Manual of British Botany: Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns Arranged According to the Natural OrdersGurney and Jackson, 1847 - 428 páginas |
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Manual of British Botany: Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns Arranged ... Charles Cardale Babington Visualização integral - 1847 |
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1-2 feet high 1-celled acuminate acute Anth axillary barren base beak beneath bifid bipinnate bracts branched calyx Caps Carp carpels catkins cells ciliated compressed cordate corymb corymbose crenate dense downy elliptical elongated entire erect filaments filiform fleshy florets foot high germen glabrous globose glumes hairs hairy imbricated involucre keeled Koch lanceolate leafl leaflets leafy ligule linear linear-lanceolate Linn lobes longer lower many-flowered margin membranous mucronate narrowed nearly numerous oblong obovate obtuse outer pale Ovary ovate ovate-lanceolate panicle Pappus pedicels peduncles Perianth perigone petioles pinnate pinnatifid pinnules plant pods prickles procumbent pubescent purple racemes rachis rare reflexed root rounded roundish scales Seeds segments sepals serrate sessile setæ sheaths short shorter simple slender slightly smooth solitary spikelets spikes stalked Stam stem Stigma stip style subulate teeth terminal ternate thickets toothed tube umbels unequal upper valves VIII whorls yellow
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Página 288 - ... the scales ; fertile flowers clustered, solitary, or in catkins ; ovary usually simple ; stigmas 1 or more.
Página 288 - Leaves obovate, cuspidate, doubly and coarsely serrated, cuneate and nearly equal at the base, always exceedingly scabrous above, evenly downy beneath. Branches not corky, cinereous, smooth. Fruit rhomboid-oblong, scarcely cloven, naked.
Página 308 - Perianth ringent, hooded. Lip 3-lobed, spurred. Glands of the stalks of the pollen-masses in a common pouch.
Página 286 - Leaves rhomboid-ovate, acuminate, wedge-shaped, and oblique at . the base, always scabrous above, doubly and irregularly serrated, downy beneath, serratures incurved. Branches wiry, slightly corky; when young, bright brown, pubescent. Fruit oblong, deeply cloven, naked.
Página 58 - Ovary formed by the union of several carpels round a common axis, either distinct or cohering ; styles as many as the carpels, united or free.
Página 267 - It has monoecious rarely perfect flowers, the perigone of two more or less connected parts, two stigmas, a free membranous pericarp, a crustaceous testa ; the seed is vertical, attached by a lateral hilum, either near the base or by means of an elongated funiculus in the middle of the side ; the radicle basal ; the stamens five, continuous. Most of the species of this genus are insignificant weeds, and are sometimes troublesome pests in corn-fields. Babington, in his ' Manual of British Botany,
Página 150 - ARAUACE^:, the Ginseng Family. Calyx entire or toothed. Petals definite, two- to five- or ten-deciduous, occasionally 0; aestivation valvate. Stamens, as many as the petals, or twice as many, inserted below the margin of an epigynous disk. Ovary adherent to the tube of the calyx, two- or more-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous, anatropal ; styles, two or more, distinct or connate ; stigmas simple. Fruit usually succulent, two- to fifteen-celled, covered by the calycine limb. Seeds solitary, pendulous,...
Página 91 - The segments of the calyx 5 ; the petals 5 ; the styles 2-5 ; the fruit turbinate, its nuts adhering to the sides of the calyx, but not cohering at the centre; the stamens erect, as long as the teeth of the calyx. The species are shrubs, with simple entire leaves, woolly beneath.
Página 299 - Leaves nearly entire, ovate-lanceolate, acute ; shaggy above, densely silky, somewhat cottony beneath. Style as long as the almost sessile, woolly germen. Stigmas capillary, deeply divided, the length of the style.
Página 211 - Stamens 5, inserted into the base of the corolla, and alternate with its lobes : anthers versatile.