Description | Botanical study of Vernonia noveboracensis. A specimen of this plant is pictured in fig. 342 / t. 243 (p.355) of 'Hortus Elthamensis' volume 2 (1732) by Johann Jakob Dillenius, which contains descriptions and drawings of plants in the Sherard Garden at Eltham.
Plant showing purple flowers open and in bud, with brown and green leaves. Inscribed in ink 'Serratula Noveborascensis maxima, foliis longis serratis Hort. Elth.' Not signed. |