British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 9Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... plant on the top of the shield . It is re- markable , that tobacco has prevailed over the original name , petum , in all the Eu- ropean languages , with very little varia- tion , and even in Tartary and Japan . To bacco is derived from ...
... plant on the top of the shield . It is re- markable , that tobacco has prevailed over the original name , petum , in all the Eu- ropean languages , with very little varia- tion , and even in Tartary and Japan . To bacco is derived from ...
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... plants , with pinnate or bipinnate leaves , and linear leaflets ; flowers terminating , in some species surrounded with a five- leaved calyx like multifid involucre . NIGHT , that part of the natural day during which the sun is ...
... plants , with pinnate or bipinnate leaves , and linear leaflets ; flowers terminating , in some species surrounded with a five- leaved calyx like multifid involucre . NIGHT , that part of the natural day during which the sun is ...
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... plant is larger than the yellow water - lily ; petioles and pe- duncles round , within full of pores ; flow- ers large and very handsome ; petals white , from sixteen to twenty in number ; sta- mens sixty - eight or seventy ; germ round ...
... plant is larger than the yellow water - lily ; petioles and pe- duncles round , within full of pores ; flow- ers large and very handsome ; petals white , from sixteen to twenty in number ; sta- mens sixty - eight or seventy ; germ round ...
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... plants with hermaphrodite flowers , which are furnished with eight stamina or male organs of generation . There are four or- ders belonging to this class of plants , which derive their names from the num- ber of female organs possessed ...
... plants with hermaphrodite flowers , which are furnished with eight stamina or male organs of generation . There are four or- ders belonging to this class of plants , which derive their names from the num- ber of female organs possessed ...
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... plants , and sometimes from the same plant ; but always from different parts of it . While the seeds yield fixed oil , the volatile oil is extracted from the bark or wood . One of the most distinguishing characteristics of the fixed ...
... plants , and sometimes from the same plant ; but always from different parts of it . While the seeds yield fixed oil , the volatile oil is extracted from the bark or wood . One of the most distinguishing characteristics of the fixed ...
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