Florula Cestrica: An Essay Towards a Catalogue of the Phænogamous Plants, Native and Naturalized, Growing in the Vicinity of the Borough of West-Chester, in Chester County, Pennsylvania ... To which is Subjoined an Appendix of the Useful Cultivated Plants of the Same District |
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Florula Cestrica: An Essay Towards a Catalogue of the Phænogamous Plants ... William Darlington No preview available - 2018 |
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18 inches high acuminate acute Ament awned Barrens Beginning of August Beginning of June Beginning of October Beginning of September BERRY bractes branches Brandywine calyx CAPS celled ciliate cleft common cordate corolla corymbs cultivated Dioicous DRUPE end of August end of July end of September feet high fence-rows flowers greenish flowers pale flowers white flowers yellow flowers yellowish frequent fruit Gardens glabrous glumes hirsute imbricate involucre lance-ovate Last of July Last of September Latter end leaflets leaves lanceolate LEGUME linear lobed low grounds MALE meadows Middle of August Middle of July Middle of October Middle of September Moist Muhl Nutt oblong obtuse panicle Pappus Patton's peduncles petals petioles plant pubescent Pursh racemes rare resembling Rich woodlands rivulets root Schweinitz seeds serrate sessile Silicle species spikelets stamens Stem Stigmas Swamps Synon ternate umbels valved Willd
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Page 30 - Mr. Schweinitz pronounced this to be his V. eriocarpa, described in Silliman's Journal; and remarked that he wished to abandon that name, and restore the one he first gave it; viz. V. scabriuscula.
Page 2 - Having the stamens and pistils sufficiently apparent for classification. Applied to all plants not included in the Class Cryptogamia.