Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific Descriptions of the Indigenous Plants and Common Cultivated Exotics, Growing North of the Gulf of MexicoOliver Steele, 1836 - 672 sider |
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Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific ... Amos Eaton Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific ... Amos Eaton Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific ... Amos Eaton Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
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1-celled 1-flowered 2-valved 3-lobed 3-nerved 3-sided 5-cleft 5-parted acuminate acute anthers apex apothecia awned axillary base beneath berry bracts branches calyx capsule cauline ciliate compressed cordate corol corymbed crenate culm cylindric disk divisions egret elongated entire Exotic few-flowered filaments filiform flat fleshy florets flowers frond fruit germ glabrous glaucous globose glumes hairy hirsute hispid imbricate involucre lance-oblong lance-ovate leaf leafets leafy leaves lance-linear leaves lanceolate leaves linear leaves oblong leaves ovate leaves ternate legumes lobes many-flowered many-seeded margin membranaceous mucronate naked nectary nerved obovate obtuse oval panicle pedicels peduncles peristome petals petioled pileus pilose pinnate pinnatifid pistillate plants pubescent racemes radical leaves receptacle root roundish scabrous scales scape seeds serrate sessile short shorter silicles slender smooth solitary Southern species spikelets spikes spreading stamens stem erect stem simple stigma stipe stipules style sub-sessile subulate terete terminal ternate toothed umbels upper valves villose whorled
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Side 15 - Cyme resembles an umbel in having its common stalks all spring from one centre, but differs in having those stalks irregularly subdivided; as, the Snow-ball and Elder.
Side 498 - SALICOR'NIA. 29. Chen. asc. cath — . herbacea. (samphire, glasswort. L. Au. <J>.) herbaceous, spreading: joints compressed at the apex, emarginale-bifid. Var. uirginica, has the branches undivided, and the jointed spikes very long. The fructification is very obscure, but it may be known by its leafless nearly cylindric jointed branches. It grows in salt marshes along the seaboard.
Side 586 - ... calyx lanceolate; petals all very entire, veinless; upper one naked, glabrous lateral ones bearded, and with...
Side 356 - T}.) leaves in threes, petioled, oblong, obtuse, sometimes rusty beneath: corymbs lateral: bracts linear: peduncles and calyx with glandular hairs. Var. ovata, taller, leaves broader, sub-ovate.
Side 20 - ... and in short all the tribes of Mucor and Mucedo. In some of these the joints disarticulate, and appear to be capable of reproduction ; in others spores collect in the terminal joints, and are finally dispersed by the rupture of the cellule that contained them. In a higher state of composition Fungi are masses of cellular tissue of a determinate figure, the whole centre of which consists of spores attached, often four together, to the cellular...
Side 123 - Having a shrivelled and decaying appearance, though not actually in a state of decay; as the flowers of elm, (ulmus.) See Marcessant. WOOD. The most solid part of trunks and roots of trees and shrubs. It is also applied to the part of herbaceous plants between the bark and pith. The concentric layers of the wood and bark are the reverse of each other; the former increasing externally, the latter internally. The former having a zone of cellular tissue inside, and of woody fibre and ducts outside;...
Side 452 - Ap. £.) leaves glabrous both sides, acuminate, serrate, deltoid, the breadth equal to, or exceeding the length: branches erect, close to the stem. It is said no pistillate plant of this species has been brought to America. Consequently no seeds are obtained from it, and it has not been reproduced here from seed.
Side 183 - Ju. %.) leaves oblong, 3-nerved, narrow and acute at the base; upper ones sessile, sub-entire; lower ones petioled, serrate; stem simple, corymbed at the top ; calyx cylindric, scurfy ; rays 5, very short. About 12 inches high ; flowers small.
Side 176 - Gr. sparasso, to tear, on account of the strong prickles, with which some of the species are armed. Asphodelus. Gr.
Side 208 - M. £>.) segments of the calyx lanceolate: leaves oblong or oval, gradually acuminate, somewhat rugose, smooth and green on both sides: branches straight, erect.