RF2DYP33J–A dried seed head from the plant group of the carrot family, which there are many varieties
RF2BTGTD7–A typical representation of Asterius Rubens, looks like a star, with the parts labelled as, `a & b`, representing, 4-ranked pedicels and end of pedice
RM2AFPYTK–. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Often THE ABBAN6EMENT OF THE FLOWERS 191 the umbel is compound; that is, secondary umbels, or umbellets,are borne on the ends of the rays (as the pedicels of an umbel areoften called). The bracts which subtend the pedicels in the racemeand corymb become verticillate under the umbel, or form an in-volucre; and the umbellets may be pro-vided with involucels. A last years umbelof the carrot (Fig. 187) is seen to bear theremains of umbellets. 220. The inflorescence of thecommon arrow-leaf is seen
RMPG1WFY–. The natural history of plants. Botany. VMBBLLIFERM. 95 furrows. Thus constituted,' this curious genus comprises some fifteen species,^ herbaceous, perennial, often spinous, natives of southern Europe, the Levant and northern Asia. The leaves are decompound- pinnate or dissected, and the compound umbels are terminal, accom- panied by involucres and involucels whose bracts, indefinite in number, are often hardened and spinescent, like the pedicels of the sterile flowers. Feucedanwm Oreoselinum, III. PEUCEDAN SERIES. The flowers of the Peucedans' are hermaphrodite,* regular or nearly so in the
RM2ANBXXR–The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . A, leaf of Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris) with left margin in-flected over a row of small flies. (After Darwin.) B, glands fromsurface of leaf (X300) by which the sticky liquid is secreted and bymeans of which the products of digestion are absorbed. this way the plant obtains nitrogenous food by means of itsleaves. The leaves bear two sets of glands, the larger borne onusuaUy unicellular pedicels, the smaller almost sessile (fig. B).When a fly is captured, the viscid excretion becomes stronglyaci
RMPG2B42–. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. CULTIVATION AND ANALYSIS OF PLANTS. Stalks.—The stalks are the offshoots from the stem, which directly support the leaves, and are variously styled peduncles, pedicels, petioles, meaning respectively flowerstalks, footstalks and leafstalks. Axil.—The axil is the angle formed on the upper surface, betw^een the stem and leaf, vsrhe
RM2AX46WN–The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . ding order of development appears as Cfe»-tripetal.,^ That is, the flowering proceeds from the margin orcircumference regularly towards the centre; the lower flowersof the former answering to the outer ones of the latter. 209. In these three kinds of flower-clusters, the flowers art,raised on conspicuous pedicels (204) or stalks of their own. The,shortening of these pedicels, so as to render the flowers sessilt,or nearly so, converts a raceme into a Spike, and a corymb or anumbel into a Head. 210. A Spike is a flower-cluster with a more or
RMPG1W35–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 26.0 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Asperula odwaia. male and ordinarily trimerous. The ovary of the medial becomes a fruit, one of the mericarps of which is frequently aborted ; its pedicel is recurved so as to bear the fruit below, and is accompanied with the pedicels of the two male flowers, more or less transformed to crests.^ There is also in the Levant and Mediterranean region, an exceptional Galium, type of a genus Gallipeltis,^ the hermaphrodite flowers of which are axillary and temate, pendent, enclosed each in a cymbiform, membranous bract, which
RM2AFR07H–. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. he base) upwards.Such a simple inflorescence is a raceme. 216(1. The lily-of-the-valley (Pig. 184) is a typicalexample of a raceme. The leaves are reduced to merebracts. The currant (Fig. 185) is also a, good example. 217. If the pedicels in a raceme wereobsolete, and if the flowers were close to-gether, we should have a typical spike. 217«r. The common plantain of door-yards (Fig.186) bears its flowers in a spike. In such long spikesthere is usually a gradual progression in anthesis (inthe o
RMPG1W51–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 164 NATURAL HISTOBT OF PLANTS. Tanaa; {Psmdopanax) valdiviensia.. Fig. 204. Long. sect, of flower (^). complete types, that is those with as many ovarian cells as petals, it may be said to represent the woody Aralias with valvate corolla and the Scheffleras with articulate floral pedicels. Such is often the case with those named Psevdopanax and Cheirodendron. They have a short calyx, five or six valvate petals, as many stamens and ovarian cells. The size and form of their styles are very variable, and that often in the same species according as the gyns
RM2AM24B4–British grasses and their employment in agriculture . Fig. 115. Hokus lanatus (left) and Holcus mollis, a dried specimen (right).About I nat. size. The lateral spikelets are borne on distinct pedicels, and theglumes are fine and bristle-like. The outer palea bears a terminalawn longer than the glumes. Rachilla fine, shorter than that ofthe central flower. Lateral flowers staminate. As in H. pratensethe seed consists of the three united spikelets—the central oneonly enclosing a grain. ch. vn] Botanical Description of Species 111 H. maritimum, With., is a sea-coast form of H. muri-num. Hordeum p
RMPG2EMG–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 218 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. neated at the base, andobtuse at the apex, smooth. Racemes terminal, stalked, pyramidal, straight; pedicels hoary and villous. Calyxes campanulate, 3-lobed; lobes toraentosely ciliated. Corolla glabrous, but the carina is clothed with silky villi.
