A volume of Letters From Dr Berkenhout to His Son At the University
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Fl owers on loofe leafy panicles, is the ^be/ium Unophyllum, of which, as a rare plant, Relhan has given a plate. Its Englifh name is baftard Toadflax. YOU will will find, it has no corolla; the flower* confiding of a calyx only, into which the fazftamina are inferted. Not far from us, I perceive another fcarce plant, of which my friend Relhan has given a plate and an accurate defcription, in his excellent Flora Gantabrigienfis* 1 mean that diminutive chap, about five inches high, with a yellow... ftar-flower. It is the Cineraria al- pina, or Mountain Ragwort. There are fome doubts about the proper genus of this herb; but Linmeus has declared that it is a Proteus of a plant. It is of the Clafs and Order, Syngenefia Polygamla fuperflua. The . Flowers, you obferve, grow in a loofe irre- gular kind of umbel, and the leaves on the ftem are lance-foaped, woolly, and very ereft. It is now time to defcend the Hills, jamfumma procul villarum culmlnafumanty Majorefque cadunt alth de montibus umbra* Our rout lies through Cherry Hinton, a village celebrated in the annals of Botany, by having been the fcene of our indefatiga- ble Ray's frequent herbarizationsj particu- larly in a field called the Chalk-fit cbfe> where Rel- ( 286 ) Relhan firft fhewed me the Athamanta liba* notis-, a fcarce plant, which, fmce the time of Ray, had been entirely loft.
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