The British Flora, Volum 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1835 - 499 pàgines |
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5-cleft acuminate acute Anthers axillary base beneath bifid bipinnate Borrer bracteas branched calyx capsule Carpels catkins chalky common compressed cordate corolla crenate cylindrical downy England feet high florets flowers foot high frequent fruit genus germen glabrous glands glaucous hairy Hook inches high involucre Ireland J. S. Mill J. T. Mackay July June Juss.-Named lanceolate leaflets leafy leaves lanceolate leaves ovate legumes Lindl linear linear-lanceolate Linn Linn.-E lobes margin Moist mountains nearly oblong obovate obtuse ovato-lanceolate panicle pastures pedicels peduncles Perianth Pericarps petals petiolate pinnate pinnatifid pinnules plant prickles procumbent pubescent purple racemes rare root Salict scales scape scarcely Scot Scotland seeds segments serrated sessile sheaths shorter silky Sir J. E. Smith slender solitary species specimens spikelets spikes spreading stalked stamens stem erect stigmas stipules style Suppl teeth terminal toothed umbels upper valves waste places whorled Wilson Woods yellow
Passatges populars
Pàgina 404 - It disna become me to speak to the point of my qualifications," said Andrew, looking round him with great complacency; "but nae doubt I should understand my trade of horticulture, seeing I was bred in the parish of Dreepdaily, where they raise lang-kale under glass, and force the early nettles for their spring kale.
Pàgina 407 - It hath formerly built a good part of our ancient houses in the City of London, as does yet appear : I had once a very large barn near the City...
Pàgina 117 - Anoint thy face with goat's milk in which violets have been infused, and there is not a young prince upon earth who will not be charmed with thy beauty.
Pàgina 154 - LIKE pendant flakes of vegetating snow, The early herald of the infant year; Ere yet the adventurous crocus dares to blow, Beneath the orchard boughs thy buds appear.
Pàgina 8 - ... above that fluid. The vesicles are then found to contain only air, by aid of which the plant floats ! This air again in autumn gives place to water, and the plant descends to ripen the seeds at the bottom.
Pàgina 418 - ... they would probably have produced 300/. per acre. The late George Biggin, Esq. of Cosgrove Priory, an able chemist, ascertained that the bark of this tree contains the tanning principle in a superior degree to that of the Oak : and it is supposed that the medical properties stated to belong to S. fragilis, are attributed to it by mistake and should be referred to the present. The leaves are of a peculiarly handsome shape when in perfection, deeply serrated and much attenuated.
Pàgina 84 - Name, Cicuta was a term given by the Latins to those spaces between the joints of a reed of which their pipes •were made: and the stem of this plant is similarly marked by hollow articulations.
Pàgina vii - 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.
Pàgina 217 - The number of stam. is in reality 24, of which 12, inserted 1 at the base of each petal, are perfect, the rest alternating with the petals, small and abortive ; some bearing anthers, open longitudinally and laterally, producing, instead of pollen, abortive...
Pàgina 394 - Sheaths shorter than the flower-stalks. Fertile spikes about 3, distant, erect, ovate, dense, many-flowered. Fruit ovate, triangular, ribbed, smooth, with a deeply-cloven beak, membranous at the orifice.