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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 Excerpt: ...egg-shaped, gradually diminishing, the uppermost spearshaped, and at length becoming a kind of flower-scales. Flowers nearly sitting, in small clusters from the sides of the stem and branches, at moderate intervals; but in plants whose main stem has been injured they sometimes appear solitary, but, on examination, the rudiments of others will be found at the base of each. Flower-fiales, one at the base of each flswer, the outermost eggshaped, taper-pointed, or spear-shaped, rather shorter than the flower; the inner ones spear-shaped, the length of the empal. Empal. segments spear-shaped, expanding, as soon as the blossom is fallen closing up, the upper one smaller than the rest. Blqfs. with a purplish ring round the mouth; ijinchdiameter; 2or3in bloom at once. Fruit-stalks horizontal, very short, seldom more than half. the length os the empalemcnt, the upper part os the outside and round the tube beset with hairs tipt with glands. Threads purplish on one side, and yellowish on the other; bearded with thread-like hairs club-shaped at the joints, which, in the upper one, aTe whitish, in the rest purple. Seed-bud beset with very short white hairs tipt with glass-shaped glands. St. Blattaria lutea major, Jive, Hijpanica. Far!: . 64, and par. 383.--Bkttaria lulea sol. long, laciniato altera cubitorum, 3, 4, 5, et plura vafada conjwicla habens. C. B. pin. 240.?--Blattaria magno fore. C. B. pin. 241. J. B. iii. 875. R. hist. 1096. Tourn. 148.--(Net Ger. em. 778. 5, cop. in J. B. iii. 875. 1, leaves too pointed.J Hedge banks, in gravelly foil. First shewn me by my late worthy friend Mr; Waldron Hill, of Worcester, in a field on the S. fide of a lane leading from Gregory's Mill to the turnpike road, Dear that town. The side of the turnpike road from Worcester to Ombe...

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