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ROBERT MORISON AND JOHN RAY
- Spicate Herbs (a curious medley, including Dipsacus, Eryngium, Echinops, Agrimonia, Circaea, Poterium Sanguisorba, Polygonum Persicaria, Trifolium stellatum, T. arvense, and Potamogeton angustifolium).
- Herbs bearing Many Seeds together in a Cluster or Button (e.g. Geum, Potentilla, Anemone, Ranunculus, Adonis, Malva).
Herbs considered according to their Seed-vessel:
- Of a divided Seed-vessel, which may be called Corniculate (Paeonia, Dictamnus, Delphinium, Aquilegia, Aconitum, Geranium, Scandix).
- Of an entire Seed-vessel:
- Siliquous:
Papilionaceous Climbing Herbs } (Papilionaceae). Papilionaceous Herbs not Climbing
- Not papilionaceous (mostly Cruciferae).
- Capsulate:
- bearing Flowers of Five Leaves (Caryophyllaceae, Hypericaceae, Euphorbia, Linum, Lysimachia, Ruta, Nigella).
- whose flowers consist of three or four Leaves (some Cruciferae, Epimedium, Papaver, Verbena, Statice, Veronica).
- Campanulate Herbs:
- climbing (most Cucurbitaceae and Convolvulaceae):
- erect (Campanulaceae, some Solanaceae, Digitalis).
- Not campanulate (Primulaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Acanthaceae, Aristolochia, Vinca).
- Bacciferous herbs: may be distinguished according to their Qualities:
- Esculent fruit:
- more pleasant (Strawberry),
- less pleasant (Tomato).
- Esculent root (Potato):
- Malignant:
- of simple leaves (Nightshade, Mandrake),
- of compound leaves (Herb Christopher, Paris).
- Esculent fruit:
- Or Manner of Growth:
- being climbers (Bryonia, Tamus, Smilax):
- not climbers (Physalis Alkekengi, Cucubalus, Sambucus Ebulus).
OF SHRUBS.
I. | Bacciferous Spinous Shrubs of Deciduous Leaves
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II. | Bacciferous Shrubs of Deciduous Leaves, not Spinous
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III. | Bacciferous Sempervirent Shrubs
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IV. | Siliquous Shrubs
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