A Systematic Arrangement of British PlantsJ. F. Dove, 1830 - 391 pages |
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acute angular Annual Anthers oblong Anthers roundish axillar Barren flowers base Ben Lawers bracteas branched bristly Calyx inferior Capsule catkins chaff-scales cleft clusters common compressed Corolla corymb cylindrical deciduous decumbent deeply divided downy Drupe elliptical Engl Fertile flowers Filaments awl-shaped flower-stalks flowers in April flowers in August flowers in July foot high four Frond fruit Germen superior globular grows in dry grows in woods hairy husks imbricated inches high inversely egg-shaped inversely heart-shaped July and August June and July keeled leaf leaflets leafy Leaves egg-shaped leaves lance-shaped Legume lobes membranous nearly Nectary notched one-celled panicle Perennial flowers Petals five pinnate pinnatifid Pistils purple receptacle ribbed root-leaves round scales Scotland Seeds numerous segments serrate sessile Sheaths short shorter smooth solitary spike spikelets spreading stalked stamens Stem erect Stigma obtuse Straw Style thread-shaped terminal ternate three feet high toothed tube two-celled umbels unequal yellow
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Page 26 - Mare's-tail. Leaves linear, in whorls. From one to two feet high : root creeping : stem erect, simple, jointed : leaves linear, smooth, acute, arranged in numerous whorls, each containing about twelve : flowers axillar, solitary, sessile : germen egg-shaped : anther very large, red. Perennial : flowers in May and June : grows in pools and marshes ; not common. Norfolk and Staffordshire ; Duddingston Loch, near Edinburgh ; Castle-semple Loch, in Renfrewshire ; about Forfar and Aberdeen ; Marsh of...
Page 345 - Stem erect; branches spreading, downy; leaves broadly elliptical, nearly round, slightly toothed; glaucous and downy, with rectangular veins beneath ; style as long as the linear, notched stigmas.
Page 78 - Hoary Plantain. Leaves egg-shaped, downy, on very short stalks ; flower-stalks round ; spike cylindrical ; seeds one in each cell. Root somewhat woody ; leaves hoary, with seven ribs : stalk about six inches high, downy. Perennial : flowers in June and July : grows in pastures and by way-sides; common in some parts of England and Ireland, rare in Scotland.
Page 145 - Root creeping : straws erect, from six to twelve inches high, unbranched, round and leafy below, naked and compressed above : leaves acute, channelled. Perennial : flowers in July and August : grows in moist pastures.
Page 173 - Night-flowering Catchfly. Stem forked ; petals cleft ; calyx with ten hairy ribs ; its teeth linear, almost as long as the tube. Stem erect, round, spreading, from one to two feet high : flowers solitary, from the forks of the stem, sweet-scented during the night: petals with a deeply cleft, pale rose-coloured limb, and blunt cleft scale. Annual : flowers in July : grows in sandy fields in England. Eng. Bot. vol. v. pi. 291. Eng.
Page 55 - Panicle spreading, with waved branches ; flowers acute, as long as the calyx ; awn from the middle of the outer husk, twisted ; leaves bristle-shaped. Straw upwards of a foot high, erect, smooth : leaves short : panicle erect, with waved, angular branches and flowerstalks, and shining brown flowers. Perennial: flowers in July : grows in heathy places and on dry banks ; common. Engl. Bot. vol. xxii. pi. 1519.
Page 23 - To prevent the attacks of insects, it is necessary to keep beside it a piece of sponge soaked full of rectified oil of turpentine ; and to ensure it against decay from damp, it ought to be kept in a dry and well- ventilated place. The above is an orderly method of forming a herbarium ; but many other expedients are resorted to. Most plants dry sufficiently well between the leaves of old books, and many collectors save themselves the trouble of forming a neat collection, by huddling up their specimens...
Page 165 - Calyx inferior, of one leaf, permanent, deeply divided into five rounded segments. Petals five, roundish, spreading. Filaments awl-shaped, curved, shorter than the corolla. Anthers large, pendulous, two-celled, each opening by a round pore at the top. Germen superior, roundish, five-lobed. Style thread-shaped, longer than the stamens, permanent. Stigma thickened, somewhat notched. Capsule globular, depressed, five-cornered, fivecelled, five-valved. Seeds very numerous, minute, oval, each in a membranous...
Page 334 - Catkins cylindrical, imbricated all round with scales, each enclosing a single flower, narrower at the base, broader at the end, with three deep egg-shaped segments, the middle one largest and lying over the others. Corolla none. Filaments eight, very short, hanging from the inner side of the scale ; anthers oblong, two-celled, pendulous, shorter than the scale. Fertile Flowers at a distance from the others, from scaly buds. Calyx double : the outer inferior, of one leaf, deeply divided, many-flowered,...
Page 270 - Capsule many-seeded. POLYADELPHIA.— POLYANDRIA. 1. HYPE'RICUM. Calyx inferior, of one leaf, deeply divided into five nearly eggshaped, concave, permanent segments. Petals five, egg-shaped or oblong, obtuse, expanding, overlapping each other laterally. Filaments numerous, hair-like, united at the base into three or five sets. Anthers small, roundish. Germen superior, eggshaped. Styles varying from five to one, simple, distant. Stigmas simple. Capsule roundish, with as many cells as there are styles....