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.

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

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    * Cardi'aca, i io. 2~Trag.8.2-Clus.u.3q:.i-Dod.8’j.i-Lob.cfa.2j%.3, and ic. 1.517.2-G^r. em.6g^.i-Park.44-Pet.^2. ^-H.ox.xi.g.row 3.1, Whole plant white with down. Lower-leaves roundish, wrinkled, with thick veins beneath; upper-leaves^omewhat egg-fhaped. Air. Woodward. Leaves wrinkled, hoary. Calyx woolly, fringed on the inside at the bottom of the teeth with woolly hairs, Blofs, comprefsed, bowed; upper lip spear-shaped; lower lip, middle segment slightly scolloped, lateral segments spear-shaped; short. Anthers with a black substance in the middle. Blofs, white. White Horehound. Road sides and amongst rubbish. P. July-—Sept.J* LEONU'RUS. Anthers sprinkled with shining par- ticles. L. Stem-leaves spear-shaped, 3-lobed. Kniph.4-Ludw.5-Ff dan. 727-Riv. mon.20.1, Cardiaca.-Blackw. iyi-E.bot. 286-Dod. 94.-L0b.0bs. 2 78.1, and ic. i.516.1 -Ger, em. yo^-Park,42.y-Ger.^6g-Fuchs.^9^-Lonic.i.i 10.3-H.ox, xi.9.18. Flowers in whirls, purplish within, white on the outside. Anthers brown, partly covered on the outer side with white opaque globules which look like enamel, but are not of a bony hardnefs. Common Motherwort. Hedges, and on rubbish and dunghills. [Ditchingham, Norfolk, in a hedge, and on an adjoining bank, in a gravelly soil. Mr. Woodward.] B. Linn, and Huds. P. Relh. June—Aug.| % % CLINOPO'DIUM. Stamens crooked; anthers ap- proaching : involucr. bristle-shaped, beneath the whirls. f It is very bitter to the taste, and not altogether unpleasant to the smell. It was a favourite medicine with the ancients in obstructions of the viscera. In large doses it loosens the belly. It is a principal ingredient in the Negro Caesar’s remedy for vegetable poisons. A young man, who had occasion to take mercurial medicines, was thrown into a salivation, which continued for more than a year. Every method that was tried to remove it, rather in- creased the complaint. At length Linnaeus prescribed an infusion of this plant, and the patient got well in a shprt time. Horses, cows, sheep, ahd goats refuse it. f The leaves have a strong, but not an agreeable smell, and a bitter taste. Goats, sheep, and horses eat it, Cows are not fond of it. Swine refuse it. /