Identifier: englishbotanyorc07sowe (find matches)
Title: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 Boswell, John T. (John Thomas), 1822-1888 Lankester, Mrs. (Phebe), 1825-1900 Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871 Salter, John William, 1820-1869 Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870
Subjects: Plants Plants
Publisher: London : R. Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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adical leaves oval or ovate-oval, the exterior ones abruptly con-tracted at the base into the broadly winged petiole, the inner onesmore gradually attenuated; all somewhat abruptly acuminated andacute at the apex, marked on the upper surface with blotches and specksof greenish-white, the larger blotches sometimes slightly confluent;lower stem leaves oval, abruptly attenuated into the indistinct petiole ;uppermost ones oval-ovate, sessile, slightly decurrent. Corolla tubeelabrous within below the circle of hairs in the throat. Ilant rathersoftly pubescent, none of the hairs glandular, but those on the stemand mature radical leaves slightly vulnerant. In woods and hedge-banks, but possessing little claim to ha considerednative, though occurrmg in many places in England and the south ofScotland. (England, Scotland.) Perennial. Spring. Early Summer. Very similar to P. angustifolia, of which some authors consider itmerely a variety. The leaves, however, are always broader, the stems Mxcvm.
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Palmonaria officinalis. Common Lungwort. MXCIX.

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