A Manual of Botany for the Northern States: Comprising Generic Descriptions of All Phenogamous and Cryptog Amous Plants to the North of Virginia, Hitherto Described; with References to the Natural Orders of Linneus and Jussieu

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1822 - 534 sider
 

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Side 4 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
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Side 10 - Kaimes, in his Elements of Criticism, has very properly observed, that " among " the many branches of education, that, which tends to make deep impressions of virtue, " ought to be a fundamental object in a well regulated government. For depravity of " manners will render ineffectual the most salutary laws ; and in the midst of opulence* " what other means to prevent such depravity, but early and virtuous discipline.
Side 4 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Side 128 - Capsules disposed in oblong fruit-dots, arranged along the margin of the frond; involucrum is formed by turning back the margin of the frond over the capsules, and it opens inward.
Side 102 - BRASSICA. Calyx erect, converging ; partition extending beyond the valves. of the silique : seed globose : glands between the short stamens and pistil, and between the long stamens and calyx.
Side 238 - In November and December of 1816, I saw hundreds of these plants sending out broad, thin, curved ice-crystals, about an inch in breadth from near the roots. These were melted away by day, and renewed every morning for more than twenty-five days in succession. P. 198, This has often been observed in the sand-plains two miles north of New Haven, Conn.
Side 93 - Calyx 5-parted ; divisions equal, sub-ovate ; corolla o-petaled; filaments often united at the base in 3 or 5 sets; styles 2 to 5 ; capsules membranaceous, roundish, with a number of cells equal to the number of styles. The bases of the filaments are often in groups, when they are not united.
Side 135 - Peristome very short; teeth 16, 32, or 64; mouth of the germ covered by a dry membrane, which is connected to it by the teeth of the peristome ; calyptra very small, with a large villose or hairy covering.
Side 69 - Calyx 5 to 10-parted, permanent; corolla bell or wheel-form, 5lobed, plaited; anthers thickened, partly united, with two pores at the top; berry containing many seeds, 2 to 6-celled.

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