Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such Interesting Botanical Information as Does Not Come Within the Prescribed Limits of the Magazine; with Occasional Figures, Volume 2Sir William Jackson Hooker E. Conchman, 1836 |
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acuminatis acutis anthers apice Astrolabe banks basi Bay of Islands beautiful botanical Botanist bracteis brevi breviore brevioribus calyce Calyx Cape Capsula caule Ceylon Cistacea coast collection Columbia Corolla Corymbs Culm Cunningham D'Urville Diplopappus Ditto Drège Ecklon erecta feet filiform Flora Flores floribus flowers Folia foliis foliolis Forst Fort Vancouver Gamboge genera genus glabris Grev Herbarium Hook hundred inches Indian integerrimis involucri labello Labellum laciniis lanceolatis land leaves letter linearibus lines long longioribus Middle Island miles Mouna mountains Musc natives nearly North oblongis obtusis ovate ovatis pedicellis petalis petiolatis placenta plants Prodr racemis ramis Rich river seeds sepalis sessilibus setis shores South of Europe species specimens Spreng Stamens stricta summit Syst tion trees Van Diemen's Land Veget Willd woods Zealand Middle Island Zealand Northern Island
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