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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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    SAE en YS ee Germen in the females, egg-shaped, (angular. E.)\ Style thread- shaped, as long as in the other florets. Summit cloven, reflexed. S. Vess. none. Calyx permanent, shining, (coloured. E.) SEEDs in all the florets solitary, oblong, small, crowned with down, which is hair-like, or feathered. ; . Recep. naked. Oxs. In G. dioicum, (Antennaria montana, ), the male and female florets are on distinct plants ; a circumstance very unusual in this Class. Linn.* CONY’ZA. (Spixzenarp. E.) Gaertn. 166. Can. common, tiled, oblong, scurfy ; scales acute, the outer a little ex- panded. Boss. compound, tubular. Florets hermaphrodite, numerous, tubular, in the centre. Florets female, numerous, like the others, in the cir cumference. Individual hermaphrodites, funnel-shaped. Border with five clefts, open. 7 ndiwidual females, funnel-shaped.. Border with three clefts. Sram. Filaments five, hair-like, very short. Anthers forming a hollow cylinder. Pisr. Germen in the hermaphrodites, oblong. Style as long as the Stamens, thread-shaped. Summit cloven. Germen in the females oblong. Style thread-shaped, as long, but more slender than in the other florets. Summits two, very slender. S. Vuss. none. Calya closing, (beset with the tips of the scales. E.) SEEDS in all the florets solitary, oblong. Down simple, sessile. E.) Rucepr, naked, nearly flat, (tuberculated. E.) ERIG’ERON, (Fiea-pane. E.) Gertn.170. CaL. common, oblong, nearly cylindrical, tiled. Scales awl-shaped, up- right, gradually longer, nearly equal. Bross. compound, radiate. Florets hermaphrodite, tubular, in the centre. lorets female, strap-shaped, in. the circumference. Individual hermaphrodites, funnel-shaped. Border with five clefts. Indwidual females, narrow, between strap and aw]-shaped, upright, generally very entire. Stam. Filaments five, hair-like, very short. » Anthers forming a hollow cylinder. ; Pist. Germen in the hermaphrodites, very small, crowned with a down longer than the blossom. Style thread-shaped, as long as the down. Summits two, oblong, revolute. / * (For a further division of the genus Gnaphalium, see Antennaria of Gertner, and Brown’s observations thereon, in Linn, Frans. V, xii p, 123,