Flora londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnaeus and other authors, with a particular description of

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MELISSA. LinM. Gen. H. Di DYNAMIA GYMNos PERMIA. θω aridus, supra planiuscuius labio superiore sub stigiato. cirrigis labium superius subsornicatum, hisdum, lab. in lobo medio cordato.

MEI IssA Nonis pedunculis axillaribus disthotomis solio longioribus, e te adscendente hirsuto. Li . Sets. Veg. p. 542. Ssec. H. p. 828. MELISSA soliis hirsuti ovatis acuminatis; leniter serratis, petiolis ramosis, solia superantibus. HUL

CAULIS lignosus, mox supra basin divisus in ramos elongatos, pedales ad hipe ales, ascendentes, stobsolete tetragonos, ins 1 ne rus escentes, pilis imollibus, hori onialibus obstos FOLIA opposita, remotiuscula, brove potiolata, vix pollicaria. patentissima, sub carinata, apice

reflexa, late ovata, sere cordata, obtususcula, serrata, margine revoluta, subundulata, veno

so ugosa, mollia, utrinque villosa, pallide viridia FLORES verti illati, pallide ecerulei, ante explica-

tionem savescentes, odoris uti tota planta aromatici. ivgRTICILLI dimidiati, soliis altiores, paucisori BRACTE E paucae, parvae, subulatae. PEDUNCULI communes duo, axillares, dichotomo- ramos, 4-6 flori. Pedici h inaequales, erecti.

CALYX: Ppsti Au TRIUM monophyllum, tubulatum, iperspens, quindecimuriatum, pilosusculum,

que hirsutis, inferioribus duobus longioribus, angustioribus. Striae dentesque susco purpu

rascentos, A. 1.

COROLLA monopetala; ringens, calyce longior, pilosiuscula, Tu sus cylindraceus, albidus Fhus dehiscens, barbata. I Astu M superiusi brevius, erectiusculum prosunde emarginatum, subcordatum; dorso plicatum inserius trista iam, undulatum, lacinia media majori, A. 2. STAMINA: F1LAMENTA quatuor, teretia, albida, CC-rolla breviora, duo breviora. ANTRA AEbi loculares, violaceae. POLLEM album, A. 3.

PISI ILLUM: G pu pN quadris dum, basi glandulanenari sera fulvente cinctum. Sturus sili formis, purpurascens, corollae longitudine, eum staminibus sub labio superiore corollae inclinatus. ST1GMA tenue, bifidum, reflexum, A. 4.pERICARPIUM nullum Calyx immutatus in sinu . semina fovens. SEMINA quatuor, CVata. ROOT perenniat, somewhat oblique, croohed, round, woody, brown.

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ANEMONE Genn a seminibus aeutis, soliolis incisis, petatis lanceolatis numerosas. L n. Susi Veied 14. Murri p. 511. Spre. PI. ed. s. p. 769. Hudst FL Angi. ed. u. p. 237. ANEMONE geranti robertiani solio caerulea. Batii. Pin. 17 .RANUNCULUs nemorosus, fore ea ruleo, apennini montis Morz. pug. t. s. i. 2. ANEMONE hortensis tenui lia. simplici fore r. O . Misi. a. p. 254. ANEMONE Geranis otia. Storheli bill Winde-flower. Gre. Hob. p. 3Oq. A. 7.RANUNCULUS nemorosus fore purpureo caeruleo. The single purple wood Crowsoote. P s. 73. s. a 25. RHi S n. M. 3. p. 259.

RADIX

perenDis, tuberosa, crassitie minimi digiti, b

difformis, susca. ,

CAULIS teres, glaber, purpurascens, uniforus, spitha

marus.

FOLIA radicalia ternata, petiolata, soliolis tripartitis,la iniis incisis, acutiusculis, utrinque pilosis: solium caulinum pedunculo subjectum sive inuolucrum) sessile, ter aut quaternatum, soliolis uti in solio radicati. FLOS erectus, pallide caeruleus, odore suavi PEDUNCULUs subpalmaris, teres, pilosus, subpum purascens, juxta florem viridis. CALYX null's. COROLLA: Ppet hi A ast ad 15, in tres ordines dis

posita, oblonga, i . a STAMINA: F1LAMENTA numerosa, inaequalia, capillaria, alba: ANTRE AE erectae, didymae, flaventes, A. 2, PISI ILLUM: GEst Mi vh numerosa; in capitulum collecta : STYLi breves: STto MATA obtusa,

purpurea, stylum incurvum retinentia, haud infrequenter abortiva, A. 4, 5.

ROOT perenniat, tuberous, the thichnessi os the litile finger, irregular in iis mape, and of a hrown

colour.

whieli is lolt when the Lowers have been lome time esposed to ille sun. V V Ii is a very ornamental plant sui table to decorate the sower garden. shiubbery, or Uil demess. it Aelialiis ina pure air. and a light Joamy soli; Me never could malle it succeed in our Gardon at Lambelli Marsh bus iii

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PRIMULA orati s solos rugosis, dentatis; subtus hirsuti; : scapis uni floris. Jac . Mi . Austr. p. PRIMULA O Uyoris soliis dentatis rugosi seapo sub unis loro, limbo corollar plano. II, 7 . FI. A PI ed. s. p. 8a. EPRIMUL A soliis dentatis rugosis pedunculi; padiealibus unis oris, limbo corollarum plano. iEI M. p. 42, PRIMULA Ceris var a aulis, scapo nullo Lian. 8. Pl p. qm. 8 7. Veterab. H. 1 q. Murri s. 1CI.

