Flora Scotica, or A description of Scottish plants : arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods ; in two parts / by William Jackson Hooker.

  • Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Flora Scotica, or A description of Scottish plants : arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods ; in two parts / by William Jackson Hooker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    TKIANDKIA. A foot high ; smell (when in the act of drying) like Woodruff (Jspc- rula odorata), and giving the well-known scent to new-made hay. Leaves short. Panicle compact, spiked, yellow in age. Flowers lanceolate, valves of the cal. unequal, very sharp-pointed, slightly pubescent; valves of the ext. cor. as long as the smaller valve of the cal., very obtuse, hairy, brown; one with a straight awn from the back, the other with a twisted awn from near the base; int. cor. very small; valves membranaceous, obtuse, equal. III. T111A N DIII A. 1. MONOGYN I A. * Flowers superior. 1. Valeriana. Cal. involute, at length unfolding into a fea- therv pappus. Cor. monopetalous, 5-cleft, gibbous, or spur- red on one side at the base. Fruit crowned with the feathery pappus. Seed 1. 2. Fedia. Cal. toothed. Cor. monopetalous, 5-cleft, gibbous on one side at the base. Fruit 3-celled, 2 generally abortive. 3. Iris. Perianth single (Cor. of Auth ), G-cleft, petalous, each alternate segment reflexed. Slig?na petaliform. * * Flowers in ferior, glumaceous. 4. Schceniis. Cal. Glumes of 1 valve, imbricated on all sides, the exterior ones smaller, sterile. Cor. 0. Fruit naked, or with bristles at its base. 5. Scirpus. Cal. Glumes of 1 valve, 1-flowered, imbricated on all sides, 1 or 2 of the outer ones sometimes sterile. Cor. 0. Fruit naked or with bristles at the base. 6. Eriophorum. Cal. Glumes of 1 valve, l-flowered, imbri- cated on all sides. Cor. 0. Fruit with very long silky hairs springing from the base. 7. Nardus. Cal. 0. Cor. of 2 valves. 2. DIGYNIA. * Calyces \-fowered (except Artindo Phragmiics). t Flowers perfect (each having Anthers and Pistils). +- Cor. of 1 valve. V. At.opf.curus. Cal. 2-valved, valves nearly equal, acute, united at the base. Valve of the Cor. awned at the base. -i—t— Cor. of 2 valves.- 8. PAN!CUM. Cal. of 3 valves, single flowered, the third valve very small. Seed invented with the permanent hardened co- rolla.