10 results
- Digital Images
- Online
Sempervivum tectorum (houseleek)
Rowan McOnegal- Digital Images
- Online
Sempervivum tectorum L. Crassulaceae Houseleek, Senegreene Distribution: Europe. Sempervivum means 'live forever', tectorum means 'roof', and was apparently grown on house roofs to protect against lightning. Lyte (1578 distinguishes Stonecrops (Sedum) from Sengreene (Sempervivum) for he advises the Sempervivum, alone or mixed with barley meal, applied topically to burns, scalds, St Anthony's fire [erysipelas], ulcers and sores, will cure them and sore eyes. Apropos of stonecrops (Sedum), he describes the redness and blistering that the sap has on bare skin, and how it is good for poisons for if taken with vinegar by mouth it causes vomiting, but only safe to do so in strong people. He seems fairly confused as to which is which. Not approved by the European Medicines Agency for Traditional Herbal Medicinal use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
- Online
Sempervivum tectorum L. Crassulaceae Houseleek, Senegreene Distribution: Europe. Sempervivum means 'live forever', tectorum means 'roof', and was apparently grown on house roofs to protect against lightning. Lyte (1578 distinguishes Stonecrops (Sedum) from Sengreene (Sempervivum) for he advises the latter, alone or mixed with barley meal, applied topically to burns, scalds, St Anthony's fire [erysipelas] , ulcers and sores, will cure them and sore eyes. Apropos of stonecrops (Sedum), he describes the redness and blistering that the sap has on bare skin, and how it is good for poisons for if taken with vinegar by mouth it causes vomiting, but only safe to do so in strong people. He seems fairly confused as to which is which. Not approved by the European Medicines Agency for Traditional Herbal Medicinal use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
- Online
A houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum): flowering plant. Coloured engraving, c. 1788.
Date: 1788Reference: 25807i- Archives and manuscripts
'A white flowered form of Sempervivum arachnoideum,' by Guido Pontecorvo in The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society,Vol 98, part II, p504
Date: Nov 1973Reference: UGC 198/7/2/91Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Pictures
- Online
Seven plants, including a chalice vine and fuchsia: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
Date: 1833Reference: 27548i- Digital Images
- Online
T. Green, The Flora of the Liverpool Distric
- Pictures
- Online
Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870.Date: 1861Reference: 24540i- Digital Images
- Online
Hylotelephium telephium syn. Sedum telephium 'Matrona'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
- Online
Miscellanea Austriaca ad botanicam, chemiam, et historiam naturalem spectantia / [Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin].
Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von, 1727-1817.Date: 1778-1781