RM2AM24PA–British grasses and their employment in agriculture . Fig. 115. Hokus lanatus (left) and Holcus mollis, a dried specimen (right).About I nat. size. The lateral spikelets are borne on distinct pedicels, and theglumes are fine and bristle-like. The outer palea bears a terminalawn longer than the glumes. Rachilla fine, shorter than that ofthe central flower. Lateral flowers staminate. As in H. pratensethe seed consists of the three united spikelets—the central oneonly enclosing a grain. ch. vn] Botanical Description of Species 111 H. maritimum, With., is a sea-coast form of H. muri-num. Hordeum p
RMPG1W4Y–. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 204. Long. sect, of flower (^). complete types, that is those with as many ovarian cells as petals, it may be said to represent the woody Aralias with valvate corolla and the Scheffleras with articulate floral pedicels. Such is often the case with those named Psevdopanax and Cheirodendron. They have a short calyx, five or six valvate petals, as many stamens and ovarian cells. The size and form of their styles are very variable, and that often in the same species according as the gynsecium may assume a greater or less development. The stylary divisi
RM2AX47K6–The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . might escape notice, and even sometimes (asin the Mustard Eamily) disappears altogether. The lowest blossoms of a Pio. 199. Piece of a flowering-stem of Moneywort (Lysimachia nummnlaria,)witli single flowers successively produced in tlie axils of the leaves, from belowupwards, as the stem grows on. Pig. 200. A receme, with a general peduncle (p), pedicels Ip), bracts (J), andbraicUets (&)• Plainly the bracts here answer to the leaves in Pig. 199. n FLOWERS. [section 8. raceme are of course the oldest, and therefore open first, and the orde
RMPG1W55–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 162 NATURAL RISTOBT OF PLANTS. various sections of which remain, moreover, but little different one from another.' Didymopanax is from tropical America and closely resembles Sciadophyllum, of which it has generally the digitate leaves and floral pedicels without articulation. The gynsecium is dimerous, and the drupaceous fruit is much compressed perpendicular to the parti- tion, widely didymous or nearly so. The inflorescences are ramified clusters of umbels and the flowers are sometimes polygamous. Panax fragans, from India and China, has become the ty
RM2CEN0B6–. The human side of plants. ascend thestalk are held fast by the glue until they are dead.A case of slaughter, but in self-defence. Another member of the Pink family, and oneequally skilled in catching insects, is the starrycampion. In the tubes of its snowy white flowersare tiny drops of honey that must be saved to re-ward the flying insects which carry its pollen.Therefore, it spreads a sticky fluid on its calyces,and occasionally on its pedicels, to catch crawlingintruders; and in this way it entraps the would-beburglar. As there are no general prisons in the plantworld, each individual j^l
RMPG1W5C–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 160 NATUEAL EISTOBY OF PLANTS. rescence is a ramified cluster of umbellules, with articulate pedicels. The obconical receptacle is surmounted by a depressed disk crenelate at the margin. There is no calyx the petals are triangular, valvate, with stellate hairs, and the bilocular ovary is crowned with two slender stylary branches. The fruit is ovoid or obovate, with a nearly circular transverse section, or a Kttle compressed perpendicular to the partition, drupaceous, but a little fleshy and enclosing two often concave putamens. Horsfieldia has the flo
