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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GERA NIUM GERANIUM GERANIUM GERANIUM GERANIUM GERANIUM GERANIUMLi . PI, ,

palis appressis Velitu h djuresso foliis reni rinibus Palm si

Eramoso, soliis subrotundo lobatis, lobis trifidis, floribus minimi

pontandris caeruleis. anino Dis. p. 2 2. . 3. . . .

aut subrubentes, vix pubescentes, ramosa. I

FOLIA sub rotunda, septemffla, laciniis patentibus, tri- Isdis, obtusas; quibusdam profundius partitis, hs nubus acutius eulis: venosa, villosa, mollia, hpallide viridia: radicalia longissime petiolata: 0

caulina opposita, magnitudine inaequalia, loim vitudine pedunculis iubaequalia, laciniis aeuia Ytioribus. λsTIPUL E lanceolatae, basi latae, rubrae, nitentes, la- λciniis acutis. ciliatis. o FLORES minuti, purpureo coerulei. 0

PEDUNCULI sub tineiales, axillares, solitarii. histori. ρBRACTE E seu Involvera stipulis similia, modo bre- Lvi Ora. lCALYX ΡΕκ1ANT 1υM pentaphyllum, soliolis ovatis, qacutis, sursum pilosis, striatis, albo marginatis; sduobus exterioribus latioribus, Ig. 1. COROLLA calyce paulo major, campanulato-hians, tpetatis 5 obcordatis, emarginatis, A. a. lNECTARIUM: G1 hutui in s virides, cum petatis talternantes, fg. s. auci. STAMINA: F1LAMENTA decem germen cingentia, quorum quinque longiora, sertilia, quinquo alterna breviora, sterilia, Is . 4, 5. ANTHERAE quinque, sub vatae, caeruleae, fg. 6.

SEMINA solitaria; renis Ormia, glabra arillata, rufa ARILI 1 cata lati. pallide fusci, laeves, pilis o albis, longitudinaliter adpressis, obsiti, j g. 8. O

branched.

vide the sinus es rather acute: veiny, vilious,sost, pale green; the radices ones on very longlaoissaltis: the stathaeaves opposte, os anunequat sige, Dearly as long as the peduncles,

i heir lobes more acute.

BRACTEAE or Involvera like the stipulae, hui

Whilo some Bolanisls have eon unded this species With the muge atready fgured in this Worti, others havemista ρn it for the hi sti . from both os whicli it is speciscatly disserent: RΑY and VA1LLA υτ, among the older Bolani sis, appear to have had a perfectly clear idea os it, as is evident from the deseription os the one and the figure of the other: in the third edition os RAu's S no D, D1L1 putus has deseribed and figured a plantishici, he calis Granium eia statim stimih sore caeria o minimo; this plant vias frst adopted by L1Ns pus in his Syre. PDuror. under the nante os usuum, as appears frona his referring to this very figure, a name applicabieeuotio to Di 1 1 pNiusli plant as s ured by him, but not to RAu's and VAaLLANT's, whicli is the one here intended. Whether DiLLpsius plant be a sinted variet' os oura, or a distinct species, Me stati not isthe upontis hi present to determine : is the former, his sgure, lihe stat of his Cossium iereidistin δεια, has contributed si estis y io missead: is ille lalter, the nante os pusEum Mould appear to be a very proper one, and may at any time be male use of INo1with statiding there are strong reassens sor supposita, smin obserVations made in the latier Uorks os Lis unus, that our plant is his pusiatim, Me have thought a nante so very inapplicabie ought not to remain m astuml,ling bloch, and have theres ore substituted puro sortim, as coinciding with Rhu's deseription. Hauing citrea ly described this plant minutely, Me laesi only mention a sow of the sim ing characteri in .hiel, ii differs fro in the m D; in What respect at varies from res es of m, will be particularly specised Ulien weligure that plant. At shst fghi it differs si ora the res h. in having iis leaves more divided, os a pater and more Vello Q eolourii, blossonis uiueti s maller, of a bluer and less brilliant hue: more elos ely examined the Ralhq are seare percepti bly hairy, or but si Otly pubescent, the lemes in generas grow opposite, frequently not so towartas theiop of the stallis and are more oren bellind; the stamina bearing antherae are never more than sive and thearillus or coat of the seed, instead of being transversely Wrint led, as We have figured it in the m D is como inii Vely smooth : sor this lat ter distinction, Whach is a very essential one, a d incleed, I may say, sor the disco; ervos ille plant I am indebled to the superior discerninent of my much-ineemed and ingenious friend Alr DA VAL

oti the West side of London, particularly in the ne eo gardens, and fallo seliis about Litti Chelsea vitiere ille soli is light, this species is qui te a Weed; on the Eastern side, at least near the metropolis it is moreiar ely so und: In many paris of England It g equat ly common Mith the motae, than Whicli it ut allu sortiis

