First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable PhysiologyIvison & Phinney, 1857 - 236 σελίδες |
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albumen answers anther arranged axil axis Barberry bark base bearing belong blade blossom botanist Botany bracts branches called calyx calyx and corolla carbonic acid carpels cells chalaza cluster common commonly compound leaf compound pistil consists corolla corymb cotyledons cyme embryo exogenous filament five Flax flower flower-cluster foliage fruit genus germination green pulp ground grow growth herb hilum Horsechestnut inflorescence inner kind layer leaf leaf-stalk leaflets lengthwise LESSON lobes magnified Maple margin matter Morning-Glory natural nourishment organs outer ovary ovules pair palmately pedicels petals pinnate pistils placenta plant plantlet pollen raceme radicle receptacle ribs root rootlets rootstocks scales seed seed-leaves seedling sepals separate shape shoot showing shrubs side simple pistil slender soil sometimes sort species stalk stamens stamens and pistils stigma student styles Succory summit surface tendril thickened tissue tree tube tubers upper vegetable veins whole wood
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Σελίδα 42 - Thus, the Washington Elm at Cambridge — a tree of no extraordinary size — was some years ago estimated to produce a crop of seven millions of leaves, exposing a surface of 200,000 square feet, or about five acres, of foliage.
Σελίδα 87 - Attachment to the filament. Of this there are three ways ; namely, the anther is Innate (as in Fig. 232), when it is attached by its base to the very apex of the filament, turning neither inwards nor outwards; or Adnate (as in Fig. 233), when attached by one face, usually for its whole length, to the side of the filament ; and Versatile (as in Fig. 234), when fixed by its middle only to the very point of the filament, so as to swing loosely, as we see it in the Lily, in Grasses, &c.
Σελίδα 169 - Decedents," and to repeal said original sections, -and to repeal sections one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight...
Σελίδα 199 - Runcinate : coarsely saw-toothed or cut, the pointed teeth turned towards the base of the leaf, as the leaf of a Dandelion. Runner : a slender and prostrate branch, rooting at the end, or at the joints, as of a Strawberry, p.
Σελίδα 198 - Resúpinate : inverted, or appearing as if upside down, or reversed. Reticulated: the veins forming network, as in fig. 50, 83.
Σελίδα 55 - ... either palmately or pinnately so, as the case may be. Thus, Fig. 138 represents a four times ternately compound, in other words a ternately decompound, leaf of our common Meadow Rue. 173. So exceedingly various are the kinds and shapes of leaves, that we have not yet exhausted the subject. We have, however, mentioned the principal terms used in describing them. Many others will be found in the glossary at the end of the volume. Some peculiar sorts of leaves remain to be noticed, which the student...
Σελίδα 186 - Epiphyllous : borne on a leaf. Epiphyte : a plant growing on another plant, but not nourished by it ; p.