RMRR235H–. A condensed botany;. Botany. THE PLOWER. 61. CORYMB. 66. When the pedicels are unequal in length, the lower ones being longer than the upper, the cluster is called a Corymb,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Sewall, Joseph Addison, 1830-1917. Chicago, G. Sherwood & co
RMPG1W9X–. The natural history of plants. Botany. ONAQBABIACEM. .469 Fuchsia eoecinea. of Epilohium are described, from all cold and temperate regions of the globe; tbey are herbaceous or subshrubby, with alternate or opposite leaves, entire or dentate, and axillary (pink, white, or yellow) flowers, solitary or collected at the ends of branches in spikes or in clusters with short pedicels. Hauya' elegans is a shrub from the warm parts of Mexico, the flower of which is closely analogous to that of the CEnotheras with long receptacular tube, a little dilated above. There its margin bears four coriaceous
RMRR2356–. A condensed botany;. Botany. THE FLOWED, 63. COMPOUND UMBEL. 67. When all the pedicels seem to spring from the top of the common peduncle, and are equal in length, the cluster is called an Umbel.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Sewall, Joseph Addison, 1830-1917. Chicago, G. Sherwood & co
RMPG1TRW–. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 297. Flower ®. Fig. 298. Long. sect, of flower. The leaves are opposite, very rarely verticillate, accompanied by intrapetiolar stipules most frequently connate in a sheath. The flowers,^ varying much in appearance, are rarely terminal, and more generally axillary, solitary or in cymes, with longer or shorter pedicels or even none. In the Genipas named Griffithia,^ often spinous or climbing, the flowers, small in figure, are in coryinbiform cymes, and the tube of the hypocrateriform corolla is generally longer than the lobes. They are plants of tro
RMRDWM5Y–. Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology. Botany. 407. There are several abnormal modifications of definite inflo- rescence, arising from irregular development, or the suppression of parts, such as the non-appearance sometimes of the central flower, or often of one of the lateral branches at each division; as in the ultimate ramifications of Fig. 331, where one of the lateral pedicels is wanting. When this deviation is completely manifested, that is, when one of the side branches regularly fails, the cyme is apparently converted into a kind of one-sided race
RMPG2WJE–. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fjq. 251- Fig. 252. Stamen (f). Part of the embryo. Next to Ocotea come several genera only differing in the details of the behaviour of the pedicels, receptacle, and perianth after an- thesis: Stryclinodaphne, Camphoromcsa, and Gymnohalanus. Nectandra (figs. 251-252), with the same fioral organization, is at once distinguished by the thickness of the expanded, almost fleshy perianth, and the singular form of the stamens, whose four cells are placed in a nearly horizontal or curved row (fig. 251). Pleurothyrimn and Dicypellium (of which the fertile andr
RMRDFEHC–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 218 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. neated at the base, andobtuse at the apex, smooth. Racemes terminal, stalked, pyramidal, straight; pedicels hoary and villous. Calyxes campanulate, 3-lobed; lobes toraentosely ciliated. Corolla glabrous, but the carina is clothed with silky villi.
