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T U R R I T I S hirfuta.
H airy Tow er-M ujlard.
TETRAD YNA MIA Siliquofa.
G en. Char. Pod very long, ftraight, fomewhat angular.
Cal. clofed, eredt. Cor. eredt.
Spec. Char. Leaves all rough. Stem hairy, the hairs
Ample and fpreading. Pod quadrangular.’
Syn. Turritis hirfuta. Linn. Sp. PI. 930. Hudf. 291.
With. 589. Relb. 254. Sibth. 204. Dick/. Id.
Sicc.fafc. 9. 8.
T . muralis minor. Raii Syn. 294.
S e N T from near Bury by W. Matthew, Efq; and by Lord
Vifc. Lewifham from an old wall at the foot of St. Vincent’s
rocks, Briftol. It has been found in feveral other parts of
Great Britain, but is by no means common. It flowers in
May.
Root ftrong, woody, and perennial. Stems generally feveral,
one of which is much ftronger than the reft, ereCt, a foot
high, leafy, branched, round, clothed with thick-fet, Ample,
prominent hairs; the upper part and flowering branches are
fmooth. Leaves toothed, all more or lefs hairy; the radical
ones flender at the bafe; thofe on the ftem feffile, or partly
embracing it. Flowers fmall, white. Pods numerous, forming
a very long fpike, erect, narrow, linear, comprefled, but
with 4 angles, fmooth and fomewhat fhining, beaded as it
were by the projecting feeds, rather blunt at the top, and
crowned with the almoft feflile ftigma.
Linnaeus originally confounded with this, not only Turritis
alpina of his Syjl. Reg. which has all the leaves (as far as I
can difcover) fmooth, but alfo T. hirfuta of Gerard’s Flora
Galloprovincialis, which has perfectly flat pods without any
lateral angles, and the hairs on its ftem deprefled and forked*
as are all thofe on its leaves; which in the proper T. hirfuta
are for the moft part Ample. I would not however lay too
much ftrefs on this circumftanee, as in the genus of Hedypnois
it is proved to be fallacious. This laft mentioned Turritis
flowers a month earlier. I received it from Switzerland by
means of my much lamented friend Mr. Davall.