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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NUNCULUS soliis ovato oblongis integerrimis, caule procumbente. FI. Lapp. 325. RA NUNCULUS eatile declinato soliis elliptico lanceolaiis subserratis. Hali. His. 1182 RA UNCULUS longi solius palustris minor M. Pin. 18 .RANUNCULUS sammeus minor. Ger. 844. A. q. the lesser spear Wori: also, Ranunculus sani- meus serrat, A. s. e c. p. 964. A. 2, 3. Resi S n. ed. s. p. 25o. the leser

RANUNCULUS palustris flammeus minor sive angustis olius. pars. TNm. p. 1214. RADIX perennis, fibrosa, fibris smplicibus, majusculis. CAULES pedales et ultra, suberecti, flexuosi, parum

compressi, subangulos, pubescentes, purpureo-virides, ramola, Rami breves, alterni, divaricati. FOLIA raclicalia ovato-lanceolata, utrinque acuta, longe petiolata, petiolo canaliculari poni presso ; caulina remota, oblongo lanceolata, brevius petiolata; petiolis basi dilatatis, vaginantibus: suprema et soralia linearia: omnia laevia, nunc integerrima, nunc plus minus dentata, dentibus obtusis, inaequalibus, callosis, subfuscis.

FLORES in caulium ramorumque summitate, savi. CALYX: Pp 14 ui 1 111 5-phyllum, soliolis ovatis, obtusas, villosius culis, concavis, lutescentib us deeiduis, A. i. COROLLA: Ppi ALA 5, calyce triplo longiora, rotundato subob cordata, patentra, parum concava,

sava, superne splentientia, ungue brevisimo,

NECTARIUM: λψeola in ungue cujusvis petati. STAMINA: Fi LAMEN: a plurima, ad so, Corolla

multo breviora : ANTAE AE ereciae, oblongae, didymae, saVae. PISI ILLUM: G preM1NA numerosa in capitulum collecta: STYLi nulli: STtGMATA reflexa,

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adopteti thos e names, and we see no good reason why they should be discontinued The

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The Imali si eam Vort is one os thola planis whi h is subject to great variation; DODONAE Us has ob erved, that Holland Tere it strows luxuriantly, it acquires the height os two cubiis; in the colit barrea solis of moun

creeping state aut hors have considered ii as a species; as si h L1NN Azus has adopted at under ille name orentans and Mr. Ibi GR Troo T fgured id on the frontis pie e to the seconii volume of the Flora Seotico; butvita ille one described, and the other figured ii as a species, they expressed their doubis os atabeing such .

Scopo L 1 also is of opinion that the n pons is no other than a variety, ansing frona soli and siluation. The leaves are usualty tooth d, especialty the upper ones; somelimes they may bo found entire, and stame- times more deel ly indented, or serraten on their edges; the variet y In this laiter state the old authors des rabe, and fgure as a species. Instinct raresy satis in directing gramini vorous animais to reject such herbs as Nould prove injurious to thora, lienee we seldom sirid this and hἴ other acrid species of Crow-Foot eaten by catile, hiat we know that under certain circumstanc M they Will somelimes err, and b come porsoneti or dileased GE R A RD says, this plantas called Bane ort by sonie, bicause it is dangerous and deadly sor sit epe, and that is they seede of the fame itinflameth their livers, fretieth and blis ereth their guta, and entralles: DODONAE Us front whom GERARD probablyborrows this a colant, reporis the fame, and that the plant inhes 1is name In the Notherland , froni ita premetous

effects on this harmi sis and ii iesul race: HALLEst quotes an author Le Nobis ludi p. 12. o says, that theli vers of horses which had sed on this ranunculus became rotten, and fuit os litile bl adders of water, as weli assinali animais resembling flounders; is the rot in theep be occasioned by their seeding on any particular plantand authors be not misi alien in at they say of this, none appears more lihely to occasion it than the presentone. Κin φ are sald D seed on it Uithout injury. Acrid as this Ranunculus is, and injurious as it may be to the larger animais, we observed on th sm os ast Joly, , 'oi s mali black larvae see ling on iis Hower buds and flamina, in illos e litile hand os delis on Barnes Common, where the water had been drieti up, and where grew fhtriete. Peph . - suspect they were the larvae offome coleopterous insese: and on the under fide os a leas os another plant of the fame species, we dis overeda estister os eo, s. sxtγ-sour in numher, deposited most probably by s me species of moth : tho leaves of this and of eQery other species os Ranunculus growing wild, or in cur gardens are yearly dis figured anti in somes ea sons dest 'ed by a very minute interculaneous larva or maggot, producing a s mali sty, which we havenamed Musa ranun Hy, and of whose his lory it is Our intention to sive an account eis where: we have repre sented one os ille leaves on the plant as it appears marked by this insect Mr Licu TFoo et informs us, that the R Ius Flammula is used in many paris os the hiolanda io rais hiis feres: sor this purpose, in the is land of Jura, and other paris oti the coasi, the leaves are weli brui sed in amoriar, and applied in one or more limpet illelis to the parti where the blislers are to be rai sed .

Boves autem licet magnam comedunt hujus copiam ab hac assici non observavi. Artigra.

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SCILLA AUTUMNALI s. AUTUMNAL SQUI L.

SCILLA istium fis soliis fili formibus linearibus, foribus corymbolis; pedunculis nudis adscendentibus longitudine foris. I iij. Si L Vegerus. ed. 14. Murr. p. 329. D. PI. 4 3. HYACINTHUS stellaris autumnalis minor. Baul. Pin. p. 47. et major ejus d. p. 46. HYACINTHUS autumnalis major et minor. Clui. His. a. p. 185. A. I, 2. Magn. Bol. II f. p. 1sq. HYACINTHUS autumnalis. Winter Hyacinth. autumnalis major. Great Winter Hyacinth. s. s. 98. f 3, 4. e c. a1 . . I, 2. HYACINTHUS autumnali; minor. The leger Autumn Jacinth Pari. Parad. s. Is 2 RADIX bulbus subrotundus, albidus, tunicatus, sapore sul, lulei, mucilaginosus, sbi illis albidis. FOLIA plurima, radicalia, linearia, scapo breviora,

glabra, interne canaliculata, externe Convexa, striata, recurva, obtusius uia.

SCAPUS subtriuncialis, erectus, i res, striato angulosus, ad lentem villosus, nudus, inferne ex albo- virescens, superne purpurascens. FLORES 5 ra racemos, e purpureo-caerulescentes. PEDUNCULI adserendentes, longitudine foris, ebrae-

tueati.

COROLLA: Psi ΛΕΛ sex, ovata, quorum tria paulo angustiora, obtususcula, apice callosa, e viridi fusca, A. a. STAMINA: F11 hupui Λ 6, purpurascentia, lata, subulata: ANTApsta subcordatae, magnae, primo saturate purpureae, emiso polline nigri cantes,

risI ILLUM: Gga M pu subovatum, caerulescens, lineis sex albidis impressis notatum: STYLustrigonus, trisulcatus, longitudine staminum: Silo M A simplex, IK. 3, PERICARPIUM: Chpsu 1 h sub rotunda, trivalvis, valia vis oWatis, concavis, disiepimento per medium divisis, maturato semine patentibus, A. 4. SEMINA sex, duo singulam valvam implentia, majus

cula, nigri cantia, nitidula, trigona, latere exteriore convexo, duobus interioribus planis,

PEDUNCI Es ascendi iam the lenph os the so ver,