Practical Botany; an Improved Arrangement of the Generic Characters of British Plants: with a Familiar Introduction to the Linnean System |
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1-celled 2-valved 5-cleft 5-leaved 5-parted 5-petalled 5-toothed acute Anthers awned base beautiful bell-shaped Berry botanist Botany bristles calyx capsule catkin chaffy chalky soils CLASS claws cloven coloured COMMON NAME compound compressed corolla Corrigiola cultivated cylindrical DECANDRIA deciduous DIGYNIA ditches downy Drupe ECHINOPHORA elegant feathery filaments Five species flat florets flowers Four species frequent fruit gardens genera genus Germ Globe-flower globular Glume grass gravelly grows hairy Inferior keeled known lanceolate leaves Legume LINNEAN NAME Linneus Male Female meadows membranous MONOGYNIA nearly equal nectary notched oblong officinalis ORDER outer ovate panicle pappus Pentandria PERICARP petals PISTILS POLYANDRIA Quaking-grass rare receptacle resembling ringent roots roundish scales seed-vessel seeds segments sessile short shorter Silicle Six species Smith spadix species spike spreading stalk STAMENS stamens and pistils Stig Stigma Styles Three species toothed Tordylium TRIANDRIA tribe TRIGYNIA tube tubular umbel uncommon unequal upper lip valves vulgaris wild yellow