Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    purplish colour, with striz or long lines all along the length of the flower, of a deeper purple. It hath some stamina, and a stylus, which ends in two, and sometimes in three, globuli. The root is like that of the ordinary Orobanche, m the lesser it more imitates a bulbe, and hath a few fibres or stringy roots at the bases or sedes of it; the root of the greater is oblong. [This plant requires examination; it may be O. darbata.| Upon the marsh, in the moist places, I observed creeping upon the ground a small umbelliferous plant, the leaf some- what like to one sort of Gxanthe ; the flowers very small, and consisting of five little white poimted leaves; the umbell, for the most part, had but two spokes of flowers, in some three, but this perhaps may be imputed to the poverty of the plant ; the seeds striate, a little compressed, and but short; the stalk hollow, the root strmgy. This is the water parsnip, though it may perhaps be referred to the Gnanthe | Helosciadium inundatum, Koch.?| On the top of the hill, by the Torr, we found a kind of Vicza, with a long white flower [Vicia hybrida, Linn.| Like- wise, in the meadows hereabout, we found in great plenty a kind of /acea, in the leaf exactly like to the agra vulgaris, m1 the flower to the /acea major segetum | Centaurea nigra, with a row of marginal radiant florets. It is the plant noticed in Bab. Man. (p. 169,) as differ- ing in some respects from the true C. nigra B. radiata. | We saw Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb and chapel at the end of the church, also the abbot’s kitchen, which is yet standing, all built of freestone, without any timber in it, at the bottom four square, and im each corner a chimney, and the top is cupola’d up with one round arch, like a chapter-house, and on the top a stone lanthorn, to convey away superfluous smeke. Mr. Stroud’s barn, built all of freestone, with buttresses like a chapel, deserves to be remembered. The stump of the old Christmas thorn is now quite dead and gone, but they have several imocu- lated plants of it about the town. Mr. Pester, a mer- chant of Bristol, now owns the ruins of the Abbey of Glastonbury. |