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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    27/430 (page 529)
    leaf-stalks, opposite ; those near the root egg-shaped, those of the stern spear-shaped, taper-pointed, with straight veins. Cal. teeth thorny. Blofs. yellow, woolly; helmet toothed; lips scolloped. In habit it agrees with the G. Ladanum, but differs in the breadth, serratures, veins and soft hairs of the leaves, and in the colour of the blofsoms. Huds. The hairs on ti e calyxes in this species are straight and glandular, but in the preceding white, and curled like wool or cotton. G. villosa. Huds. Sandy corn fields, Yorkshire and Lanca- shire. Near Newark, and about Bangor. A. July, Aug. G. Upper whirls nearly contiguous: calyx bellying, teeth Te'trahit. very long, bristle-shaped, equal: stem swollen below the joints. Riv .mon.31 yCannab.spur-E.bot.207-Kniph.%-Dcd. i ^.q-Lob.ic.i. 52'j.2-Ger.e?n.jog.2.a.~Ger.em.jog. i-Ger.573-Pet.33.%. Knots swoln. Cal. teeth thorny. Blofsom helmet scolloped. Linn. Blofs. generally purple, sometimes white. Ray. Calyx teeth terminated by sharp awns as long again as those of G. Lada- num. Mr. Woodward, Blofs. nearly ^ of an inch long Var. 2. Blofsoms white, and much larger than those of 1, Cannabis spuria fiore a!bo magno eleganti. R. syn. 240. Var. 3. Terminating flower salver-shaped. Found by Dr. Smith at Matlock in 1788. The terminating flowers were always regularly 4-cleft, and salver-shaped, with 4 equal stamens, while all the rest had their proper form. See E. Bot. 207. In all these varieties the leaves are egg-spearshaped, and only upper parts of the stem and branches are hairy. Kettle Hetnp Allheal. Hedge banks, borders of Cornfields, and amongst rubbish. A. July, Aug. G. Upper whirls nearly contiguous : calyx tubular, shorter canna'bina, teeth strap-shaped, unequal, 3 of them larger. Riv.mon.32, Cannab.spur.fi.maj .-Fl.dan.g2g-Ba.rr .ic .1158-Lob. tcd\.527.3~Ger.em.']og.2.b-Park.r>gg.i-Pluh.QLi .4. The specific character will hardly distinguish this from the G. Tetrahit, but an attention to the following circumstances will do it. Stem and branches very hairy in every part. Leaves paler green and more hairy underneath. Calyxes purplish red. Blofs. about 1 inch long, pale yellow; lower lip deeper yellow, its mid- dle segment purple. The seeds produced similar plants year after year, and the beauty of its blofsoms might challenge a place in the flower garden. G. Tetrahit, y FI. Lapp, and Suec. £ Huds. Ray. Syn. 241. g. Vol.III.—2M