A Synopsis of the British Flora Arranged According to the Natural Orders

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Longman, 1829 - 360 pages
 

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Page xi - The latter skims only the surface of things, and leaves the student in the fancied possession of a sort of information which it is easy enough to obtain, but which is of little value when acquired : the former requires a minute investigation of every part and every property known to exist in plants ; but when understood...
Page 196 - Corolla nearly cylindrical ; lower lip with curled segments, the middle one largest and lobed. Stamens fringed. Style smooth.
Page 134 - Ovariujn inferior, 4- or 5-celled, many-seeded; style simple; stigma simple. Berry crowned by the persistent limb of the calyx, succulent, 4- or 5celled, many-seeded. Seeds minute ; embryo straight, in the axis of a fleshy albumen ; cotyledons very short ; radicle long, inferior. Shrubs with alternate coriaceous leaves. 1. VACCINIUM Linn. Calyx entire or toothed.
Page 38 - The stamens follow the same laws of successive developement as leaves ; and, consequently, if their arrangement be normal, they will be either equal in number to the petals, and alternate with them, or, if more numerous, some regular multiple of the petals.
Page 7 - Fruit either consisting of dry akenia, or baccate with one or more seeds, or follicular with one or two valves. Seeds albuminous ; when solitary, either erect or pendulous. Embryo minute. Albumen corneous. — Herbs, or very rarely shrubs.
Page 253 - In open pastures, on a chalky or gravelly soil — Perennial. August, September. 2. S. gemmipara. Leaves lanceolate, as tall as the stalk. Spike 3-ranked, twisted. Bracteas smooth. Smith. Neottia gemmipara Smith. Near Castletown, opposite to Bearhaven on the northern side of Bantry Bay, county of Cork, in small quantities. — Perennial. July. 3. NEOTTIA Linn. act. ups. 1740. Sepals and petals brown, converging ; lip dependent, 2-lobed, concave at the base. Column taper, erect, 4 times as long as...
Page 131 - Linn. Wild Madder. EB 12. 851. Leaves 4, or more, in a whorl, elliptical, shining and smooth on the upper side. Flowers 5-cleft.
Page 18 - Sejials 2, deciduous. Petals 4, cruciate, parallel ; the two outer, either one or both, saccate at the base ; the two inner callous and coloured at the apex, where they cohere and enclose the anthers and stigma. Stamens 6, in two parcels, opposite the outer petals ; anthers membranous, all two-celled, except by abortion.
Page 5 - Trunk more or less conical, formed of three parts one within the other, viz. the bark, the wood, and the pith, of which the wood is enclosed between the two others ; increasing by an annual deposition of new wood and cortical matter between the wood and bark. Leaves always articulated with the stem, with branching reticulated veins, often opposite and divided. Flowers generally with a distinct calyx and a quinary division of the floral envelopes. Embryo with two or more opposite cotyledons...
Page 138 - Corolla monopetalous, tubular, inserted into the top of the ovary, with from 3 to 6 lobes, either regular or irregular, sometimes calcarate at the base. Stamens from 1 to 5, inserted into the tube of the corolla, and alternate with its lobes.

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