Copy 2, Volume 3

The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith.

  • Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828.
Date:
1824-1836
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9. G. pyrenaicum. Perennial Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill. Stalks two-flowered. Petals twice the length of the calyx. Leaves kidney-shaped, lobed. Capsules keeled, even, somewhat downy. Seeds without dots. G. pyrenaicum. Linn. Mant. 97 & 257. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.3. 708. Fl. Br. 735. Engl. Bot.v.6.¢.405. Huds. 302. Curt. Lond. fase. 3.4.42. Lightf.367. Hook. Scot.206. DeCand. Prodr, v. 1. 643. Burm. Ger. 27. Cavan. Diss. 203. t. 79. f. 2. G. perenne. Huds. ed. 1. 265. G.n. 12. Ger. Gallopr. 434. t. 16. f. 2. G, columbinum perenne pyrenaicum maximum. Tourn. Inst. 268. Herb. Tourn. In meadows and pastures. By the river between Bingley and Keighley, Yorkshire ; also near Enfield, and about Brompton, Chelsea, and elsewhere near London. Huds. About Edinburgh. Dr. Parsons and others. At East Winch and West Bilney, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Near Oxford, at the back of St. John’s college. Mr. Woodward. Perennial. June, July. Root tuberous, perennial. Stems 2 or 3 feet high, upright, leafy, branched, clothed with spreading, or somewhat deflexed, fine, soft hairs. Leaves deep green, finely hairy, rather soft to the touch ; the lower ones on very long stalks, kidney-shaped, 2 or 3 inches wide, lobed more or less deeply, the segments notched, rounded and bluntish ; upper ones opposite on shorter stalks, with fewer, deeper, more spreading lobes. Stipulas broad, hairy, jagged at the points. Fl. light purple, much larger than those of G. molle. Cal, pointed, downy and somewhat fringed, scarcely half the length of the petals, which are inversely heart-shaped, with short very hairy claws. Stam. all perfect, but the 5 outer _ ones, as Mr. Curtis remarks, soon drop their anthers, whence they have been supposed originally imperfect. Caps. keeled, even, minutely downy all over when young, but subsequently becoming smoother. Seeds with a perfectly even surface. The flowers are sometimes white. Linnzus confounded this with his molle originally, and it is also the large-flowered molle of Mr. Curtis, found about Chelsea hospital. His figures of both are excellent, and he has correctly described their capsules, though he did not contrast them in the specific characters, for which these parts alone are all-sufficient. In one of the Linnean specimens I find a wrinkle or two at each side of the keel, of some of the capsules, not of all, nor do these by any means resemble the copiously wrinkled capsules of G. molle,