Volume 2

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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    Dill,cltb, 145.1 j2-Pluk.2$. 6. Flowers white. Linn. Stems numerous. Flowering branches ascending, cottony, white. Leaves opposite, rolled back at the edee, with a prominent mid-rib underneath, cottony, v< • Bunches terminating. Fruit-stalks short. Leaf-scales spear-s • Calyx purplish, slightly hairy; the 2 outer leaves spear-shaped, minute. Woodward. , c „„„ Mountain Cistus. Brent Downs, Somersetshire, near the Severn Sea. P’ Jll!r- DIGYNIA. POTE'RIUM. Stamens and pistils in different flow- ers, on the same plant. Calyx 4 leaves: blojs. with 4 divisions. Male. St am. 30 to 40, Fem. Drupa juicelefs; beneath; } or 2-celled ; formed of the indurated tube of the blofsom. P. Thorn-lefs: stems somewhat angular. Dicks, h. s.—Ludw. 197-Rnipb.\-Curt.-Matth. 1034-Dod. 105.1- Lob.obs. 412.3; and if.i.718.z-Ger.em. 1045.i-Park.582.1- Ger. 889.1 -Sheldr.-Gan. 457-Fuchs. 789-J. B. iii.b. 116- Blackw.^ 13-Col.ecphr.i. \ 24-H.ox.vui. 18.1. Barren flower with 2 feeble pistils. Berry dry, angular. Seeds 4-cornered, tapering to each end. Linn. Fem. flowers at the top of the spike. Flowers greenish, sometimes purplish on the out- side. The plant has the habit of the Sanguisorba officinalis, and its fruit bears also a near resemblance, but the number and dis- position of the stamens, &c. will readily distinguish them. Upland Burnet. In a dry calcareous soil. [Brathay Meadows, near Ambleside, and elsewhere in Furnefs Fells. Mr. Atkinson. Weaver Hills, Staffordshire. Mr. Pitt. St. Vincent s rocks. Salisbury Plain.] P.April, May.-J* t The leaves and seeds are mildly astringent, and have been used in dy- senteries and haemorrhages. Lewis. The young leaves are sometimes used in sal lads, and in cool tankards. When bruised they smell like cucumber. It has, of late years, been cultivated, as affording food for cattle early in the spring; and growing so luxuriantly, as to allow of 3 mowings durins the Summer. Bot.arr.ed. i.f. 78;—but not answering the farmers expecta- tions. SanguisoPba.