Lucerne dodder
Date
1868
Creator
John Frederick Crouch (1809 - 1888, British) , Botanist
Object type
Library reference
Woolhope Transactions_1868_pp122-123
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 138mm
width (print): 138mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the invasive plant Cuscuta, the Lucerne dodder, here named Cuscuta hassiaca – Pfieff, with three details of its flowers. Cuscuta is a parasite of the agriculturally important crop Alfafa, Medicago sativa, also known as Lucerne.
Plate at pp.122/123 with an accompanying description [by James Frederick Crouch] published in the Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.121-122.
The accompanying text states that: ‘The Rev. J.F.Crouch of Pembridge, brought to the meeting a box full of specimens of a very elegant and sweet-scented Cuscuta…the attention of the Rev. J.F.Crouch was drawn to it by W.Langston Esq., M.R.C.S., in whose field at Marston, in the parish of Pembridge, it was growing plentifully on Lucern. The Lucern was raised from seed purchased in, and was probably foreign growth. The Illustration...is very kindly presented to the Club by Mr. Crouch.
Not signed by artist or printer. Inscribed below: ‘CUSCUTA HASSIACA. – Pfieff. The Lucern Dodder.’
James Frederick Crouch (1809-1888), Rector of Pembridge in Herefordshire, was a Member of the Botanical Society of London.
Plate at pp.122/123 with an accompanying description [by James Frederick Crouch] published in the Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.121-122.
The accompanying text states that: ‘The Rev. J.F.Crouch of Pembridge, brought to the meeting a box full of specimens of a very elegant and sweet-scented Cuscuta…the attention of the Rev. J.F.Crouch was drawn to it by W.Langston Esq., M.R.C.S., in whose field at Marston, in the parish of Pembridge, it was growing plentifully on Lucern. The Lucern was raised from seed purchased in, and was probably foreign growth. The Illustration...is very kindly presented to the Club by Mr. Crouch.
Not signed by artist or printer. Inscribed below: ‘CUSCUTA HASSIACA. – Pfieff. The Lucern Dodder.’
James Frederick Crouch (1809-1888), Rector of Pembridge in Herefordshire, was a Member of the Botanical Society of London.
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