The Genera of North American Plants: And a Catalogue of the Species, to the Year 1817, Τόμοι 1-2author, 1818 |
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... United States of America , A. D. 1818 , Thomas Nut- tall of the said district , has deposited in this office the title of a book , the right whereof he claims as author , in the words follow- ing , to wit : " The Genera of North ...
... United States of America , A. D. 1818 , Thomas Nut- tall of the said district , has deposited in this office the title of a book , the right whereof he claims as author , in the words follow- ing , to wit : " The Genera of North ...
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... UNITED STATES . SIR , The active interest which you have ever taken in the promotion of Natural Science , both in Europe and America , and your desire to ele- vate it to the rank of Philosophy , demands the gratitude of all its votaries ...
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... United States , rendered some deference to public opinion due from the author of a treatise like the pre- sent , addressed merely to those who read the English language . A considerable portion of new matter is also intro- duced vi PREFACE ...
... United States , rendered some deference to public opinion due from the author of a treatise like the pre- sent , addressed merely to those who read the English language . A considerable portion of new matter is also intro- duced vi PREFACE ...
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... United States . - 1 of Europe , nearly allied to the G. aurea and G. virginica . - 1 in Peru . - 2 in the West Indies , and 10 in India . A majority of the North Ameri- can species are confined to the warmer states ; so that the genus ...
... United States . - 1 of Europe , nearly allied to the G. aurea and G. virginica . - 1 in Peru . - 2 in the West Indies , and 10 in India . A majority of the North Ameri- can species are confined to the warmer states ; so that the genus ...
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... United States , and appears to have been introduced by the aborigines ; hence its name of " Catawba , " derived from a tribe of Indians residing on the Catawba river . In most of the habitats of this tree given by the younger Michaux in ...
... United States , and appears to have been introduced by the aborigines ; hence its name of " Catawba , " derived from a tribe of Indians residing on the Catawba river . In most of the habitats of this tree given by the younger Michaux in ...
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1-celled 1-flowered 1-seeded 2-valved 5-cleft 5-leaved 5-toothed acuminate acute America anthers attenuated base Berry bifid bracteate bractes branched Calix Calix 5-parted campanulate Cape Capsule carnose Carolina compressed Corolla corymb corymbose Culm deciduous dioicous distinct Drupe entire erect exserted feet high filaments filiform florets flowers axillary Fort Mandan fruit genus germ glumes Herbaceous imbricated inches high inches long India involucrum lanceolate leaflets leaves alternate leaves opposite Legume length linear lobes many-flowered many-seeded margin membranaceous Michaux minute Missouri naked nearly allied North American genus oblong obtuse ovate panicle Pappus partly pedicellate peduncles perennial Persoon Petals petiole pilose plant pubescent Pursh racemes racemose rachis rarely Receptacle Root roundish scabrous scape scarcely Seeds segments sessile setaceous sheathing short shorter shrubby shrubs Siberia smooth solitary species spikes Stamina Stem simple Stigma stipules Style subulate suffruticose summit ternate trifid tropical tube umbell unequal upper valves verticillate villous Willd yellow
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Σελίδα 141 - ... wilds of uncultivated nature that we are to obtain vines worthy of cultivation ; were this the case, Europe would to the present have known no other Malus than the worthless austere crab, in place of the finest apple — no other Pyrus than the acerb and inedible Pyraster or stone pear, from which cultivation has obtained all the other varieties. It is from seed that new and valuable varieties are invariably to be obtained. There is, however, at the present time, a variety of one of the native...
Σελίδα ii - Honorary member of the American Philosophical Society, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences, &c.
Σελίδα 238 - ... dioecious, the staminate flowers with nine stamens in two series, the inner of which has three stamens, and the pistillate flowers with three sterile filaments and three ligulate bifid stigmas. He added further : " flowers very small and evanescent, the female emerging ; the male migratory, breaking off connection usually with the parent plant, it instantly expands to the light, the anthers also burst with elasticity and the granular pollen vaguely floats upon the surface of the water.
Σελίδα 10 - Forestiers" which I have visited, if existing at all, it had evidently been introduced. I am informed, however, by Governor Harrison of the indubitable existence of this tree in very considerable quantities in the forests of the Wabash, Illinois territory, where its wood is even split for rails ; still even here it is extremely local, and I have never once met with it, either on the banks of the Ohio, the Mississippi, or the Missouri rivers, which I have ascended or descended thousands of miles.
Σελίδα 104 - ... the embryo is, at first, a minute and nearly central funiculus, which enlarges and becomes more distinct during the progress of germination ; but what appears to be most singular...
Σελίδα 125 - Collomia linearía N'utt. Gen. 1: 126. 1818. Gilia linearis A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 223. 1882. TYPE LOCALITY: "Near the banks of the Missouri about the. confluence of Shian River, and in the vicinity of the Arikaree village.