Identifier: englishbotanyorc07sowe (find matches)
Title: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 Boswell, John T. (John Thomas), 1822-1888 Lankester, Mrs. (Phebe), 1825-1900 Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871 Salter, John William, 1820-1869 Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870
Subjects: Plants Plants
Publisher: London : R. Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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eek word laTqfu,to make to stand, from its power to arrest fluxes, and to act as an astringent. Section I.—LIMONIUM. Gren. and Godr. Leaves pinnately veined. Scapes and their branches not winged.Axes of the spike not produced beyond the flowers. Calyx slightlyoblique at the base ; the limb not awned. SPECIES I.-S TATICE LIMONIUM. Linn. Plates MCLVI. MCLVII. MCLVIII. Rootstock thick, somewhat fleshy. Leaves conspicuously stalked,obovate or oblanceolate or strapshaped-oblanceolate petiolate, oftenaristate, piimately veined. Scapes corymbosely or paniculatelybranched in the upper half or two-thirds, destitute (or nearly desti-tute) of sterile branches. Spikelets 1- to 3-flowered, arranged in2-ranked unilateral subdistichous spreading or recurved or erect andsometimes incurved spikes. Inner bracteole twice as long as the outerone, and twice or once and a-half as long as the intermediate one.Calyx segments triangular, acute, entire, witli a minute tooth in eachsinus. Plant glabrous. MCLT
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Armeria vnlgari-plantaginea (?) Hybrid (?) between common and plantain-leaved Thrifts. MCLVI. KB. 102.

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