The British Flora Medica, or History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The British Flora Medica, or History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain, Vol. 2: Illustrated by a Coloured Figure of Each PlantDescription. - Common Holly is a small evergreen tree, vary~ ing in height from four to thirty feet, or more, much branched, with the young shoots very smooth, pliant, and of a fine green colour the bark is ash-coloured, very compact, the wood is hard, heavy, yellowish-white, darker towards the centre. The leaves are persistent, alternate, petiolate, coriaceous, of a deep shining green colour, ovate, undulated, and furnished at the margins with strong sharp spines.* The ¿owers are small, numerous, on short peduncles, somewhat umbellate, and spring from the axils of the leaves. The calyx is small, slightly hairy, and mostly four-toothed. The corolla is rotate, in four deep divisions, of a whitish colour. The stamens are four (sometimes five, and then the other parts of the ¿ower have a corresponding development), Spreading, with subulate filaments, attached to the base of the corolla. The germen is sessile, four-celled, and terminated by four sessile obtuse stigmas. (the pistil in some ¿owers is altogether wanting.) The fruit is a shining scarlet berry, nearly spherical, and includes fodr, bony, channelled nuts, each containing a single seed. Plate 26, fig. 1, (a) an entire ¿ower, of the natural size, (a) calyx and pistil, (c) the berry, with part of the ¿eshy substance removed, to show the four nuts (d) a nut, isolated.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.