The British FloraLongman, Orne, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1838 - 448 pàgines |
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The British Flora: Comprising the Phænogamous, Or Flowering Plants, and the ... Sir William Jackson Hooker Visualització completa - 1838 |
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2-valved 5-cleft abundant acuminate acute Anthers axillary base Ben Lawers bifid Borrer bracteas branched bristles Cal.-valves calyx capsule Carpels ciliated colour common compressed corolla creeping cylindrical downy drooping England erect feet high florets flowers footstalks frequent fruit G. E. Smith genus germen glabrous glaucous glumes hairy hedges Hook inches high involucre Ireland July June Juss.-Named keel lanceolate leaflets leafy leaves linear leaves ovate Lindl linear-lanceolate Linn lobes margin membranous Moist mountains nearly obcordate oblong obovate obtuse ovato-lanceolate panicle pastures pedicels peduncles Perianth petals petiolate pinnate plant prickles procumbent pubescent purple racemes rare ribs root rough sandy scabrous scape scarcely Scotland seeds segments serrated sessile sheaths short shorter slender solitary spatha species spikelets spikes spreading stalks Stam stamens stem stigma Styles subulate Suppl terminal toothed umbels unequal upper valves waste places whorl Wilson Woods yellow
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Pàgina 127 - Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, doubly and evenly crenateserrate, cuneate and oblique at the base, becoming quite smooth above, smooth or glandular beneath, with a few hairs in the axillae. Branches bright brown, smooth, wiry, weeping. Fruit obovate, naked, deeply cloven.
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 xiii - Dioecia, stamens and pistils, like the former in separate flowers, but on two separate plants. 23. Polygamia, stamens and pistils separate in some, flowers, united in others, either on one, two, or three distinct plants.
Pàgina 96 - Stem 3-cleft at the top. Flowers in dense forked tufts. Calyx as long as the tube. Segments of the corolla lanceolate. Lower leaves broadly elliptical, with 5 or 7 ribs.
Pàgina 80 - 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 193 - Thejiowers of this wellknown and rustic medicinal plant are no less beautiful than they are curious in their structure. The number of stamens 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 ovules!
Pàgina 68 - Druidism prevailed the houses were decked with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and •cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes.
Pàgina 3 - Name from the Enchantress Circe, either from the prettiness of its flowers, or as some say, from growing in damp shady places, where plants used for incantations are found. Diandria. Monogynia. 1. C. lulet':ana, Linn.
Pàgina 57 - Flowers sessile upon a spike or spadix, which issues from a sheathing bractea or spatha.
Pàgina 147 - Toad Rush. Stem dichotomous above, panicled ; leaves filiform, setaceous, grooved ; flowers solitary, unilateral, mostly sessile ; capsules elliptical, ovate, much shorter than the acuminated leaflets of the perianth.