Common groundsel or simson
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p37
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of common groundsel or simson (Senecio vulgaris) with flower detail. 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. 50, no. 1. Waller adds further information in the middle of the plant.
Transcription
48. Senecio vulgaris. Park. minor vulg. C.B. vulg. sive Erigeron. I.B. Erigeron Ger.
Common Groundsel or Simson.
Radice alba plurimis fibris donatâ; caule erecto, ramoso, concavo, glabro, pallidé
viridi: Folijs laciniatis late viridibus. FLoribus nudis, compositis e flosculis pentapetaloidibus, stylo bifido instructis. Seminibus Papposis ubique proveniens.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Common Groundsel or Simson.
Radice alba plurimis fibris donatâ; caule erecto, ramoso, concavo, glabro, pallidé
viridi: Folijs laciniatis late viridibus. FLoribus nudis, compositis e flosculis pentapetaloidibus, stylo bifido instructis. Seminibus Papposis ubique proveniens.
Ric: Waller pinx.
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