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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    Tubercles. very thin, grey white. Tubercles of various sizes, not bordered. Dill. L. ferrugincus. Huds. L. ferruginosus. Gmelin. Bark of trees, old pales, and sometimes walls and rocks. P. Jan.—Dec. Var. 1. Tubercles more numerous, of a browner colour and softer consistence. Lightf. Tubercles often clustered together, several smaller ones forming a larger one. Mr. Woodward sup- poses this distinct. On Stones. Mr. Griffith. L. Tubercles flesh-coloured, sitting, flat, angular: crust icmado'phila, greyish. Hopu.enum.8. 1 -FI.dan. 472.4. Crust thinner, more compact, with smaller granulations. Tu- bercles perfectly sitting and in some measure immersed in the crust. Mr. WOODWARD. L. e/veloides. Weber 186. Mr. Woodward. L. Tubercles flesh coloured, globular : crust greenish ash- sphaeroi'des. coloured. Dicks. 2.2. Crust between mealy and wrinkled, greenish with a tinge of sea green. Tubercles small, spheroidal, dirty yellow or brown, heaped up into little clusters. Dicks. Heaths and woods. [Garn Dingle. Mr. Griffith.] June. L. Tubercles orange red : crust greenish ash colour. flavo-rubes'- Fl.dan.955.1. * cens. L. auraniiacus. Lightf. 8io. Trunks of trees, rocks and stones. P. Jan.—Dec. f 1 ‘ L. Tubercles grey green, smooth, set chequer-wise, and pertu'sus. pierced with 1 or 2 cylindrical holes: crust pale brown. Dill.i8.g-Jacy.ccll.n.i3.2-Fl.dan.j66-Bolt.i26-Hojfm.enum.3. 3~Wieg.2.\5-M1ch.52.0rd.32, and56.1.2, Lichenoides : in its earliest stage.-Hag.1.3. . G?ound leprous, white, thm, but where it produces fructifica- tions thick, cloven into angular warts. Linn. Crust thin. Tu- beicles innumerable, unequal, wrinkled, but smooth to the touch,’ grey green, hollow within, opening at the top with one or more 1