Agricultural Botany: An Enumeration and Description of Useful Plants and Weeds, which Merit the Notice, Or Require the Attention, of American Agriculturists |
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... Dioicous , having staminate and pistillate flowers on distinct plants . sed of compound parts . Dipetalous , having 2 petals . with the base only erect . Decurrence . A running or extending down , or backwards . Decurrent leaf . When ...
... Dioicous , having staminate and pistillate flowers on distinct plants . sed of compound parts . Dipetalous , having 2 petals . with the base only erect . Decurrence . A running or extending down , or backwards . Decurrent leaf . When ...
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... dioicous , having perfect and imperfect ( or fertile and sterile ) flow . ers on distinct plants Polygamous , having some flowers per- fect , and others either staminate , pis- tillate , or neuter . The Polygonum or POLYGONACEAE . Knot ...
... dioicous , having perfect and imperfect ( or fertile and sterile ) flow . ers on distinct plants Polygamous , having some flowers per- fect , and others either staminate , pis- tillate , or neuter . The Polygonum or POLYGONACEAE . Knot ...
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... DIOICOUS . Perianth calyx - like , per- sistent , deeply 6 - parted , the outer segments smaller . Stigmas many - cleft . Seed ( Akene , Nut , or Caryopsis ) triquetrous , ORD . CXI . POLYGONACEAE . p . 142 . [ Sambucus Canadensis . ORD ...
... DIOICOUS . Perianth calyx - like , per- sistent , deeply 6 - parted , the outer segments smaller . Stigmas many - cleft . Seed ( Akene , Nut , or Caryopsis ) triquetrous , ORD . CXI . POLYGONACEAE . p . 142 . [ Sambucus Canadensis . ORD ...
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... DIOICOUS : Calyx 5- cleft or 5 - parted - sometimes truncate with the limb entire . Petals 5 , or none . Stamens about 8 , -but ranging from 3 to 12. Samarae in pairs , winged at apex , diverging . ORD . XLI . ACERACEAE . p . 26 ...
... DIOICOUS : Calyx 5- cleft or 5 - parted - sometimes truncate with the limb entire . Petals 5 , or none . Stamens about 8 , -but ranging from 3 to 12. Samarae in pairs , winged at apex , diverging . ORD . XLI . ACERACEAE . p . 26 ...
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... DIOICOUS : Perianth 6 - parted , colored . STERILE FL . Stamens 9 perfect , and 6 to 9 imperfect in an inner series . Ovary a mere rudiment . FERTILE FL . Stamens 15 to 18 , imperfect , filiform , acute . Ovary subglobose ; stigma 2 ...
... DIOICOUS : Perianth 6 - parted , colored . STERILE FL . Stamens 9 perfect , and 6 to 9 imperfect in an inner series . Ovary a mere rudiment . FERTILE FL . Stamens 15 to 18 , imperfect , filiform , acute . Ovary subglobose ; stigma 2 ...
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1-celled 1-seeded 3-lobed abortive acuminate acute Akenes albumen aments anthers apex awned axillary baccate base Berry bracts branches Calyx Capsule carpels Caryopsis cells Cestr compressed Corolla cotyledons Culm cultivated diameter dioicous Drupe elongated Endl erect feet high filiform fleshy florets Flowers fruit Gardens genus Germ glabrous globose Glumes half an inch Herbs Icon imbricated inches long involucre Juss keeled Kunth lance-linear lanceolate leaflets Leaves alternate ligule limb lobes margin membranaceous monoicous Native of Europe nearly numerous oblong obtuse Ovary ovate ovoid ovules palea Panicle Pappus pedicels peduncles Perianth Petals petioles PISTILLATE PISTILLATE FL plant Prodr pubescent purple racemes rarely receptacle Root annual Root perennial scabrous scales Seeds segments sepals sessile sheaths Silicle slender smooth smoothish solitary sometimes Span species Spikelets spikes Stamens STAMINATE FL Stem stigmas stipules style Sub-tribe subglobose subsessile subulate summit Sylva terete terminal Torr Tournef tree TRIBE tube umbel upper Willd
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Page 172 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
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Page 183 - That make so gay the solitary place Where no eye sees them. And the fairer forms That cultivation glories in, are His. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals all the order of the year. He marks the bounds which 'Winter may not pass, And blunts his pointed fury. In its case, Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ Uninjured, with inimitable art, And, ere one flowery season fades and dies, Designs the blooming wonders of the next.
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