A Popular Description of the Indigenous Plants of Lanarkshire: With An ...
A Popular Description of the Indigenous Plants of Lanarkshire: With An ...
William Patrick
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Offici- nale. Western Tower of Both well i astle. Stem I — 2 feet high, jound, upright, r>en/ «it^^ branched, covered with rigid, appressed liairs; leaves nearly sessile, broad, lanceo^ late^ veined^ pointedy — above dark, green, very rough — below, paler, kairy^ as long as the caljrx. Nuts smooth^ highly polished, whitish brown, bArd as stones — hence t he generic name, from Litflos a stone^ and Spe&ma grain. Seeds a powerful diuretic. June. Species II. Com GromweUy L. Arvense. Fields about Bo...gle's hole. This specieis has rough wrinkled nuts — the tube of the while or whitish yellow blossom is a little longer than^ the calyx> the segments of whicfi expand when in fruit. Stem erect, branched above, rough ; leaves sessile, lanceolate acute, xfeitUess* narrowed at the base, rough, hairy, rigid, rather -fringed ; calyx segments thriee as long as the fruit. The bark abounds with a deep red dye, which stains paper and linen, and is easily communicated to oil. In Sweden, the juice of the root is used on days of festivity to stain the face.
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