Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes.

  • Darwin, Robert Waring, 1766-1848.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 79 ] Class X. DECANDRIA. [Ten stamina or males.) Containing five orders. Order I. MONOGYNIA. (One female.) l st. Flowers many-petal’d, irregular. no. lT no. of ,• r genera, growth. , native or 6 6 species. J species in Brit< l Anag yns3 s s t s Sc h s h s t ■V t s s 2 Bauhinia, 3 Caesalpiriia, 4 Cafsia, '5 Cercis, 6 Ditlamnus,* * * § 7 Guilandina,f 8 Hymenaea,^ g Myroxylon, 10 Parkinsonia, 11 PoincianaJ 12 Sophora, 13 Tolaifera.J 2d. Flowers many-pctal d, equal. 14 Adenanthera, t 2 India. 37 2 2 5 1 1 1 3 *3 1 Italy. 8 E. and W. Indies. 3 W. Indies. E. and W. Indies. Italy. Canada, Cape. Germany. E. and W. Indies. W. Indies. Peru. W. Indies. E. and W. Indies. Levant, &c. 15 Chalcas, * The atmosphere which floats around thz fraxinella (di£tamnus aibus) inflammable, supposed to arise from an admixture of some efsential oil. + On the Malabar Coast, the roots of guilandina moringa are scraped and used as horse-radish, and have much the same taste. § The resin ca-lled gum anime is from hymencca courharil. |l Flower fence, (poinciana) is so called, because they make fences with it in Barbadoes to divide land: it hath a beautiful flower, and is armed with spines. + The balsam of tolu is from tolufera balsamnm.