AN

ARRANGEMENT

OF

BRITISH PLANTS.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

C. Baldwin, Printer,

New Bridge-street, London.

AN

ARRANGEMENT

OF

BRITISH PLANTS,

ACCORDING TO

THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS

OF THE

Linnean System;

WITH AN EASY

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF BOTANY. ILLUSTRATED BY COPPER PLATES.

BY WILLIAM WITHERING, M.D. F.R.S.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT LISBON; FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY AT EDINBURGH, &c.

THE SEVENTH EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES :

INCLUDING THE MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES, AND NUMEROUS ENLARGED ANNOTATIONS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE VEGETABLE ECONOMY.

BY WILLIAM WITHERING, Esq. LL.D. F.L.S.

EXTRAORDINARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, &c. &c. &c.

"Nor are the Plants, which Britain calls her own,
Few, or unlovely." MASON.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON; J. NUNN; LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN; T. CADELL; J. RICHARDSON; J. M. RICHARDSON; HATCHARD AND SON; R. SCHOLEY; P. W. AND G. WYNNE; S. BAGSTER; BALDWIN AND CRADOCK; HURST, CHANCE, AND CO.; HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.; WHITMORE AND FENN; WHITTAKER, TREACHER, AND CO.; J. DUNCAN; J. COCHRAN; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; W. MASON; G. COWIE AND CO.; T. BUMPUS; G. WILSON; T. AND W. BOORNE; J. DOWDING; W. J. AND J. MAYNARD; SMITH, ELDER, AND CO.; J. BAIN; E. HODGSON; HOULSTON AND SON; AND STIRLING AND KENNY, EDINBURGH; AND G. AND J. ROBINSON, LIVERPOOL.

1830.

"Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art,
In bed and curious knots, but Nature boon

Pour'd forth profuse, on hill, and dale, and plain."

MILTON.

"I cannot but think the very complacency and satisfaction which a man takes in these works of Nature, to be a laudable, if not a virtuous habit of mind." ADDISON.

CLASS I.

MONANDRIA.

MONOGYNIA.

(1) (Seeds several. E.)

CHA RA. (Berry with many seeds. Style none. E) *

[Salix monandra.]

(2) (Seed one. E.)

HIPPURIS. Calyx none. Blossom none.

SALICORNIA. Cal. one leaf, four-cornered, lopped, tumid. Bloss. none. (Seed included in the calyx. E.)

[Valeriana rubra, Alchemilla arvensis, Ophrys spiralis, & ovata.]

DIGYNIA.

CALLIT RICHE. Cal. none. Bloss. two petals. Capsule two-celled.

Barren Flower. Cal. none.

Bloss. none.

Fertile Flower. Cal. one leaf. Bloss. none. Seeds four.

(In vol. i. will be found the more detailed generic description, according to the views of a majority of older authors. We here briefly introduce a character drawn from the observation of recent writers, that "the anther and pistil are mostly found together, rarely on separate plants; so that the genus is not monoecious, though in one or two instances, occasionally dioecious." Sm. E.)