens longer than the blofsoim M. sativa. Linn*. In this variety the leaves are,sometimes smooth, FI.dan. j 9 jj.-Riv.mon. 4.8.1 .M.vert.-H.ox.xi.j .row 1. Marsh Mint. Marshy places, sides of rivulets, and gardens. P. July, August.'f* Var.3. Leaves smaller and smoother. Ray syn. 232.2. M.ru- bra @ Huds. Side of the new river the upper end of Stoke New- ington. Hop ground at Locking. Ray. * •* , , - 4 - *• M. Leaves egg-shaped, blunt, somewhat scolloped: stems Pule'gimm roundish, creeping: stamens longer than the blofs. Ludw.195-Blackzu.302-Riv.23. 1, Pulegium-Woo civ. 17*1 —Fuchs, 198-J-B.in.256.2-Trag.23-Matth.jo4~D0d.282-L0b.0bs.266. and ic.i.500.i-Ger.em.6ji.i~Pet.32.2-Park.29-Lonic. i.i 14. 3-H.ox.xi.j.row 2»i 6 Stems with 4 blunt corners, hairy, branched. Leaves thick, slightly toothed, underneath set with deep semi-transparent dots. Blofs. twice as long as the calyx, hairy without. Stamens equal. Pistils as long as the stamens. Blofs. pale pufple. , Pennyroyal Mini. Moist heaths and pastures. [Side of a pool at Robert’s End, near Hanley Castle,Worcestersh. Air.Ballard. Side of a pool at Erdington, Warwicksh.] P.Aug,—Sept.f # GLECOMA; Cal. 5-cleft: anthers in pairs, each pair forming a cross. f It prevents the coagulation of milk; and when cows have eaten it, as they will do largely at the end of summer, when the pastures are bare, and hunger d»strefses them, their milk can hardly be made to yield cheese; a circumstance which sometimes puzzles the dairy maids. Horses and goats eat it; sheep are not fond of it •, cows and swine refuse it. X The exprefsed juice, with a little sugar, is not a bad medicine in the hooping ebugh. A simple, and a spirituous water, distilled from the dried leaves, are kept in the shops. They are prescribed in hysterical affections, and are not without considerable anti spasmodic properties. An infusion of the phnt may be used With the same intention. Mi sea fpier.s; Camda•umdii. Phalana Chryv.tis live upon the different specif '. t