Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 1055 - Phalangium ramosum (Branching Spider-Wort) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 1055, Phalangium ramosum (Branching Spider-Wort).

• Plate: 1055
• Latin name: Phalangium ramosum
• Common name: Branching Spider-Wort
• Native region: Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and France
• Flowering: June and July
• Linnaean class / order: Hexandria / Monogynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 1055 ]

PHALANGIUM RAMOSUM. BRANCHING SPIDER-WORT.

. . .

Class and Order.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
—Vide No. 914.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
PHALANGIUM ramofum; foliis gramineis, longe fubulatis, plano-canaliculatis; caule paniculatim ramoso; racemis remotifculis; corolla explanato-patente; laciniis intimis duplo latioribus, obtufifimis et fæpius undulatis; ftaminibus divergenter porrectis. G. PHALANGIUM ramofum. Lam. et Decand. Flor. Franc. 3. 210. ANTHERICUM ramofum. Scop. Carn. n. 413. Jacq. Auftr. tab. 161. Zorn. Ic. 215. Hort. Kew. 1. 447. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 138. Pollich. Palat. 1. p. 333. ANTHERICUM foliis planis, corollis planis deciduis. It. Gotl. 178. Flor. Suec. 267, 289. PHALANGIUM Hall. Helv. n. 1208. ANTHERICUM caulibus ramofis, foliis planis. Guett. Stamp. 129. PHALANGIUM ramofum. Dodon. Pempt. 106. Besl. Hort. Eyft. 7. Ord. Vern. t. 1. f. 2. PHALANGIUM parvo flore ramofum. Bauh. Pin. 29. Lob. Ic. 47. A native of Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and France. Cultivated with us ever since 1597. Perfectly hardy and common. We need add no further description to the many already given; but as the root has been described as "round," we must observe, that it is "fasciculately fibrous," as usual in this genus; the leaves have also been called "flat," but they in fact are more or less "channelled and carinate;" the piltil is termed "straight" by some, yet is somewhat "declined and affurgent, or curved upwards." The pedicles or branchlets are about the length of the diameter of the corolla, and are near the base obscurely jointed, as in PHALANGIUM Liliago; a circumftance we have never found noticed. Blooms about June and July. G.

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