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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    tiled, spreading, fixed. Dicks. 9.7. Plant widely spreading, nearly circular, firmly adhering to the stone on which it grows; many-cleft; segments semi-cylindrical, waved, somewhat adhering to each other; blue black in the cen- tre, with black dots; yellowish towards the extremities. Powdery male clusters scattered on the surface. Saucers scattered, small, concave, brown within, the border and the outside yellowish. On stones, in Scotland. Dicks, iii. 16. [On stones near Llyn Aled. Mr. Griffith.] L. Saucers flat, tawny: leaves greenish, rounded, scolloped, cartilagin'- Sristly- ^ eue.& Dicks.h.s—Fl.dan. 100&-Mich.51.01’d. 30.1 ~liojfim.erium. 19.1— Dill. 24.74. Leaves small, roundish, somewhat notched, very thick, of a yellow herbaceous hue, Hu ds.—fleshy. Saucers, the young ones concave and regular, the old ones flat and irregular. VVoodw. L. crafsus. Huds. 530. and Gmel. syst. veg. Rocks thinly covered with earth, and mountainous heaths. Near Newborough, > on Liandwellyn Rocks; on Glyder Hill; about Malham York- shne, VV estmoreland, and King’s Park, near Edinburgh. P. Jan.—Dec. L. Saucers green yellow, changing to full yellow; border muraTis, paler: crust greenish with a tinge of yellow : some- what tiled. Hoffm.Uch. 16.1 - Jacf. cotl.u. i i^.a-Mch.51 .enum. u. i, (not g. 1, as cited in the description.) r~*1}1 friable, circular, leafy at the edge, leaves crowded, prelsed and firmly fixed to the stone or wood on which it grows, narrow, cut into segments, scolloped and cloven at the end. Sau- cet s in the central part, very numerous, almost covering it, vary- ing m colour, flattish, grey green, yellowish, tawny, reddish or brown, paler at the edge. Whole plant greenish when young and wet, dirty grey or yellow brown when old and dry. Hoffman. (Not L. pallescens under which Reichard has inserted it as a synonym. No one who had examined both could pofsibly sup- pose them the same. It much more nearly resembles L. cartila- gtneus. Mr. Woodward.) Rocks and old walls. [Not uncommon, Mr. Woodward.] P. Jan.—Dec, 1