Copy 1, Volume 5

English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants : with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth / By Sir James Edward Smith.

  • James Sowerby
Date:
[1841-1852]
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Credit: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants : with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth / By Sir James Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Class XIII. POLYANDRIA. Order I. MONOGYNIA. Genus CCLXXVIL ACTiEA. Bane-berry* Nat. Order. Ranunculaceje. Gen. Char. Calyx inferior, 4-leaved, deciduous. Petals 4. Berry 1-celled. Seeds numerous, flat. Perennial herbs, with alternate, compound leaves, and white flowers. Natives of Europe and North America. ACTiEA spicata. Herb Christopher. Tab. 746. Raceme erect, elongated. Petals as long as the stamens. Pedicels of the fruit slender. Actaea spicata, E. B. 918. Smith III. 3. Lindley 14. Hooker ed. 2. 257. ed. 3. 261. Rare. In mountainous woods and thickets, in the limestone di¬ stricts of Yorkshire, and Cleish woods, Scotland, where it flowers in May and June. Root creeping. Stem erect, 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves petiolate, twice or thrice ternate ; leaflets ovate, deeply cut and serrated. Berries purplish-black, juicy; they are foetid and nauseous both in smell and taste, and, as well as the whole herb, are reputed to be poisonous. Genus CCLXXVIII. CHELIDONIUM. Celandine. Nat. Order. Papaveracea:. Gen. Char. Calyx inferior, 2-leaved, deciduous. Petals 4. Stigma 2-Iobed. Pod long, linear, 1-celled, 2-valved; the valves opening upwards. Seeds numerous, crested. Perennial herbs, with tender pinnatifid leaves, and an acrid yellow juice. VOL. v. B
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