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 sivua |
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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 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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Sivu 588 - ... calyx lanceolate; petals all very entire, veinless; upper one naked, glabrous lateral ones bearded, and with...
Sivu 446 - Q) stem terminated with 2 peltate palmate leaves ; flower single, inserted in the fork, formed by the petioles of the leaves. Sometimes the plant is three leaved, and sometimes the flower is inserted on the side of one of the petioles.
Sivu 21 - Lichens by their more fugitive nature, their more succulent texture, their want of thallus or expansion independent of the part that bears the reproductive matter, and by the latter being contained within their substance and not in hard distinct nuclei originating in the centre and breaking through a cortical layer. From Algae there is no absolute character of division, except their never growing in water. In fact it is...
Sivu 101 - It differs from pinnate, in being a simple leaf, deeply parted, while pinnate is a compound of distinct leafets. Pistil. The central organ of most flowers, consisting of the germ style, and stigma.
Sivu 588 - ... emarginate behind ; petals all white at the base, veinless, very entire very glabrous, naked ; upper one truncate, and marked with a few very blue lines Bometimes obsolete.
Sivu 23 - Confervas ; but as soon as the humidity diminishes, the under part dies, and an inert leprous crust is formed, which ultimately becomes the basis of the plant. Hence...
Sivu 23 - This consists of a single fibre, or of two, twisted spirally in different directions, so as to cross each other, and contained within a very delicate, transparent, perishable tube. They have a strong elastic force, and have been supposed to be destined to aid in the dispersion of the sporules, — a most inadequate end for so curious and unusual an apparatus.
Sivu 181 - ... longer than the disk. In rich soil it grows 10 feet high: flowers large.
Sivu 59 - 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.
Sivu 22 - ... the most material of which are the following : they grow with a degree of rapidity unknown in other plants, acquiring the volume of many inches in the space of a night, and are frequently meteoric, that is, spring up after storms, or only in particular states of the atmosphere.