A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants

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Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1835 - 407 sivua
 

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Sivu 32 - IT is unnecessary to enumerate all the advantages resulting from the possession of a collection of preserved plants, as they can be fully appreciated only by a person who has made considerable progress in the study of Botany. But the beginner requires to be informed, that nothing can more materially aid him in his endeavours to become familiar with the objects which vegetation presents to his view, than such a collection, to which he can at all times refer, either for refreshing his memory, or for...
Sivu 368 - Leaves between elliptical and lance-shaped, pointed, serrate, silky on both sides, the lowest serratures glandular; stamens hairy; germen smooth, almost sessile; stigmas deeply cleft ; scales rounded. A tall tree, with rugged bark and spreading branches, silky when young. Flowers in May : grows in moist woods, and on the banks of rivers and ditches.
Sivu 367 - Sallow. Stem erect ; branches spreading, downy ; leaves broadly elliptical, nearly round, slightly toothed ; glaucous and downy, with rectangular veins beneath ; style as long as the linear, notched stigmas. A shrub from two to eight feet high, with straight, brown, downy branches : flowers in April : grows in thickets and woods.
Sivu 164 - Straw simple, compressed, leafy below ; leaves linear, incurved at the edges ; panicle cymose, terminal, shorter than the bractea ; capsule roundish, longer than the calyx. Root creeping : straws erect, from six to twelve inches high : unbranched, round and leafy below, naked and compressed above : leaves acute, channelled. Perennial : flowers in July and August : grows in moist pastures.

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