A Flora of North America: Containing Abridged Descriptions of All the Known Indigenous and Naturalized Plants Growing North of Mexico; Arranged According to the Natural System, Volume 1 |
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1-celled achenia acuminate acute anthers apex axillary base Beechey beneath Bor.-Am bracteoles bracts branches broadly calyx canescent Capsule carpels cauline cordate coriaceous corolla corymbs cotyledons cymes Darlingt densely Douglas drupes elongated entire feet high filaments filiform Florida flowers fruit glandular hairs hairy herb hirsute Hook inches high inches long incised involucre lanceolate leaflets legumes length Lindl linear lines long Linn lobes longer margin membranaceous Michx minute nearly glabrous numerous Nutt Nuttall oblong obovate obtuse Oregon oval ovary ovate ovate-lanceolate panicle pedicels peduncles petals petioles pinnately plant prodr pubescent purple Pursh racemes radical leaves rarely Rocky Mountains roundish scape scarcely Seeds segments sepals serrate sessile short shorter silicles siliques slender slightly solitary sometimes spec species specimens spikes Stamens stem erect stigma stipules style subulate summit teeth terete terminal toothed Torr tube umbels upper vexillum villous vittæ Willd yellow
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Page 224 - I was there about ten years ago, when the surveyor run the lines or precincts of the colony, where there was neither habitation nor cleared field. It was then a famous orange grove, the upper or South promontory of a ridge, nearly half a mile wide, and stretching North about forty miles...
Page 270 - ... beneath; umbels axillary, few-flowered, naked; fruit with minute protuberances at the angles. Low hills near the coast, St. Diego, California. — Leaves about half an inch long and 4-5 lines wide, similar to the preceding in texture, venation, &c. Flowers white. Fruit the size of a large pea.
Page 170 - Stamens distinct, withering, either equal in number to the petals and alternate with them, or 2, 3, or 4 times as many.
Page 150 - Each side of the leaf is a little concave on the inner side, where are placed three delicate, hair-like organs, in such an order that an insect can hardly traverse it without interfering with one of them, when the two sides suddenly collapse and enclose the prey with a force surpassing an insect's efforts to escape. The fringe or hairs of the opposite sides of the leaf interlace, like the fingers of the two hands clasped together.
Page 268 - Stem and branches villous; leaves elliptical-ovate, nearly glabrous above, villous beneath, glandulnrly serrulate, rather obtuse [3-ribbed from the base]; panicles lateral and terminal, very short, few-flowered, naked or leafy towards the base, persistent; disk pentangular; ovary with 3 protuberances at the angles nearly as large as itself. Bushy woods on the hills of St. Barbara, California. — A shrub. Leaves on moderately long petioles. Clusters of flowers scarcely longer than the leaves. Flowers...
Page 243 - Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, patent. Stamen-tube 10-cleft at the apex, with 10 anthers in the throat; segments 2-3-partite ; anthers opposite to the segments and a little shorter, oblong, slightly apiculate. Ovary seated on a short disk, 5-celled; cells each with 2 superposed ovules. Style columnar, breaking off from the top of the ovary : stigma 5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, with one 5-celled bony nut: cells 1 -seeded.
Page 541 - ... as to reach the dorsal suture. The sides of the carpel, and even sometimes the introflexed portion, usually become extremely thick and fleshy, forming the great mass of the ripe fruit, so that by losing the general character of dissepiments, they might almost be said to disappear, and thus at first sight a pepo would be said to be, and has been so described, a 1-celled, fleshy, indehiscent fruit, with parietal placentae that send out sometimes false dissepiments towards the axis, as the cucumber...
Page 226 - Ovary formed by the union of several carpels round a common axis, either distinct or cohering ; styles as many as the carpels, united or free.
Page 130 - Wr. (J. Au. y.) cyme simple: spikelets ovate: wings elliptical-oblong, rather obtuse, mucronate; superior sepal half as large as the wings, rather obtuse: lateral petals distinct nearly to the base; crest minute: seed sub-globose, glabrous, without a caruncle: stem simple, terete, attenuated upward: radical leaves linearspatulate; cauline ones linear-subulate, minute.
Page 485 - Petals inserted on the calyx, alternate with the lobes, and equal to them in number. Stamens inserted with the petals, twice or several times as many : filaments distinct : anthers erect, straight, or incurved.