RMPG23G4–. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. NYCTAGINACEAE (.FOUB-O'CLOCK FAMILY 131 small, red, similar to the preceding species, but clustered on very short and hairy peduncles and pedicels, giving them a bunched appearance; involucres also hairy. Seed small, ovoid, hairy, with five obtuse ribs. Means of control the same as for the preceding species.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
RMRE1GKP–. Fungi; their nature, influence, and uses;. Fungi. 70 FUNGI. prominent feature, and hence termed Goniomycetes; the other, in -which the threads are most noticeable, is Hyphomycetes. In the former of these, the reproductive system seems to pre- ponderate so much over the vegetative, that the fungus appears to be all spores. The mycelium is often nearly obsolete, and the short pedicels so evanescent, that a rusty or sooty powder represents the mature fungus, infesting the green parts of living plants. This is more especially true of one or two orders. It will be most convenient to recognize two
RMPG2EPP–. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. FLOWERING. V8 opposite leaves and meet around the fetem, each pair constitutes a ver- ticilaster or verticil, as in catmint, hoarhound. 363. How THESE MODES ABE MUTUALLY BELATED. All the forms of infloresoence above described may, after all, be shown to be but modifications of a single type, as follows : Let us commence with the spike, a slender rachis with sessile flowera Conceive that pedicels be developed for the flowers,
RMRDD2T3–. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. CULTIVATION AND ANALYSIS OF PLANTS. Stalks.—The stalks are the offshoots from the stem, which directly support the leaves, and are variously styled peduncles, pedicels, petioles, meaning respectively flowerstalks, footstalks and leafstalks. Axil.—The axil is the angle formed on the upper surface, betw^een the stem and leaf, vsrhe
RMPG1W4P–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 166 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. hooks or rootlets and has alternate-distichous lobed leaves. On those of its branches which are free and whose leaves, quincuncially Bedera Selix.. Fig. 208. Branch with hooka. Fig. 209. Inflorescences. alternate, are entire, the inflorescences are terminal and in clusters of umbellules, terminated by a. more aged umbellule. The pedicels, articulate at the base, are mderaSehx. inserted in the,axil of small bracts. To this genus has been referred as a section, H. australiana, proposed also as a distinct genus under the name
RMRDTJAN–. Handbook of grasses, treating of their structure, classification, geographical distribution and uses, also describing the British species and their habitats. Grasses. 10 STRUCTURE divided and sub-divided, forming the graceful airy panicle so char- acteristic of grasses (fig. 6). The ultimate branches of the panicle are of course the pedicels of the spikelets, and the number of spike- lets contained in this paniculate form of inflorescence is often immense. In the raceme, an intermediate form of inflorescence, each spikelet has its pedicel inserted directly upon the rachis. The panicle may be
RMPG1W6B–. The natural history of plants. Botany. UMBELLIFERJE. 151 the ridges of which the pedicels which bear the flowers of the following generation are connate in their lower part; these may sometimes be fertile but are much more frequently male or sterile. The place in this family of Lagoexia cuminoides'-{G.g. 183, 184), an annual of the entire Mediterranean region, with the habit and foliage of many Umbelliferce, especially of Oliveria, has been much contested. L^goecia ctiminoides.. Fig. 183. Flower (f). Fig. 184. Long. sect, of flower. This is because its ovary with a single fertile cell, which
RMRDGPR1–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 26.0 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Asperula odwaia. male and ordinarily trimerous. The ovary of the medial becomes a fruit, one of the mericarps of which is frequently aborted ; its pedicel is recurved so as to bear the fruit below, and is accompanied with the pedicels of the two male flowers, more or less transformed to crests.^ There is also in the Levant and Mediterranean region, an exceptional Galium, type of a genus Gallipeltis,^ the hermaphrodite flowers of which are axillary and temate, pendent, enclosed each in a cymbiform, membranous bract, which
RMPG429D–. Elements of botany. Botany; Botany. 132 ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. The Raceme and Belated Forms. â If the leaves along the stem â were to become very much dwarfed and the flowers brought closer together, as they frequently are, a kind of flower-cluster like that of the currant (Fig. 105) or the lily of the valley would result. Such an inflorescence is called a raceme; the main flower stalk is known as the peduncle ; the little individual flower stalks are pedicels, and the small, more or less scale-like leaves of the peduncle are hucts} Frequently the lower pedicels of a cluster on the general plan
