Common field scabious
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p35
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of common field scabious (Scabiosa major communior folio laciniato) with flower details. Signed ‘Ric: Waller pinx[it]’ (Richard Waller painted this). Unlike on his other drawings, Waller did not record the reference to John Ray’s Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum (London, 1690), though this plant is listed at p. 59, no.1. In the middle, Waller adds further description of the plant.
Transcription
45. Scabiosa major communior folio laciniato. I.B. Major vulg. G. Vulg. Pratensis P.
Common field scallions.
Flore composito e fistulosis difformibus flosculis colore molochino. Seminibus solidis. Foliis laciniatis altius, late viridibus. Cum caule cavo hirsutis, pilis deorsum spectantibus. Radice unâ penetrante fibris donatâ. Calyce semen coronante hirusto.
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Common field scallions.
Flore composito e fistulosis difformibus flosculis colore molochino. Seminibus solidis. Foliis laciniatis altius, late viridibus. Cum caule cavo hirsutis, pilis deorsum spectantibus. Radice unâ penetrante fibris donatâ. Calyce semen coronante hirusto.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Richard Waller’s signed watercolour study of English grasses, made between 1689 and 1713. For further details, see the description at MS/131/004.
Related fellows
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Associated place