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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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    taceous, leaf-like, tiled, loose. D. Somewhat crustaceous, leaf-like, tiled, loose. fahlunen'sis. L. Saucers black: leaves strap-shaped, forked, flattish, pointed. • 4 ' > , Hofin, lieh. 36.2- F/. dan.^rf-facq.misc. i i. 1 o. 2 - D/7/. 2 4.81 -//<? enum.iy.2. Circular, leathery, thin, both surfaces shining, brown chang- ing to black, curled at the edge, lobes blunt, white within. Sau- cers very numerous and crowded on the upper surface, concave, black, shining. Jacquin. Rocks and large stones, on the Highland mountains. Lightf. * Near Langdale, Lancashire. Huds. [On stones near the sum- mit of Carnedd Llewelyn. Mr. Griffith.] squamartus, L. Saucers black, rough, rather convex, imperfectly bor- dered: leaves green, rather glaucous, minute, thick- ish, rounded, but indented and angular. Dicks.b.s.-Di/l.30.135. - Leaves small, thick, leathery, with shallow segments, whitish underneath. Dill. In some plants the saucers are rather dark brown than black. On the ground in turfy places, Scotland. Rocks in Cumber- land. DicksoX.—[On a wall about a mile from Cerigy Druidion; road side leading to Denbigh. Mr. Griffith.] cilia'tus. L Saucers brown black, fringed: foliage dark green, tiled; leaves slightly many-cleft, fringed. 'Hojfm. enum. 14.1, Leafits strap-shaped, divisions slender, dull dirty green, glau- cous grey when dry, blackish when old, fixed firm to the bark of trees by numerous tendrils on the under side. Hoffman. On rocks and stones. Dicks, iii. 16. sty'gius. L. Saucers brown black, numerous, circular, border broad, scolloped; foliage brown black to purplish and quite black; leaves hand-shaped, tiled, bent at the end. Hojfm. Itch. 25.-2; enum. 14.2. Distinguished from the L. fahlunensis and omphalodes by the leafits being strap-shaped, with repeated forked divisions; and forming an irregular circle. Saucers very large when old, Hoffman.