A Synopsis of British Plants, in Mr. Ray's Method, With Their Characters, Descriptions, Places of Growth, Time of Flowering, and Physical Virtues; Together With a Botanical Dictionary

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1744. Excerpt: ... ' 2. Fumaria major scandens florepallidiore, R.204. The greater Ramping Fumitory, with paler leaves. 3. Fumaria albalatifolia, R. 335, P. 288, G. E. 1088. Climbing Fumitory. It flowers about the end of May. By the fide of a ditch, near Kendsl castle, Westmoreland +'. The leaves are composed of five or six entire lobes, growing to a middle-rib, that runs out into a very small tendril. Fumitory is reckoned to be a great cleanser of the blood, and good for all sorts of cutaneous distempers, as scabs, itch, and leprous disorders; and for that purpose, it is given, with whey, in the spring, to purge and purify the blood, to help the scurvy, jaundice, and atFections of the spleen. CLASS XX. Vasculiferous Plants, with pntapetalous flowers. Ray'j Synop. f. 335. rri HE-plants of this class are divided into two X kinds; 1st, Such as bear their leaves opposite in pairs; id, Such as bear their leaves alternately: And these are again subdivided, iftt Into such as ftave regular flowers; 2d, Such as have irregular flowers. I. Such as bear their leaves oppofite in pairs. Caryophvllus. The leaves are oblong, grow by pairs, and are joined to the stalk without pedicles: It has a cylindrical membranous empalement, scaly at the bottom; from whence rise up five petals, narrow from their origins to the brim of the empalement, and broad from thence to the ends: They open circularly, and inclose five chives: The fruit is cylindrical, gapes at the top, is wrapped in the empalement, and contains smooth foliaceous seeds, adhering to a placenta. The species are: t. Caryophyllus minor repens noftrar. An Virgin us, its, R. 335, G. 477. Maiden Pinks. By the road-sides on the sandy hill ascending from Lent on to Nottingham; on sandy hills in Bedford/hire; on Mantham, near Slough, about ...