Familiar Lectures on Botany: Including Practical and Elementary Botany : with Generic and Specific Descriptions of the Most Common Native and Foreign Plants, and a Vocabulary of Botanical Terms : for the Use of Higher Schools and Academies |
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... upper sur- face is rather flattened , the under surface convex . You will find this remark useful , in distinguishing the foot - stalks of com- pound leaves , from young branches , with which they are some- times confounded . In most ...
... upper sur- face is rather flattened , the under surface convex . You will find this remark useful , in distinguishing the foot - stalks of com- pound leaves , from young branches , with which they are some- times confounded . In most ...
Page 82
... upper surface of leaves is usually of a deeper green , and supposed to perform a more important part in respiration , than the under surface . The upper surface repels moisture ; you may perceive upon a cabbage leaf after a shower , or ...
... upper surface of leaves is usually of a deeper green , and supposed to perform a more important part in respiration , than the under surface . The upper surface repels moisture ; you may perceive upon a cabbage leaf after a shower , or ...
Page 83
... upper surfaces to the side on which the greatest quantity of light is to be found . It has already been observed that plants throw off oxygen gas ; but for this purpose they require the agency of light . Carbonic acid gas is the food of ...
... upper surfaces to the side on which the greatest quantity of light is to be found . It has already been observed that plants throw off oxygen gas ; but for this purpose they require the agency of light . Carbonic acid gas is the food of ...
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... upper and expanded part ; the tube of the calyx is cylindric in the pink , and prismatic in the stramonium . The position of the calyx with respect to the germ , offers an important mark of distinction between different genera , and al ...
... upper and expanded part ; the tube of the calyx is cylindric in the pink , and prismatic in the stramonium . The position of the calyx with respect to the germ , offers an important mark of distinction between different genera , and al ...
Page 94
... upper border of the corolla . * Some Botanists call these nectaries , but this seems to be making an unne cessary confusion in terms ; for they have as much the appearance of petals , as those of a rose or pink . How distinguished from ...
... upper border of the corolla . * Some Botanists call these nectaries , but this seems to be making an unne cessary confusion in terms ; for they have as much the appearance of petals , as those of a rose or pink . How distinguished from ...
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2-celled 2-valved 5-cleft 5-petalled 5-toothed acuminate acute animals anthers appear bark base beautiful bell-form beneath berry blossom botanists botany bracts branches called calyx capsule cells characters cleft colour compound flowers contains cordate corol corolla corymbed cotyledons crenate dicotyledonous divisions drupe egret Exotic filaments florets flowers-calyx frond fruit genera genus germ glabrous grass grow hairy imbricate involucrum labiate lanceolate leaf leafets leaves lance leaves lanceolate leaves ovate legume lily linear Linnĉus lobed margin monopetalous naked natural family nectary number of stamens oblong obovate obtuse organs oval panicle pedicels peduncles pericarp petals petioles pinnate pinnatifid pistils plants pollen pubescent racemes receptacle resembling root rose roundish scales scape seeds serrate sessile side silique sometimes spatha species spikes stamens stamens and pistils stem erect stigma stipe style substance terminal ternate toothed tree tube tubular umbels upper valves vegetable villose wood yellow
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Page 215 - Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours. I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 303 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 303 - Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth"; 1 VOID : empty.
Page 324 - all things were made, and without whom was not any thing made that was made.
Page 304 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 285 - The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Page 303 - O flowers That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Page 80 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours : nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and, ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright...
Page 434 - And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
Page 305 - Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From Infinite Perfection to the brink Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss ! From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns?