A new family herbal, or, A history & description of all the British and foreign plants, which are useful to man. Either as food, medicine, farming purposes, or in the arts and manufactures, / compiled from the works of Hill, Woodville, Don, Withering, and other botanists, by Richard Brook.

  • Brook, Richard, active 19th century.
Date:
[1853?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new family herbal, or, A history & description of all the British and foreign plants, which are useful to man. Either as food, medicine, farming purposes, or in the arts and manufactures, / compiled from the works of Hill, Woodville, Don, Withering, and other botanists, by Richard Brook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    His plant being as the directing post, he reads the botanical inscription, and discovers his plant to come either underthe CLASS XXIT. DICECIA, or CLASS XXI. MONCECIA. But if the flower was Bissexual, he has another course to take, and he has to see, I. Whether the Anthers are separate. or II. Whether the Anthers are united. If he find the Anthers united round the Pistil he has reached the object of his destination namely, CLASS XIX. SYNGENESIA. If the Anthers were separate, he has to advance a fourth stage and to see, I. Whether the Filaments are separate, or II. Whether the Filaments are united to each other. or III. Whether the Filaments are united with the pistil. If the Filaments arise from any part of the Pis- til, or from a pedicel (column) elevating the Pistil, the plant is then of CLASS XX. GY- NANDRIA. If the Filaments are united with eacp other, (these being joined together at bottom as a membrane), they are either, T- All of them united, forming one body.' or II. Divided into two parcels, making two bodies, op, III. Divided into three or more parcels, eachpaarc* being united.