RMRDH88K–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 164 NATURAL HISTOBT OF PLANTS. Tanaa; {Psmdopanax) valdiviensia.. Fig. 204. Long. sect, of flower (^). complete types, that is those with as many ovarian cells as petals, it may be said to represent the woody Aralias with valvate corolla and the Scheffleras with articulate floral pedicels. Such is often the case with those named Psevdopanax and Cheirodendron. They have a short calyx, five or six valvate petals, as many stamens and ovarian cells. The size and form of their styles are very variable, and that often in the same species according as the gyns
RMPG1787–. Studies in fossil botany . Paleobotany. PALAEOSTACHYA 65 of one kind, and of similar dimensions to those of Calamostachys Binneyana. The apparently axillary position of the sporangio- phores in Palaeostachya evidently suggests caution in. Fig. 26.—Palaeostachyavera. Transverse section of cone. Surrounding the fistular pith is the ring of bundles (v£>) grouped in pairs. Outside them is the cortex and disc (c). sp, pedicels of the sporangiophores, some shown attached to the axis, others between the sporangia (sm)} which are grouped in fours around the sporangiophores; sp', remains of peltat
RMRDG394–. The natural history of plants. Botany. VMBBLLIFERM. 95 furrows. Thus constituted,' this curious genus comprises some fifteen species,^ herbaceous, perennial, often spinous, natives of southern Europe, the Levant and northern Asia. The leaves are decompound- pinnate or dissected, and the compound umbels are terminal, accom- panied by involucres and involucels whose bracts, indefinite in number, are often hardened and spinescent, like the pedicels of the sterile flowers. Feucedanwm Oreoselinum, III. PEUCEDAN SERIES. The flowers of the Peucedans' are hermaphrodite,* regular or nearly so in the
RMPG23PD–. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 24 GRAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) with fine appressed hair; the two lateral spikelets have pedicels and are staminate or empty. So rapid a grower is the grass that two, three, even four, heavy crops of hay may be harvested yearly, if cut before it blooms; the hay is much relished by all kinds of stock and is very fattening; even the rootstocks are tender and sweet, and hogs eat them eagerly; were it not so
RMREMXE0–. A guide to the wild flowers [microform]. Wild flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Botanique. , /'''â ^- '^''-9. FIG 10. A Corymb is a raceme in which the lower pedicels are elongated so that the flowers all reach about the same height!. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Lounsberry, Alice; Rowan, Ellis, 1858-1922. Toronto : McLelland, Goodchild & Steward
RMPG433C–. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 220 CALOCHOETUS CALOCHOETUS 5. cserilleuB, Wats. Similar to G. Maweanus, but lined and dotted with blue : low, 2-5-fld., the pedicels very slender : perianth ciliate inside: capsule nearly or quite orbicular. Calif., in the Sierras. 6. Alegans, Pursh. Similar to the last: petals greenish white and purplish at b
RMRDG2W2–. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 204. Long. sect, of flower (^). complete types, that is those with as many ovarian cells as petals, it may be said to represent the woody Aralias with valvate corolla and the Scheffleras with articulate floral pedicels. Such is often the case with those named Psevdopanax and Cheirodendron. They have a short calyx, five or six valvate petals, as many stamens and ovarian cells. The size and form of their styles are very variable, and that often in the same species according as the gynsecium may assume a greater or less development. The stylary divisi
RMPG1W4W–. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 208. Branch with hooka. Fig. 209. Inflorescences. alternate, are entire, the inflorescences are terminal and in clusters of umbellules, terminated by a. more aged umbellule. The pedicels, articulate at the base, are mderaSehx. inserted in the,axil of small bracts. To this genus has been referred as a section, H. australiana, proposed also as a distinct genus under the name ot Kissodendron, because its leaves are compound- pinnate. In H. discolor, ar- gentata, septemnervia, capitata, xalapensis, jatrophmfolia, &c., American species, of which the
RMRDKH6M–. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. METAMORPHOSIS 167 Imaginal Discs.—TKe imaginal discs are portions of the larval hypoderm, detached from continuity with the main body of the integument, but connected therewith by strings or pedicels which may be looked on as portions of the basement membrane. Whether these discs, or histoblasts as they are called by Klinckel d'Herculais,^ are distinguished by any important character from other buds or portions of regenerative tissue that, according to Kowalevsky,^ Korschelt and Heider,^ and others, exist in other parts of the body, does not appear to
RMPG2X4B–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 0ELA8TBA0EM. 15 Their flowers^ are united in axillary, simple, or more or less ramified, and sometimes umbelliform cymes, with pedicels accom- panied by two lateral bracteoles. More than fifty species^ are known; they have sometimes two or even four or five stamens, two or three of which are sterile and antherless. The Salacece (fig. 26, 27), plants from the same tropical regions as the HippocratecB, often have the same habit and foliage; and their flowers present the same organisation. But their fruit, one or many- seeded, is destitute of wings, globul