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CA REX VENTRICOs A. TURGID CARE X.

CAREX. Li . Gen. H. Mo Nog 1Λ TRIANDRIA. Mase. Amen dira imbricatum. Cui monophyllus. Cor. o. Fem. Amentiam imbricatum. GL monophyllus. Cor. o. MEI, insatum

tridentatum. Stigmaris tria. S . triquetrum intra nectarium. Raii S . Gen. 28. Hpas aAM1Nrpori AE NON CULMIFERAE FLORE IMPERFECTO s Eu

CAREx men ruina, spicis pedunculatis erectis, mascula solitaria, semineis remotis paucisoris, capsulis turgidis rostratis. CYPEROIDES nemorosum, caule exquisite triangulari, spieis parvis strigosis, inter se distantibus, squamis latis, derepente in arisam longiusculam attenuatis, capsulis rarius dispositis turbinatis gibbis trilateris cum rostrulo adunco. M ues. AMO. Gen. s 61. ML sq.

RADIX perennis, fibros a. CULMUs pedalis ad sesquipedalem, erectus, soliosus,

triqueter

FOLIA patulo-ρrecta, lineas duas lata, carinata, laevia, margine aspera, has vaginantia, sub sores

sPICA terminalis. solitaria, subuncialis, erecta, multi sora, ebracteata, subsus ea. CALYX: S υAMA subovata, acuminata, dorso viridi, lateribus ex albo et fusco variegatis, , . a. STAMINA: F11 Ausura tria, capillaria, calyce longiora. ANTHER E longae, lineares, Ag. 2.

SPICAE plerumque tres, remotiusculae, spica mascula dimidio breviores, oblongo-ovatae, subquadrisorae, pedunculatae, bratteatae. PEDUNCULicompressi, superne incrassati. B Ac TE E so liis similes, culmum superantes. CALYX: S UAM A lanceolata, acuta, dorso viridi, lateribus albis nitentibus, Ag. s. NECTARIUM oblongum, extus convexum, intus concavum, rostratum, pistillum arcte cingens, Ag. 4. PISI ILLUM: Ggaugu obovatum intra nectarium,

g. 5. STYIus germine duplo longior, Ig. 6.ST1GMATA tria, patentia villosa, Ig. 7. PERICARPIUM: C psu LA triquetro-gibba, turgida,

striata, utrinque acuta, rostro apice membra

Daceo, Ig. 8. SEMINA solitaria, magna, hine convexa, inde planius cula, ig. 9. intra nectarium. My much alued frien 3, the Rev. Dr. GO O pNouora os Ealing, has the merit os discovering the Carex heressured: we Uere herbari ing together, in Company with the Rev. Dr. WM 1 TF1ΕLD, in a finali viood at ille bachos Chariton Chureli, when a single plant of it sist caught his stye, and on surther search wρ sound it in one partos the wood in abundanee: Mi . Di cxson insorins me that he has observed the fame species grouing Mild near Godalming, surrey: and we are informed that it has also beeti s und by Mr. Sotis, os Bath. The late Rev tr. Litium posm, vilio had seen it growing with me, vias plea sed to cali it d a pristis, fremthe pauci ty os iis sowers, a name in whiel, we s metime acquiesced; biit, on maturer consideration, Me thi lithe name we have no v gi ven it more expressive of iis principat character. It assects the fame sit uation as the II to which. in iis solitae, it beati s me litile resemblance, but whetiit comes to thew iis seed vesseis it cannot eas ly be mistahen sor any other Britilli Carex. It so Nera cibo ut the lalter end of May, hut is most conspicuous toWards the middie of June, When iis seed