PRIMUL A fris. Seopsi M. O . n. 2oq. PRIMUL A soliis hirsutis, rugosq; dentatis i si pis unis oris, Honer Hi . n. 6 8. VERRASCULUM sylvarum majus singulari flore. Mul. Pin. 241. PRIMUL A veris pallido fore humilis. O . Hi q. s. 3o2. PRIMUL A veris minor. G Hers. 636. PRIMUL A veris vulgaris. P I. Tl. s. 535. Risii 5 n. p. 984. Common primrose RADIX perennis. obliqua, pr morsa, squamis crassis rubentibus a soliis praeteritis rolictis obtecta : emittens si ras copiosas, praelongas, teretes, qalbidas. Odor singularis sere auis. '

FOLIA subpalmaria, erectiuscula. oblongo ovata, bas uattenuata, obtusa, venosa, rugosa, supra laevia, subtus hirsuta. margine parum revoluta, leviter θundulata, inaequaliter Crenata : costa albida,

in petiolum canaliculatum carinatum ruben λtem desinente. λSTIPUL E subunei ales, acuminatae, ad basti pedun- oculorum. 6FLORES erecti, numeros . pallide sulphurei, majus

culi, suaveolentes. IPEDUNCULI erebit, soliis paulo breviores, unifori, ateretes, hirsuti, pallide virento , ok ipsa Iradice progredientes, post florescentiam de-

sexi. D LYX : Psarhur uiuM 1-phyllum, persistens, ob- longum, tubulosum, plicato- pentagonum, Apilosum, 5-dentatum, dentibus acuminatis,

apice inflexis, A. a. o COROLLA monopetata, tubulosa: fiatii cylindra- 6ceias, Calyce longior, striatus, nitidus, j snj Jquinquepartitus, patens, laciniis ob cordatis, em sinatis, basi macula stellis opsti sint a 2 notatis : salax obsolete coronata, A. 2. A

sIAMINA: Fi LAMENTA s, brevissima, intra tubiam i, corollar, A. 4. aut ad faucem ejus posita, . s. ANTRE AE erectae, oblongae, flavae, o subtrigonae, A. 5 conniventes. 0

segmenta obcordate, emargin te, marhed at

ille base luith a sta mapeti rei low spol, themouili marhed with a faint ram, A. p. STAMINA: sive Fi LAMENTs, very mori, placedet ther within the iube os ille corolla, A. 4.or at iis mouili, A. s. ANTHER E upright, oblong, yellom sona Uliat three-corner' , . 5. Holing together. PISI ILLUM G ausu above the base of the calyx, nearly globular, smooth. Ig. 6. SiYLs fili sortia, usualty shorter than the iube, A. 7.ST1GMA rounii, A. 8.Primnia meris appears to have been a Lind os generat, or generio name gi ven by many os the anetent Boianis sto the Pr, sp, and Glyp . 3 et is mosi applieable to the Primi ose, as a sower os the sprinio: thev regarded these planis cis so many distinct speci , and suci, they were in generat considered illi Lis ΝΛυs ventured to maintain a contrary opinion, an opinion whicli comparati ly speahing, se. os his solio vers have aequiesceti in partial as ive are to the transcendent merita Os that great man, Me cannot agree Uith him in this inflance, Without destroying, as wst apprehend, ali limits os specifie distinction. Tho most serit in charadier of the Plimrose consst; in iis mode of sowering each blossoni gro ving on a single pedunci , whi h springs smin the root: L1ΝNaeus asseris that the peduncles si ring si om a scapus, as in the Coissis , though it he so thori as not to appetir above groianii, and si om this circumstance principalty hemaintains that the Primi osse is only a variet y : or, in oth r woriis, that the primi os . the Cosissis , and the Oxlipare One and the fame species. We will not dony the existende os suel, a stalli as Litis A Us describes: in examining a vast number of thesepiant s. we have sciund it in a seio, hut it certainly is not generat in the wild plant; we are ready however to admit more than the existenee of this smort scapus : the plant when culti valed will sonae times throw up a s cithsimilar to that os the Polyanthus, and of this my very good friend Dr. BUXTou, os Green victi, has favoured me Uith a si hing inflati e : Primi osses in their Uild state intro lueed to his Gardon at Maiste Hill, a seis Mears since, no v produce sowers, both with and without a scapus, are in deed hecome, colour exe pred, perfeci Polyanthuses j in my own garden the whi te hole in hos e Prim rose produces early in the spring, slowers on eduncles, and aster variis sowers oti a scapus or; to speah in the languam of the floris . sowers in a trusis, ut uill they haust ille sollage and the so vers of the true Primrose: the Cowslip and the Oxlip, on the cor tr ry, sonactimes produce so vers on pedunctes as weli as on a scapus, of whicli I now have also instances in my garden ibi t