Volume 1

Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke.

  • Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.
Date:
1810-1823
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Credit: Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PLANTS COLLECTED AT INEADA IN TURKEY. (.Alteration and Addition in Chap. XXV. p. 662. line 11. introduced in the Second Edition.) ... When we landed, we found the earth still covered with chap. xxv. flowers at this advanced season of the year: many of these plants. were unknown to us. We collected five new species among the shrubs upon the northern side of the harbour, towards the point of the promontory; a new species of Senecio, of Figwort, of Convolvulus, of Ruscus, and of Rubus. The description of them is given in a Note; together with the list of others, whe¬ ther common or rare, that were here added to our herbary1 II. III.. It (l) I. A fine species of Senecio, hitherto undescribed, with the general habit of an Aster, excepting the foliage ; the flowers solitary, about an inch broad, in long scaly pedun¬ cles; the leaves unequally pinnatified, with the terminal lobe lanceolate. We have called it Senecio flexuosa. Senecio corollce radiis plurimis, patentilus, majusculis; squamis calycinis adpressis; foliis lyrato-pinnatifidis laciniis integerrimis glabriusculis, planis; caulibus striatis pilosis; pedunculis elongatis, multibracteatis, Jlexuosis, unijloris. II. A new species of Figwort, having much of the general habit of Scrophularia appen- diculata ; but differing, by the exhibition of leaves sharply toothed at the base, finely ciliated, and perforated with innumerable transparent spots; being also without appendages; the peduncles and bracts, viscous and downy; and the flowers also shorter and broader than in the species mentioned. We have called it Scrophularia glandulifera. Scrophularia racemo terminal composito; folds subcordato-ovatis, lato-dentatis, minute punctatis, Iasi incequalibus; petiolis pilis glanduliferis pubeseentibus. III. A new shrubby species of Convolvulus, about two feet in height; the branches hairy and spreading, and, for the greater part of their length, without leaves; the leaves about an inch long; the calyx hairy, about a third part the length of the corolla. This species most resembles the Convolvulus suffruticosus of Professor Desfontaines, but differs in having the flowers not placed upon long peduncles with linear opposite bracts, but at the ends of the branches, and the corolla hairy. We have called it CoNVOL-