First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 páginas |
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Página 101
... stamens and pistils are abortive petals , because they can be converted into the latter by cultivation ; and that double , and full flowers , are not the monsters they have been repre- sented , but , on the contrary , that single ...
... stamens and pistils are abortive petals , because they can be converted into the latter by cultivation ; and that double , and full flowers , are not the monsters they have been repre- sented , but , on the contrary , that single ...
Página 182
... stamen , and pistil , for without them no plant can produce seeds . When you look into a lily you see a thick column ... stamens . Now , some plants have these parts only ; they have no flower - cup , no corolla , no petals where ...
... stamen , and pistil , for without them no plant can produce seeds . When you look into a lily you see a thick column ... stamens . Now , some plants have these parts only ; they have no flower - cup , no corolla , no petals where ...
Página 183
... stamen , for it has been proved that the pollen , or powder , which is formed by one part of the latter , named the anther , must have access to the pistil before the seeds will ripen . What this power is which resides in the pollen ...
... stamen , for it has been proved that the pollen , or powder , which is formed by one part of the latter , named the anther , must have access to the pistil before the seeds will ripen . What this power is which resides in the pollen ...
Página 187
... stamens around it , all enclosed by the calyx or perianth , and this is a PERIANTHIUM Fructificationis , or perianth of the fructification , as not including the stamens and The utility of these distinctions may not appear very evident ...
... stamens around it , all enclosed by the calyx or perianth , and this is a PERIANTHIUM Fructificationis , or perianth of the fructification , as not including the stamens and The utility of these distinctions may not appear very evident ...
Página 188
... stamen and pistil in some classes of plants do not meet together , but some flowers produce pistils only , and others only stamens , either on the same , or on different individual plants . The perianth , therefore , of the ...
... stamen and pistil in some classes of plants do not meet together , but some flowers produce pistils only , and others only stamens , either on the same , or on different individual plants . The perianth , therefore , of the ...
Términos y frases comunes
afford animals anther appearance beautiful blossoms botanist Botany branches buds bulb called calyx capsule CAULIS clothed colour common compound flower contains corolla covered culm cuticle different species Digynia earth example feet ferns filaments fleshy floating florets FOLIUM frond fructification fruit Fuci Fucus garden genera genus grasses green grow hairs hence herb insects instance INVOLUCRUM Jamaica juice kind latter leaf leaf-stalk leaflets leaves Legume Lichen lily Linnæus means Monogynia mosses named native nature nourishment observe palm peduncle perhaps perianth pericarp petals petiole pinnate pinnate leaf pistil plants pollen primrose produce RADIX receptacle remarkable resemble root round says scarcely sea-weeds seed-vessels seeds shrub silicle Sir J. E. Smith sometimes stalk stamens stem stipe succulent plants surface sweet tendrils term thick thorn Travels trees TRIANDRIA Trigynia trunk tube tubers umbel vegetables violet volva Voyage winds Withering wood
Pasajes populares
Página 256 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green.
Página 295 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 369 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour,
Página 373 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 295 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Página 155 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours : nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and, ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright...
Página 287 - Whatever earth, all-bearing mother, yields In India, East or West, or middle shore In Pontus, or the Punic coast, or where Alcinous reign'd, fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell, She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand ; for drink, the grape She crushes, inoffensive must, and meaths From many a berry, and from sweet kernels pressed She tempers dulcet creams...
Página 258 - Sir, believe me, upon my relation for what I tell you, the world shall not reprove. I have been in the Indies, where this herb grows, where neither myself, nor a dozen gentlemen more of my knowledge, have received the taste of any other nutriment in the world, for the space of one and twenty weeks, but the fume of this simple only: therefore, it cannot be, but 'tis most divine.