Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.

  • Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disk xoith patent edge, 1. pinnatifid with distant broad entire blimtisb lobes, sap ruilkj^—Curt. Lond. ii. 104. P. Lamottei Bor.—St. 1—2 ft. high. Sap not turning yellow. Fl. large. Pet. transversely oval, pale red. Ped. mtli adpressed bairs. Stiq.-disk of nearly ripe caps, like eaves, obscurely lobed.—Sides of iaelda. a. VI. VII. E. S. I. t5. P. Lecoq'ii (Lamot. ?) ; filaments subulate, caps, clavate- ohlonff suddenly narrowed near the base without bristles, sti;/.- disk folded over the edge of the caps., 1. bipinnatifid vdt]i distant narrow entire acute lobes. Sap hecominq dark yelloic in the air.— Sy. E. B. 60.—St. 1—2 ft. liigh. Fl. large. Pet. usually distinct, obovate-wedgeshaped, red. Ped. vnih adpressed hairs. Stig.-disk with bluntly triangular lobes.—Sides of fields chiefly on a calcareous soil. A. VI. VII. E. S. t. JG. P. somnif'erwn (L.) ; filaments dilated upwai'ds, caps, truly globular without, bristles, 1. oblong unequally toothed ani- plexicaul.—i?. P. 2145. P. iii. f. 4481^—Fl. large'. Pet. bluish white with a violet spot at the base. V^^hole herb smooth, ex- cept sometimes a few rigid spreading bristles on the ped. and one tipping many of the teeth of the leaves.—On sandy ground near the sea, and in the Fens, rare. A. VII. E. 2. Meconop'sis Vig. Welsh Poppy. 1. M. cam'hrica (Vig.) ; caps, smooth, 1. stalked.—E. B. 66.— Caps, elliptic-oblong, beaked. St. many-flowered, about 1 foot high. L. pinnate, cut, glaucose beneath. Fl. large, yellow, on long stalks.—Damp rocky and shady places. P. W. E. I. 3. Eoeme'eia Cand. Jl. B. hyb'rida (DC.); pod 3-valved erect with a few rigid hairs at its top.—P. B. 201.—Caps, linear, 2—3 in long. L. 2—3-pinnatifld, with linear nearly smootli bristle-pointed lobes. St. about 1 foot high, usunlly slightly liaiiy. Fl. violet-blue. Pet. falling before noon.—Chalky corn-fields in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, very rare. A. V. VI. E. 4. Glau'cittm Town. Horned Poppy. 1. G. lutoum (Scop.) ; st. smooth, stom-l. ^-clasping sinuate, caps, miimtoly tubercular-as]x>rous.—E. P. 8.—Glaucous. St. 1—3 feet high, stout, much branched, glabrous or sliglitly hairy. Root-1. stalked, lyrate, lobed and cut, hairy. Pet. large, golden