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An arrangement of British plants, according to the latest improvements of the Linnean system / with an easy introduction to the study; of botany. Illustrated by copper plates. By William Withering.

  • William Withering
Date:
1830
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Credit: An arrangement of British plants, according to the latest improvements of the Linnean system / with an easy introduction to the study; of botany. Illustrated by copper plates. By William Withering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eee z . SINA’PIS. (Musrarp. Cuaruocx. EB.) Tourn. 112. Gerin. 143. (Br. Sm. E.) | 3 Cat. Cup four leaves, (nearly flat at the base ; leafits oblong, straight, spreading, almost horizontally from the very bottom, deciduous. E.) Bioss. four petals, forming a cross. Petals nearly circular, expanding, elata 3 claws upright, strap-shaped, rather shorter than the cup, sessile. Nectariferous Glands four, egg-shaped, one between each shorter stamen and the pistil, and one ‘between each pair of longer stamens and. the cup. . Sram. Filaments six, awl-shaped, upright, the two opposite ones as long as the cup, the other four longer. Anthers upright, but expanding, pointed. Pist. Germen cylindrical. Style (very short, E.) Summit a knob, entire, : S. Vuss. Pod oblong, with protuberances on the lower part, (terminating in an abortive or one-seeded beak. E.) Cells two. Valves two. Par tution large, compressed, generally twice as long as the valves. SEEDS (in a single row, nearly globular ; cotyledons folded, condu- plicate, incumbent, their doubled edges meeting the radicle. E.) | Oss. Differs from Brassica in having the claws of the petals upright, and the leafits of the calyx expanding. Linn. (The beak of the pod, in some, is little else than a permanent unaltered style. E.) RAPH’/ANUS. (Rappisu. E.) Tourn. 114 and 115, Rapha- nistrum. Gertn. 143. (Br. Sm. E.) Cat. Cup four leaves, upright; leaj/its oblong, parallel, converging, deciduous, (two of them slightly prominent at the base. E.) Buoss, four petals, forming a cross, Petals inversely heart-shaped, ex- panding ; claws a little longer than the cup, (erect. E.) Nectariferous Glands four, one between each shorter stamen and the pistil, and one on each side, between the longer stamens and the cup. Shin: Filaments six, aw]-shaped, upright, two opposite ones as long as the cup, the other four as long as the claws of the blossom. Anthers (oblong. E.) Pisr. Germen (cylindrical, tapering. E.) Style (awl-shaped. E.) Summit a knob, entire. S. Vess. Pod oblong, (imperfectly cylindrical, but pointed, with pro- _ tuberances as if jointed, coriaceous, not bursting, E SreEps (pendulous, globose, forming a single row ; cotyledons folded, in- cumbent, their doubled edges meeting the radicle. E.) Ons. (Pods internally spongy ; so variable as to their jointed appearance, as not to support the distinction by which Tournefort and Gertner would characterize their genus Raphanistrum. E.)