Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall / With notices of their botanical contemporaries. By William Darlington.

  • William Darlington
Date:
1849
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Credit: Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall / With notices of their botanical contemporaries. By William Darlington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Peric. nullum. Fructus globosus echinatus, dissiliens in SEMINA quatuor aut quinque; hine convexa, echinata spinis hamatis, inde angulata. Facies Triumfette et Urene ; sed diversissima planta.* COLDENIA. Teucrii facie bisnagarica tetracoccos rostrata, pilis scatens, foliis profunde venosis. Plukn. Alm. p. 363, tab. 64, fig. 6. Cau. Perianthium tetraphyllun, foliolis lanceolatis erectis. Cor. monopetala infundibuliformis, longitudine calycis; limbo patulo obtuso equali quadrifido. Stam. Milamenta quatuor, tubo corolle inserta. -Antherw sub- rotunde. is Pist. Germina quatuor ovata. Styli totidem capillares, longitu- dine staminum. Stigmata simplicia persistentia. PrRic. nullum. Fructus ovatus scaber compressus, rostris quatuor. SEM. quatuor acuminata, hinc convexa, scabra, inde angulata. Facies Neurade, sed diversissima planta. Pray, when you write to that learned gentleman, send to him a copy of this character, and acquaint him that I, with great plea- sure, perceived by your letter that my pakket is come to his hands; but that Iam extremely sorry that his things for me were taken by the privateers. Pray acquaint me in your next, how it goes with your learned newly erected Society, and what improvements they have made. This is all, dear sir, what I could perform since the 19 of May, being now obliged by the departure of my dear friend, Doctor Dunpas, to finish these; wishing you and all friends health and prosperity, wherewith I remain ; Your most obedient servant, JOHANNES FREDERICUS GRONOVIUS. Leyden, 2 Juny, 1746. * This plant, on which it was then proposed to establish the genus Bartramia, was finally referred to Triumfetta, of Plum. and Linn. It is now the Triumfetta angulata, Lam. Dict. DC. Prodr..1, p. 507; T. Bartramia, L. (partly); Willd. sp. pl. 2, p. 854; Lappago Amboinica, Rumph. Amb. 6, p. 59; Bartramia, Lam, Il. tab. 400, f. 2; B. Lappago, Gaertn. Fruct., tab. 111. The name was afterwards (1789) given, by Hzpwia, to a genus of humble Mosses. —