Popular field botany; containing a familiar and technical description of the plants most common to the various localities of the British Isles, adapted to the study of either the artificial or natural systems . Mjosotis paliistris Mtky. Adoxa Moscliatellma , ijvnn. ^eeve . et imp APRIL. 83 vation of the young botanist. The following may moreeasily be added to the collection. Fedia olitoeia. (Plate lY. Fig. 13.) Corn-salad, orLambs Lettuce. Flowers in heads, pale blue or lilac_, andvery small, with narrow bracteas. Seed-vessel nearly glo-bular, crowned with the tlu-ee teeth of the calyx,
Popular field botany; containing a familiar and technical description of the plants most common to the various localities of the British Isles, adapted to the study of either the artificial or natural systems . Mjosotis paliistris Mtky. Adoxa Moscliatellma , ijvnn. ^eeve . et imp APRIL. 83 vation of the young botanist. The following may moreeasily be added to the collection. Fedia olitoeia. (Plate lY. Fig. 13.) Corn-salad, orLambs Lettuce. Flowers in heads, pale blue or lilac_, andvery small, with narrow bracteas. Seed-vessel nearly glo-bular, crowned with the tlu-ee teeth of the calyx, one beinglarger than the others. Stem about six inches high, muchdivided into forked branches, furrowed. Lower leavestongue-shaped, stalked, stem-leaves having no stalks, obtuse,sometimes a little toothed. It is a small, insignificant plant,growing in corn-fields and amongst rubbish. Eathercommon. It was formerly much eaten as a salad, dressedin the same manner as our salads at the present day. Fedia dentata. Smooth-fruited Corn salad. This spe-cies resembles the last in general appearance, but differs inmany minute respects. Seed-vessel egg-shaped, and crownedwith the four-toothed calyx. Flowers flesh-coloured inloose bunches,
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