RMRDGPRH–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 162 NATURAL RISTOBT OF PLANTS. various sections of which remain, moreover, but little different one from another.' Didymopanax is from tropical America and closely resembles Sciadophyllum, of which it has generally the digitate leaves and floral pedicels without articulation. The gynsecium is dimerous, and the drupaceous fruit is much compressed perpendicular to the parti- tion, widely didymous or nearly so. The inflorescences are ramified clusters of umbels and the flowers are sometimes polygamous. Panax fragans, from India and China, has become the ty
RMPG1W44–. The natural history of plants. Botany. UMBELLIFEE^. 169 ramified clusters of cymes, with articulate pedicels. The calyx is gamosepalous, 4-5-dentate; the petals are triangular and valvate; and the unilocular and uniovulate ovary is surmounted by a thick style with umbilical summit and surrounded at the base by a large epigynous 10-lobed disk. The fruit is an elongate drupe the woody putamen of which has on one side an exterior furrow corresponding to a sort of vertical incomplete false partition, to which is applied the corresponding margin of the seed. On this side the albumen has a deep fu
RMRDF1AM–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXXII. GnOSSULA^CEJE : HI £ES. 479 Flowers more or less pedicellate. Bracteas obtuse, tonientose, much shorter than the pedicels. Sepals roundish-cuneated. Petals oblong. Styles bifid. Berries glabrous, globose, and in colour and taste resembling those of R. rii- brum. (Don's MM.) An upr
RMPG2X2G–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 144 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Australia.' The leaves are alternate, bipinnate, with few, rather broad, coriaceous leaflets. The flowers are grouped iu terminal ramified racemes; the pedicels, articulate at the base, are each axillary to a caducous bract. At the end of this series we place Brandzeia fllmfolic^ (figs. 135- 137), whose affinities with Mimosece and Euccssalpiniec^ are incontest- able, and which has, with the regular flowers of the preceding genera, a receptacle yet more concave^ than in BrythropJdceum, and a Brandzeia filicifo lia.. Please
RMRDGD19–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 144 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Australia.' The leaves are alternate, bipinnate, with few, rather broad, coriaceous leaflets. The flowers are grouped iu terminal ramified racemes; the pedicels, articulate at the base, are each axillary to a caducous bract. At the end of this series we place Brandzeia fllmfolic^ (figs. 135- 137), whose affinities with Mimosece and Euccssalpiniec^ are incontest- able, and which has, with the regular flowers of the preceding genera, a receptacle yet more concave^ than in BrythropJdceum, and a Brandzeia filicifo lia.. Please
RMPG41RN–. Foundations of botany. Botany; Botany. JFiG. 130. — Simple Umbel of Cherry. 198. The Racemes and Related Forms. — If the leaves along the stem were to become very much dwarfed and the flowers brought closer together, as they frequently are, a kind of flower-cluster like that of the currant (Fig. 129) or the lily- of-the-valley would result. Such an inflorescence is called a ra- ceme; the main flower-stalk is known as the 'peduncle ; the little individual flower-stalks are pedi- cels, and the small, more or less scale-like leaves of the peduncle are bracts} Frequently the lower pedicels of a
RMRDKFFN–. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 468 NEUROPTERA live, on Aphides, which tliey suck dry, and at least one species, in all probaljility several, has the habit of covering itself with the sldns of the victims it has sucked; to these remains it adds other small deljris, and the whole mass completely covers and conceals the Insect (i'ig. 311, B). The larva is furnished at the sides with projections which serve as pedicels to elongate divergent hairs, and these help to keep the mass in place on the back of the Insect; some fine threads are distributed througli this curious mantle and serve
RMPG1WWH–. The natural history of plants. Botany. SAPINDAOE^. 346 pinnate. The flowers are arranged in axillary clusters, simple or ramified, with, articulate pedicels. II. SABIA SEEIES. Sabia ^ (fig. 342, 343) has flowers generally hermaphrodite. The convex receptacle usually bears five imbricate sepals, five petals superposed to the sepals and imbricated like them, and five oppositi- Sahia laneeolata.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble
RMRE3N46–. A handbook of cryptogamic botany. Cryptogams. FILICES 8j siderably greater divergence ; the affinity of Osmundaces and Schizaeacese with the typical ferns is more remote ; while the Marattiacese exhibit so. many points of divergence that some high authorities have removed them altogether from the Filices. Order -POLYPODIACEiE. This order includes by far the largest number of genera and species, and may be regarded as the typical family of ferns. The sporanges arise out of single epidermal cells, and have usually long pedicels ; they. Fig. 57.—Alsophita acuUata Klotzsch, a tree-fern (reduced)
