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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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    I ONOPOR^DUM. Tourn. 253, Carduus, Gd^rtn, i6i. Cal. common, roundish, bellying, tiled. Scales numerous, thorny, projecting on every side. Bloss. compound, tubular, uniform. F/orc/j hermaphrodite, equal. Individuals of i petal, funnel-siiaped. Tube very slender. Border upright, bellying, with- 5 clefts. Seg- ments I more deeply divided. Stam. Filaments 5, hair-like, very short. Anthers foxm- ing a hollow cylinder as long as the blolsom, with 5 teeth. Pi SI. Germen egg-shaped. Style thread-shaped, longer than the stamens. Summit crowned. S. Vess. none. Calyx closing a little. Seeds solitary. ' hair-like, sitting. Regept. chaffy. lopped, but sharp pointed, shorter i than the seeds, united so as to form ceils. CARLPNA. Toiirn, 285. Gcertn* 163. Cal. common, bellying, radiate, tiled. Acij/er numerous, iiexible, acute, the inner in a circle, very long, expand- ing, shining, coloured, forming rays to the compound flower. Bloss. compound, uniform, tubular. Florets hermaphrodite, equal. Individuals of i ])etal, funnel-shaped. Tube ; funnel-shaped, with 5 clefts. Stam. Filaments hair-like, very short. Anthers form- ing a hollow cylinder. Pi ST. Germen short. Style thread-shaped, as long as the stamens. Summit oblong, cloven or entire. S. Vess. none. Calyx unchanged. Seeds solitary, rather cylindrical. Down divided into rays, somewhat chaff-like, branched, feathered. Regept. fiat, chaff bristle-like, membranaceous, and a little united at tJie base, forming cells, with many clefts, rays awl-sha])cd. Bristles somewhat longer than the cjiaff, and club-shaped, are intermixed with it. BPDENS. Tourn, 262. Geertn, 167. Cal. tiled, upright; nearly equal, oblong, concave and channelled.