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URSWICK, CHRISTOPHER (1448-1522) , English diplomatist, was born at Furness in Lancashire and was probably educated at Cambridge . He became chaplain to Margaret, countess of Richmond and Derby, and was employed by her to forward the schemes for securing the English throne for her son, Henry of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII. He crossed from Harfleur to Wales with Henry in August 1485, and was present at thebattle of Bosworth; then followed for him a series of ecclesiastical preferments, the most important of which was to the deanery of York
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See Urswick, Records of the Family of Urwick or Urswick (1893). URTICACEAE (nettle family), in botany, an order of Dicotyledons belonging to the series Urticiflorae, which includes also Ulmaceae (elm family), Moraceae (mulberry, fig, &c.) and Cannabinaceae (hemp and hop). It contains 41 genera, with about 50o species, mainly tropical, though several species such as the common stinging nettle ((lrtica dioica) are widely distributed and occur in large numbers in temperate climates. Two genera are represented in, the British Isles, Urtica (see NETTLE) and Parietaria (pellitory, q.v.).The plants are generally herbs or somewhat shrubby, rarely, as in some tropical genera, forming a bush
From Vines's Students' Text-Book of Botany, by permission of Swan Sonnenschein & Co. stem are generally long and firmly attached end to end, and hence cf great value for textile use. Thus in ramie (q.v., Boehmeria nivea) a single fibre may reach nearly 9 in. in length, and in stinging nettle as much as 3 in. The small inconspicuous regular flowers
into head-like clusters. They are unisexual and monoecious or dioecious. The four or five green perianth leaves (or sepals) are free or more or less united; the male flowers
1, male flower; 2, female flower in fruiting stagethe 'dry compressed fruit 3 escaping from the persistent perianth; 4, fruit cut open, revealing the seed within the large straight embryo e. 1, 2, 3, enlarged. stage, but when mature spring backwards and outwards, the anther at the same time exploding and scattering the pollen. The flowers are thus adapted for wind-pollination. The female flower contains one carpel bearing one style with a brush-like stigma and containing a single erect ovule. The fruit is dry and one-seeded; it is often enclosed within the persistent perianth. The straight embryo is surrounded by a rich oily endosperm.End of Article: URSWICK, CHRISTOPHER (1448-1522) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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