Volume 1

Flora rustica: exhibiting ... figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Vol. I[-IV] / Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder ... With scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn.

  • Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825
Date:
1792-1794 [i.e. 1791-1795]
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Credit: Flora rustica: exhibiting ... figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Vol. I[-IV] / Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder ... With scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    combine to point out an affinity between thefe two fpecies and the Milium effujum. It is not uncommon in woods and hedges ; and flowers in May, or the beginning of June. The delicacy and flriking colour of the panicle, joined to its place of growth, readily diftinguifh this from all other Englifh grades*. It is fufficiently apparent that the Melic-grafles can never be an object of culture for meadows or paftures. i