A General System of Nature, Volume 5; Through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Systematically Divided Into Their Sever (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. 1806 Excerpt: ... Shrub with opposite ternate leaves; leafets ovate-lanceolate, finely serrate: racemes terminal. 529. BECHERA. Calyx 5-clefr, superior, with a globular tube: corol 5-petalled: capsule 2-celled, 2-valved. decumbent. Bechera. Oldenlandia digyna; Rctz. obs. 4. p. 23. Wdld. 1. p. 674. Tranquebar. Stems branched, decumbent: leaves lanceolate, entire, sessile: flowers axillary, sessile, or on very short peduncles: petals minute, white: stamina j: flyles 2. Jn classification and appearance this plant is so remote from 'Oldenlandia, that it necessarily forms a new Genus. I have therefore named it from the Rey. John BechR, of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, an accurate botanist, to whom the science is indebted for the discovery of the Crocus nudiflorus. 530. PHYLLIS. Stigmata bristly: calyx 2-leaved: corol 5-petalled: feeds 2. nobla. Phyllis. Bastard Hare's-ear. Canaries. Dill. elth. 405. /. 299, f. 386. yalerianella. Shrub jointed: leaves spear-lhaped, paler underneath, mostly in threes: Sowers terminal, in loose panicles. UMBELLED. 531. CUSSONIA. Petals 5, 3-fided: margin of the receptacle dilated into a 5-toothed calyx: fruit compressed, double, angular, crowned with the 'calyx and style. tkjrsifolia. Leaves in finger-like divisions; the leafets sessile, wedge-form, truncate, 3-toothed: flowers racemed. The Cape. TbunB. AS. nov. Ups. 3. p. 120. /. 12. Leaves alternate, petioled: racemes unibelkd, with 4 rays. fpicata. Leaves finger-like; the leafets slightly petioled, spatulate; stipule 3 or 5-palma?e, finely serrate: flowers spiked. The Cape. Thunb. Aa. nov. Up/. 3. /. 120.1.1 3. 532. ERYNGIUM. Involucre many-leaved: flowers in heads: common receptacle conic, chaffy: feeds bristly. Eryngo. fatiditm. Root-leaves lanceolate, serrate; floral-leaves many-cleft: stem for...