First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 Seiten |
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... tendrils ; and is it not therefore an inaccuracy to bestow on them an appellation which can with consistency appertain only to roots ? Were the term clasping used for stems whose roots are fixed in the earth , but which also adhere in ...
... tendrils ; and is it not therefore an inaccuracy to bestow on them an appellation which can with consistency appertain only to roots ? Were the term clasping used for stems whose roots are fixed in the earth , but which also adhere in ...
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... tendrils of the stem and branches of ivy serve in any degree for its support , or not , one thing is very certain , that when it grows upon level ground it never produces the fructifica- tion , nor do its leaves undergo those changes in ...
... tendrils of the stem and branches of ivy serve in any degree for its support , or not , one thing is very certain , that when it grows upon level ground it never produces the fructifica- tion , nor do its leaves undergo those changes in ...
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... clothed with evergreen foliage and shoots . * 26. CAULIS Scandens , a climbing stem . ( Scando , to climb , Lat . ) A stem which ascends other plants , & c . by means of tendrils . Observe a. * Pages 135 and 156 . erect. ...
... clothed with evergreen foliage and shoots . * 26. CAULIS Scandens , a climbing stem . ( Scando , to climb , Lat . ) A stem which ascends other plants , & c . by means of tendrils . Observe a. * Pages 135 and 156 . erect. ...
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... tendrils or claspers , and will be attended to hereafter . 27. CAULIS volubilis , a twining stem . Observe a hop ascending its pole , and you may remark that it is not supported on the latter either by fibres like the ivy , or tendrils ...
... tendrils or claspers , and will be attended to hereafter . 27. CAULIS volubilis , a twining stem . Observe a hop ascending its pole , and you may remark that it is not supported on the latter either by fibres like the ivy , or tendrils ...
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... tendril , from any part of its surface . 9. PETIOLUS vaginans , when it invests the stem like a sheath , as in grasses . We shall now attend to the leaves themselves ; and , in the first place , it is very obvious , that they are not ...
... tendril , from any part of its surface . 9. PETIOLUS vaginans , when it invests the stem like a sheath , as in grasses . We shall now attend to the leaves themselves ; and , in the first place , it is very obvious , that they are not ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afford animals anther appearance beautiful blossoms botanist Botany branches buds bulb called calyx capsule CAULIS clothed colour common compound flower contains corolla covered culm cuticle different species Digynia earth example feet ferns filaments fleshy floating florets FOLIUM frond fructification fruit Fuci Fucus garden genera genus grasses green grow hairs hence herb insects instance INVOLUCRUM Jamaica juice kind latter leaf leaf-stalk leaflets leaves Legume Lichen lily Linnæus means Monogynia mosses named native nature nourishment observe palm peduncle perhaps perianth pericarp petals petiole pinnate pinnate leaf pistil plants pollen primrose produce RADIX receptacle remarkable resemble root round says scarcely sea-weeds seed-vessels seeds shrub silicle Sir J. E. Smith sometimes stalk stamens stem stipe succulent plants surface sweet tendrils term thick thorn Travels trees TRIANDRIA Trigynia trunk tube tubers umbel vegetables violet volva Voyage winds Withering wood
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green.
Seite 295 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Seite 369 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour,
Seite 373 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Seite 295 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Seite 155 - 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...
Seite 287 - Whatever earth, all-bearing mother, yields In India, East or West, or middle shore In Pontus, or the Punic coast, or where Alcinous reign'd, fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell, She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand ; for drink, the grape She crushes, inoffensive must, and meaths From many a berry, and from sweet kernels pressed She tempers dulcet creams...
Seite 258 - Sir, believe me, upon my relation for what I tell you, the world shall not reprove. I have been in the Indies, where this herb grows, where neither myself, nor a dozen gentlemen more of my knowledge, have received the taste of any other nutriment in the world, for the space of one and twenty weeks, but the fume of this simple only: therefore, it cannot be, but 'tis most divine.