Volume 1

Flora rustica: exhibiting ... figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Vol. I[-IV] / Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder ... With scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn.

  • Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825
Date:
1792-1794 [i.e. 1791-1795]
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Credit: Flora rustica: exhibiting ... figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Vol. I[-IV] / Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder ... With scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS. Wild Radifh is too abundant among fpring corn in many places ; flowering from June to Auguft. Linneus informs us, that in wet feafons it abounds among barley, in Sweden ; and that being ground with the corn, the common people, who eat barley bread, are afflidled with violent convulfive complaints*. Monf. Yillars, however, remarks, that this weed is fo common in fome of the cold moifl: vallies of Dauphine, that it mull needs make, great i ravages, if it were as dangerous as Linneus has reprefented jt ; and yet this fpafmodic difeafe is unknown there t. * Armen, acad. 6. 430. + Hiftoire des plantes de Dauphine.