English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, Vol. 12: With Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, To Which Will Be Adde

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Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, Vol. 12: With Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, To Which Will Be Added, Occasional RemarksThe root is perennial, confi¿ing of a fiender oblong curved bulb, 'with many fibres at its bafe. Stem from 3 to 6 inches high, folitary, erect, round, fmooth, leafy, enerally fimple and tingle-¿owered, 'as Linnzeus defines it, ut Mr. Griffith has not unfrequently obferved it branched and bearing many ¿owers. Radical leaves (lender, femicylindrical or angular, furmounting the fiém the rell alternate, fhort, dilated at their hafe. Flower terminal, ereét, compared by Dr. Richardfon to thalof Wood Sorrel (t. Which it at firft fi ht fomewhat refemhles, the petals bein white, external y veined with purplifh red. Stamina threa -fhaped, fmooth. Germen {u erior, becoming at length an obtufe membranous threelohed capfule, crowned Wlth the fie and invefied with the withered petals, and divided into 3 cells, containing unmet rous curved triangular firiated feeds.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.