Volume 3

The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails / by Anne Pratt.

  • Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893.
Date:
[1873]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails / by Anne Pratt. 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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    * * * * * Umbels compound; fruit globose, not prickly ; carpels scarcely separating, scarcely ribbed, and with- out viltne; albumen solid. 29. Coriandrum (Coriandej).—Fruit globose; car- pels cohering; general involucre none; partial, on one side. Named from koris, a bug, from the unpleasant odour. ****** Umbels compound, fruit short and thick, not prickly nor beaked, somewhat flattened, with or without vittoi, albumen furrowed. 30. Conium (Hemlock).—Fruit broadly egg-shaped ; carpels with five prominent waved ridges; general invo- lucre of few leaves, partial of three leaves on one side. Name, the Greek word for the plant. 31. Physospermum (Bladder-seed).— Fruit of two globose kidney-shaped carpels, with five slender ridges; involutes both general and partial, of 1—5 leaves. Name from the Greek physa, a bladder, and sperma, a seed. 32. Sm^rnium (Alexanders).—Fruit of two kidney- shaped carpels, each having five prominent ridges. Name from the Greek Smyrna, myrrh, from the scent of some of the species. ******* Umbels compound; fruit oblong; usually more or less beaked; with or without vittce. 33. Scandix (Shepherd’s-needle).—Fruit contracted at the sides, with a very long beak ; carpels with five VOL. III. c