An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of the Linnean System, Volume 1C. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1830 - 394 páginas |
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... DECIDUOUS , ( deciduus ) LEAVES ; those which fall off at the approach of winter . CALYX or CUP ; falling off before the blossom ; as does that of Thorn - apple , Cabbage , Ladies ' - smock , and Poppy . SEED - VESSEL ; falling off ...
... DECIDUOUS , ( deciduus ) LEAVES ; those which fall off at the approach of winter . CALYX or CUP ; falling off before the blossom ; as does that of Thorn - apple , Cabbage , Ladies ' - smock , and Poppy . SEED - VESSEL ; falling off ...
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... deciduous ; plants which retain their leaves at all seasons : the leaves being so gradually cast off and re - produced , that the tree or shrub is never stripped . E. ) EXARA'TUS , see Furrowed . EXCRESCENCE , ( apophysis ) a substance ...
... deciduous ; plants which retain their leaves at all seasons : the leaves being so gradually cast off and re - produced , that the tree or shrub is never stripped . E. ) EXARA'TUS , see Furrowed . EXCRESCENCE , ( apophysis ) a substance ...
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... deciduous part of a vegetable , containing the rudiments of a new plant . It consists of the Heart , the Seed - lobes , the Eye , and the Seed - coat . See those terms . Sometimes it is crowned with the cup of the flower , and sometimes ...
... deciduous part of a vegetable , containing the rudiments of a new plant . It consists of the Heart , the Seed - lobes , the Eye , and the Seed - coat . See those terms . Sometimes it is crowned with the cup of the flower , and sometimes ...
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... deciduous , others remaining as long as the leaves ; simple or com- pound . E. ) STO'LO , a sucker . STOLONIFERUs , putting forth suckers . STONE ; See Nut . STRADDLING ( divaricatus ) branches standing wide from each other . STRAIGHT ...
... deciduous , others remaining as long as the leaves ; simple or com- pound . E. ) STO'LO , a sucker . STOLONIFERUs , putting forth suckers . STONE ; See Nut . STRADDLING ( divaricatus ) branches standing wide from each other . STRAIGHT ...
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... deciduous . Mass of Pollen at length be- coming waxy . MALAX'IS . Lip flattened , undivided , sessile , ( often exterior ) . Petals five narrower , spreading or bending outwards . Masses of Pollen four , parallel , attached to the ...
... deciduous . Mass of Pollen at length be- coming waxy . MALAX'IS . Lip flattened , undivided , sessile , ( often exterior ) . Petals five narrower , spreading or bending outwards . Masses of Pollen four , parallel , attached to the ...
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acute angular Anthers oblong Anthers roundish awl-shaped base BLOSS blossom Border Botany calyx Capsule Catkin cells Class claws cloven coloured compound flowers compressed concave cotyledons Cup one leaf cylindrical deciduous edge egg-oblong equal expanding Female flowers Filaments five Filaments four Filaments six Filaments three five clefts five divisions flat Flora florets fruit-stalk furrowed Gærtn Gartn Genera genus Germen egg-shaped Germen oblong Germen roundish globular hair-like hermaphrodite hollow Husk inclosed inner inversely heart-shaped Involucrum keeled leafits leaves Linn Linnæus lobes Male flowers membranous nearly Nectary notched opening outer ovate pedicle permanent Petals five Pileus PIST Pistils Plantarum plants reflexed SEED single seed-vessel SEEDS numerous SEEDS solitary segments sessile short shorter side spear-shaped species spike stalk STAM stamens stamens and pistils stem strap-shaped Style thread-shaped Summit blunt Summits simple tapering Tourn tube tubular tumid Umbel upper lip upright valves VESS
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Página xxxvi - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Página lvi - Fair angel, thy desire, which tends to know The works of God, thereby to glorify The great Work-Master, leads to no excess That reaches blame, but rather merits praise The more it seems excess, that led thee hither From thy empyreal mansion thus alone, To witness with thine eyes what some perhaps, Contented with report, hear only in heaven : For wonderful indeed are all his works, Pleasant to know, and worthiest to be all Had in remembrance always with delight...
Página 113 - Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.
Página xxxv - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Página xl - The sheltering oak resists the stormy wind, The tougher yew repels invading foes, And the tall pine for future navies grows ; But this soft family, to cares unknown, Were born for pleasure and delight alone : Gay without toil, and lovely without art...
Página xl - But we despise these his inferior ways (Though no less full of miracle and praise) : Upon the flowers of heaven we gaze ; The stars of earth no wonder in us raise, Though these perhaps do, more than they, The life of mankind sway.
Página xxxiv - They are all the formation of Supreme Intelligence, for a wise and a worthy end, and may lead us by gentle gradations to a faint conception of the powers of infinite wisdom. They have calmed and amused some of us worms and reptiles, and possibly bettered us for our change to a new and more perfect order of being.
Página 28 - A considerable number of pieces of pliant paper, from one to four inches square. 4. " Some small flat leaden weights, and a few small bound books. " The specimen of any plant intended for the Herbarium, should be carefully collected when dry and in the height of its flowering, with the different parts as perfect as possible, and in the smaller plants the roots should be taken up. It should then be brought home in a...
Página lv - Perhaps, has in immortal numbers sung; Or what she dictates writes; and oft, an eye Shot round, rejoices in the vigorous year. When...
Página 5 - A CLASS .... to an ARMY ; An ORDER ... to a REGIMENT ; A GENUS .... to a COMPANY ; And a SPECIES to a SOLDIER. But no comparison can be more in point, than that which considers the Vegetables upon the face of the globe, as analogous to the inhabitants; thus. VEGETABLES resemble the INHABITANTS in general; CLASSES .... resemble the NATIONS; ORDERS .... resemble the TRIBES ; GENERA....