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 - 797 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-leaved 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 fleshy florets flowers flowers-calyx 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 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 tonic toothed umbels upper valves villose whorled
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Side 4 - The experience of nearly one hundred years has proved to every unprejudiced mind, that no system has appeared which can be compared with that of the immortal Swede (Linneus) for the facility with which it enables any one, hitherto unpractised in botany, to arrive at a knowledge of the genus and species of a plant.
Side 13 - The mucilaginous or gelatinous substance, which. in the spring of the year, abounds between the bark and the wood of trees. 5. Wood. The most solid part of the trunks and roots of herbs and trees.
Side 433 - M. £.) leaves and sheaths elongated: strobiles ovate-conic, rounded at the base, sub-solitary, about half as long as the leaves; scales dilated in the middle, unarmed.
Side 583 - ... shorter than the leaves: bracts subulate, minute: divisions of the calyx lanceolate: petals all very entire, veinless; upper one naked, glabrous: lateral ones bearded, and with the upper one, marked with a few blue lines; lower ones often becoming reddish outside,' spur short, gibbose, acutish: stigma pubescent, scarcely beaked.
Side 234 - Ju. 1[.) leaves serrate, uniformly green, wedge-lanceolate, with an acute base: scape corymbed: filaments glabrous. Both species are tonics and diuretics, and resemble in their effects the Arbutus uva-ursi.
Side 49 - Calyptre. — The cap or hood of pistillate mosses, resembling, in form and position, an extinguisher set on a candle. Conspicuous in the common haircap-moss.
Side 474 - WJ 21.) leaves heart-ovate, obtuse and acute, smooth; veins sub-pilose beneath, the sinus at the base dilated; petioles furrowed on the upper side, rounded at the edge. Radical leaves very large.
Side 102 - ... the seeds in extremely minute vertical cells. The shields are thick and tumid, when they are sessile: and membranous, when stalked or elevated. Very rarely they are perforated in the centre. Smith. • SHIELD-FORM. Shape resembling the ancient buckler, a broad-round, broad-oral, flat armor.
Side 57 - CRESTED, Having an elevated, irregular or notched ridge, resembling the crest of a helmet. This term is chiefly applied to seeds, and to the appendages of...
Side 581 - ... behind ; petals all very entire, veiny, white at the base; upper one generally naked, glabrous; lateral ones densely bearded, and with the upper one marked with a few blue lines ; spur elongated behind. A variety has the leaves more or leaves more or less villose. Dry. (Stemless...