The London flora; containing a concise description of the phænogamous British plants, which grow spontaneously in the vicinity of the metropolis, with ... also a Linnæan arrangement of all the in

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. 1838 Excerpt: ...The latter is a common weed in Albury Park Gardens. It is also occasionally found in other gardens of the village. The other species is common in woods, and easily distinguished from this by its white flowers and acauline habit. Order LXXXIII.--Lina'ceje. Like the two tribes above; but differs from them in its five to tencelled capsule, with one to two seeds in each cell. LINU'M.--Calyx five-cleft. Petals, stamens, and styles five. Capsule globular, ten-celled. Seeds compressed. L. usitatissimum.--Leaves lanceolate, alternate. Sepals acute, three-nerved. Petals crenated. L. catharticum.--Leaves opposite, oblong. Stem dichotomous. Petals small, acute. On commons; not rare. L. angustifblium.--"Leaves linear, lanceolate, acuminate, threenerved. Sepals elliptical, three-ribbed, mucronate as well as the capsule." On the cliff edge, a little west of Pegwell, near Ramsgate--Rev. G. E. Smith. RADI'OLA.--Petals four. Capsule eight-valved, eight-celled. Calyx multifid. R. millegrdna.--About one or two inches high. Dichotomous, bushy, smooth, bearing numerous flowers. Wandsworth Common; Weybridge Common; Albury, on wettish sandy wastes; Shirley Park, &c. Order LXXXIV.--Polygala'ceje. Calyx four to five sepals. Corolla two to five petals. Stamens eight, constituting a laterally cleft tube. Ovary of two cells, rarely one to three celled. Style simple. Stigma two-lobed. Fruit capsular or drupaceous. POLY'GALA.--Sepals five, winged and coloured. Petals united with the filaments. Lower petal keeled. P. vulgaris.--Stem procumbent. Leaves linear, lanceolate. Flowers in terminal racemes, white, blue, or pink. The known Poly'galas are about 170. Order LXXXV.--Fumakia'ceje. Sepals two. Petals four, irregular, the upper terminating in a kind of spur. Stamens six in...