Agricultural Botany; An Enumeration and Description of Useful Plants and Weeds, Which Merit the Notice, or Require the Attention, of American Agriculturists (Paperback)

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. 1847 Excerpt: ...throat villous. Corolla with the upper lip erect, nearly flat, emarginate, --the lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, middle lobe longer. Anthers 2-celled; cells parallel or finally diverging. Humble shrubby or suffruticose plants. Leaves small, entire. Cymules few-flowered, --sometimes all remote, --sometimes in loose terminal heads, or interrupted spikes. 1. T. Vulgaris, L. Stems erect or procumbent at base; leaves oblong-ovate or lance-ovate, revolute on the margin, fasciculate in the'axils; cymules in terminal interrupted leafy spikes. Benth. Lab. p. 342. Fl. Cestr. p. 347. Common Thymus. Vulgo--Garden Thyme. Standing Thyme. Fr. Serpolet. Germ. Der Thymian. Span. Tomillo. Root perennial, woody. Stems 4 to 0 inches high, numerous, slender, rather erect, much branched and matted together at base, suffruticose, clothed with a short cinereous pubescence. Leaves one fourth to half an inch long, abruptly narrowed to a petiole, punctate, slightly pubescent beneath, fasciculate in the axils by reason of abortive branches. Calyx hirsute; strongly ribbed, punctate; segments of the lower lip subulate, pectinately cihate. Corolla pale purple. Gardens: cultivated. Native of Southern Europe. Fl. June--Aug. Fr. Aug.--September.., Obs. A favorite condiment in culinary processes, --and generally cultivated, in kitchen gardens. The creeping Thyme (T. Serpyllum, L.)--a species nearly allied in properties and appearance--is naturalized in many places. 120. SATUREJA. L. End/. Gen. 3611. A name supposed to be derived from the Arabic. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 10-nerved, deeply and nearly equally 5-toothed, or obscurely bilabiate; throat naked, or nearly so. Corolla bilabiate, --the upper lip erect, flat--the lower one spreading, 3-lobed, lobes nearly equal. Stamens 4, diverging; anther...