Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany [J.J. Rousseau] / By Thomas Martyn.

  • Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany [J.J. Rousseau] / By Thomas Martyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £*LATE iV. LETTER iV. RINGENT FLOWERS^ Fig. I. Lamium album. White Dead iSfettle^ a Part of a whorl of flowers^ fliowing how they grow in the bofom of a leaf. b A fingle flower, fliowlng the ftrufture of a labiate or ringent corolla, and of that of the -Lamium in particular. c The corolla cut away, in order to fhow more diftindllj the fituatlon of the ftameiis and the claffical chara6ler. d The germs, with the ftyle. € The calyx, with the four feeds within it.4 Fig. 2. Antirrhinum majUs^ Snapdragon. a The clofed ringent, or perfonate corolla, in its natural form. b The corolla opened, to (how the fituatlon of the ftamens. c The capfule, with the permanent flyle and calyx. B 4