 | Jacob Bigelow - 1817 - 736 σελίδες
...inside the leaf is cleft almost to the petiole. In barren steins which support but one leaf this docs not take place, and the leaf is very perfectly peltate....with the stigma. Its early period of ripening has givea rise to the trivial name of May apple. The dried root of the May apple is fragile and easily... | |
 | Jacob Bigelow - 1824 - 440 σελίδες
...concave, 'smooth, white, with slight transparent veins. Stamens shorter than the petals, curving upwards ; anthers oblong, twice as long as their filaments....convolutions and folds. The flower is succeeded by a large acid, ovate, yellowish fruit, which is one celled, many seeded and crowned with the stigma. Its early... | |
 | John Lindley - 1838 - 706 σελίδες
...shorter than the petals, curving upwards ; anthers oblong, twice as long as their filauients. Ovary oval, compressed, obscurely angular. Stigma nearly...rendered irregular by numerous convolutions and folds. Fruit fleshy, oblong-ovate, yellowish, as large as a pigeon's egg, 1 -celled, many-seeded, crowned... | |
 | John Lindley - 1838 - 686 σελίδες
...shorter than the petals, curving upwards ; anthers oblong, twice as long as their iilamerits. Ovary oval, compressed, obscurely angular. Stigma nearly...rendered irregular by numerous convolutions and folds. Fruit fleshy, oblong-ovate, yellowish, as large as a pigeon's egg, 1 -celled, many-seeded, crowned... | |
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Linnaeus makes them nine in his generic character, but in this climate I have found them more frequently seven even in luxuriant specimens growing in very rich soil. They are obovate, obtuse, concave, smooth, white with slight transparent veins. Stamens... 