A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton].

  • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
Date:
1814
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. Essent. Gen. Char. Corolla rotate: Anthers nearly coalesced, opening at their apices by two pores : Berry two-celled. Spec. Char. Stem unarmed, shrubby, winding: Superior leaves hastate Racemes cymose. DESCRIPTION. 1 ms plant rises to four, five, or six feet in height. Branches climbing. Leaves long, oval, pointed, on the top hastate, or halbert-shaped. Flowers in loose clusters, always turning against the leaves, and avoiding the sun. Corolla composed of one petal, wheel-shaped, divided at the border into five pointed seg¬ ments, which are bent back, and of a purple colour. Promi¬ nences like dots surrounding the rim of the corolla form the nectary. The yellow anthers make a beautiful contrast to the corolla. These flowers become bilocular berries, which acquire WOODY NIGHTSHADE. SOLANUM DULCAMARA.