Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of Bedford, Arranged According to the System of Linnæus, with Occasional Remarks

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W. Smith, 1798 - 351 páginas
 

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Página ii - the first female Botanist in the wide circle of the British Dominions'.
Página v - But this is only one of the innumerable obligations, for which he is proud to acknowledge himself indebted to her assiduity and attachment.
Página iv - ... science by so many of the female sex, notwithstanding the disadvantages they labour under from the want of scholastic and technical instruction, is a convincing proof of the liberality with which Nature has endowed the female mind : and how little reason there is to suppose that their intellectual are from any other cause than want of cultivation, in any degree inferior to their personal accomplishments.
Página 76 - Leaves heart-arrow-shaped, stem nearly upright, without prickles, angles of the seeds even.
Página iv - Botanical researches which have not only done the the highest honor to themselves, but have eminently contributed to rescue these pursuits from unmerited reproach, to elevate them into reputation, and to impart to them, if not a superior value, at least a superior currency and fashion. — That such excellence should have been attained in this branch...
Página 328 - Crust rather leather-like, stems very short, heads or seeds roundish, white, yellow or scarlet.
Página 218 - Capsules cylindrical, lids taper-pointed, fruitstalks terminating, shoot branched, upright, leaves spear-shaped, rather expanding.
Página 322 - Stemless, egg-shaped, mucilaginous, yellowish, gills cellular, vanishing, turning to dust, blackish : seeds black, adhering to threads.
Página 218 - Capsules egg-oblong, lid taper-pointed, veil reaching but half way, shoots branched, leaves strap-spear-shaped, midribbed, acute.
Página 155 - L. autumnale. Stem branched, fruitstalks scaly, leaves spearshaped, toothed, very entire, smooth.

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