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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
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y enlarging in fruit, nearly regulai, not bila-biate ; limb ascending or at length spreading, of 5 teeth, spinous-pointed, often with 5 smaller intermediate ones. Corolla bilabiate ;tube short; upper lip erect, nearly flat, entire or shortly bitid, usuallylonger than the lower; lower lijj spreading, 3-cleft, middle lobebroader, notched. Stamens 4; filaments subparallel under the upperside of the corolla-tube, but not reaching to the upper lip; anther-cellsjoined at the apex and divergent in a straight line, opening by acommon longitudinal slit. Nucules abruptly truncate at the apex. Herbs often woolly, with rugose leaves, which are usually roundedor wedgeshaped at the base, mostly serrate. Bracts similar to theleaves, Verticillasters many-flowered, often spherical, with subulateherbaceous bracts. This genus of plants, according to one author, is named from a town in Italy whereit abounds. Another gives us the words mam, bitter, and ruhe, a Celtic name for aroot, as the origin. MLXIir.
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E. n. (j3i McHctis Melissophyllura (gracdiflora). Bastard Balm. MLXIV.

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