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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    It varies in having the leaves broad and egg-spearshaped, or narrower and spear-shaped. [Hedges at Kirkby in Furnefs, and in fallow ground near Hutton Roof, Westmoreland. Mr. Atkinson. Moist cornfields in a gravelly soil, and under a moist hedge at Birches green near Birmingham.] A. July, Aug. GALEOB'DOLON. BIoJs. upper lip entire, vaulted; lower lip without teeth, 3-cleft; segments broad, pointed: anthers fleshy on the back. lu'teum. G. (H UDS.) Curt.223; GalcobdolonGaleopsis-Walc .~F)od. 153.3—L0&/VJ.521.1 -Ger.em. 702.2-Park.606-H.ox.x1.11.5- Pet. 3 3.6-fy‘v. mon. 2 o. 2, La m .fl. lut.-Kniph. 3~Gc r. 5 6 7.2-J. B. i i i. 3 2 3.1. Lower leaves heart-shaped; the upper egg-shaped, pointed. Flowers in whirls, sitting, 6 to 12 in a whirl. Whirls with an In- volucrum. Blofs. yellow; middle segment of the lower lip tawny, marked with 3 lines. Huds.—Floral-leaves bristle-shaped, 1 at the base of each flower. Blofs. lower lip beautifully striped and spotted with deep orange. Mr. Woodward. Stems ^-cornered, furrowed. Leaves spear-shaped, on leaf-stalks, unequally serrated, hairy, especially at the edges. Whirls the uppermost with 6 flowers, the rest with from 7 to 10. Involucr. leaves growing to the base of the calyxes. Anthers fleshy or glandular on the back part. Seeds oblong, convex on the outer side, 3-corneredon the inner. Gale- opsisGalcobdolon. Linn. Follichia Galcobdolon. Gmelin, who includes under his genus Pollichia the Lamium amplexicaule, but that has teeth on the side of the blofsom, and the name Pollichia had be- fore been given to another plant. See Hort. Kew. and Schreber. Yellow Archangel. Yellow Dead Nettle, or Weasel snout. Woods, shady places, and moist hedges. [ Bath Hills, near Bungay, Suf- folk; and woods, Norfolk. Mr. Woodw.—Hedges near Mal- vern Cliace. Mr. Ballard.—Woods near Worcester. St.—- Staffordshire and Warwickshire, frequent. ] P. May. BETQ'NICA. Calyx awned: blofs. upper lip upright, flat; tube cylindrical. ofTicina'iis. B. Spike interrupted: blofsom upper lip entire, lower lip the middle segment notched: calyxes smoothhh.