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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... flat . By considering this description with attention , and comparing it with the flower itself , and likewise with the engraved figures , we shall soon attain a good idea of the different parts of a flower . If a Crown Impe- rial be ...
... flat . By considering this description with attention , and comparing it with the flower itself , and likewise with the engraved figures , we shall soon attain a good idea of the different parts of a flower . If a Crown Impe- rial be ...
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... 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 28 DRYING AND PRESERVING.
... 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 28 DRYING AND PRESERVING.
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... flat ; nearly in the form of a circle , as are the leaves of Alder , or the petals of Strawberry and Haw- thorn . Pl . 7. f . 2 . CIRCUMCIS'SA , cut round . CIRCUMFERENCE ( circulus ) the part of a circle most distant from the centre ...
... flat ; nearly in the form of a circle , as are the leaves of Alder , or the petals of Strawberry and Haw- thorn . Pl . 7. f . 2 . CIRCUMCIS'SA , cut round . CIRCUMFERENCE ( circulus ) the part of a circle most distant from the centre ...
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... flat on the ground ; as certain stems , rising a little upward at the base . E. ) DECURRENT ( decurrens ) leaf ; when there is no leaf - stalk but the base of the leaf runs down the stem . White Mullein and Musk Thistle are examples ...
... flat on the ground ; as certain stems , rising a little upward at the base . E. ) DECURRENT ( decurrens ) leaf ; when there is no leaf - stalk but the base of the leaf runs down the stem . White Mullein and Musk Thistle are examples ...
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... flat - topped . FATHOM ( orgya ) see Measure . FAUX , mouth . FAVO'SUM , honey - combed . FEATHERED , ( plumosus ) the down of seeds sometimes consists of fine simple or undivided hairs , in others it sends out lateral hairs , and then ...
... flat - topped . FATHOM ( orgya ) see Measure . FAUX , mouth . FAVO'SUM , honey - combed . FEATHERED , ( plumosus ) the down of seeds sometimes consists of fine simple or undivided hairs , in others it sends out lateral hairs , and then ...
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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....