Identifier: englishbotanyorc07sowe (find matches)
Title: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 Boswell, John T. (John Thomas), 1822-1888 Lankester, Mrs. (Phebe), 1825-1900 Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871 Salter, John William, 1820-1869 Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870
Subjects: Plants Plants
Publisher: London : R. Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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g among Rubus cfesius and Nepeta Gle-choma, in Avoods on the western side of a small valley between Apes-down and Rowledge farms, rather less than 3 miles W.S.W. ofNewport, Isle of Wight. Discovered by the late Dr. Bromfieldin 1843. England. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. This plant is very near C. menthifolia: but the rootstock is more dis-tinctly creeping; the stems less branched, with more spreading l:)ranc)ies;the leaves larger, more o^ate, more deeply and sharply toothed,and with shorter petioles; cymes more distant and more lax, more dis-tinctly forked, with longer peduncles; calyx more narrowed towardsthe base, the upper teeth more abruptly rellexed; corolla much larger,^ to 1 inch long, purplish rose, variegated \v\i\\ white on the lowerlip, which has broader lobes; nucules broader and smoother. In both this and tlie preceding species short stolons are emitted inautumn, which take root at the base. Wood Calamint. French, Calament des Bois. German, GchmucUiche Calaminthe. MLn.
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E. L\ S. 2897. Cakmintha sylratica. Wood Calamint. (J MLin.

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