RMPFYF4J–. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 143 shows the plan of it. It is plainly the same as a raceme with the lower pedicels much longer than the uppermost. Shorten the body, or axis, of a corymb so that it is hardly perceptible, and we change it into 178. An Umbel, as in Fig. 144. This is a cluster in which the pedicels all spring from about the same level, like the rays or sticks of an umbrella, from which it ta
RMRE1FC6–. The elements of structural botany with special reference to the study of Canadian plants ... Plant physiology; Plant anatomy. Fig. 170.. Fig. 111. internodes of a spike to be suppressed so that the flowers are densely crowded, you will have a he&d, of which Clover and Button-bush supply instances. , If the lower pedicels of a raceme are considerably longer than the Fig. 170.—Plan of the simple corymb. Fig. 171.—Compound raceme; (Gray.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
RMPG1NKM–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXXII. GnOSSULA^CEJE : HI £ES. 479 Flowers more or less pedicellate. Bracteas obtuse, tonientose, much shorter than the pedicels. Sepals roundish-cuneated. Petals oblong. Styles bifid. Berries glabrous, globose, and in colour and taste resembling those of R. rii- brum. (Don's MM.) An upr
RMRDHG2N–. Foundations of botany. Botany; Botany. JFiG. 130. — Simple Umbel of Cherry. 198. The Racemes and Related Forms. — If the leaves along the stem were to become very much dwarfed and the flowers brought closer together, as they frequently are, a kind of flower-cluster like that of the currant (Fig. 129) or the lily- of-the-valley would result. Such an inflorescence is called a ra- ceme; the main flower-stalk is known as the 'peduncle ; the little individual flower-stalks are pedi- cels, and the small, more or less scale-like leaves of the peduncle are bracts} Frequently the lower pedicels of a
RMPG1B81–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 650 The Maples yellow flowers appear with the leaves, or a few days before them, in clusters at and near the ends of twigs of the preceding season; they are long-stalked and drooping, the tree being conspicuous when in bloom; the staminate and pistillate flowers are in separate clusters; the pedicels and 5-lobed calyx are provided with long hairs; there are no petals; the staminate flowers have about 7 stamens twice as lo
RMRDK0NR–. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. A branching shrub, 4°-iS° high, the twigs glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Leaves oval, elliptic or sometimes obovate, wider and shorter than those of the preceding species, permanently more or less soft-canescent and pale beneath and stiff-hairy or pubescent on the veins, varying to nearly glabrous, the margins ciliolate-serrulate; pedicels glandular; flowers
RMPG1WFF–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 98 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. fine or imperceptible. In Femla also the inflorescence often has a peculiar character, due to the position of a certain number of female Kucedaimm (^Ferula) neapolitanuin.. Pmoedanum {Scnrodosu) Asa-fiBiida. Fig. 86. Trans, sect, of fruit {'f). flowers, sessile or with short pedicels, and disposed in no fixed order around the point whence spring at the base the secondary axes of the inflorescence. But this peculiarity is far from constant. The same is true of the woody consistence and great development of the stems, of the
RMRE0JGC–. Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or, an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated . Botany; Botany. 143 shows the plan of it. It is plainly the same as a raceme with the lower pedicels much longer than the uppermost. Shorten the body, or axis, of a corymb so that it is hardly perceptible, and we change it into 178. An Umbel, as in Fig. 144. This is a cluster in which the pedicels all spring from about the same level, like the rays or sticks of an umbrella, from which
RMPG16EB–. Studies in fossil botany . Paleobotany. LYGINODENDRON 395 probability of the Splienopteris type.1 The character of the seed itself suggests the presence of a " canopy." In Splienopteris Dubuissonis, a Lower Coal - measure species from Brittany allied to J>. Hbningliausi, M. Grand'Eury has ob- served six-lobed cupules, in some cases still con- taining the seeds, situated at the extremity of long, slender pedicels, identi- cal with the ultimate ramifications of the rachis.2 The specimens de- scribed by Stur, Arber, and Grand'Eury are all preserved in the form of impressions ; they
RMRDG2W9–. The natural history of plants. Botany. UMBELLIFERJE. 151 the ridges of which the pedicels which bear the flowers of the following generation are connate in their lower part; these may sometimes be fertile but are much more frequently male or sterile. The place in this family of Lagoexia cuminoides'-{G.g. 183, 184), an annual of the entire Mediterranean region, with the habit and foliage of many Umbelliferce, especially of Oliveria, has been much contested. L^goecia ctiminoides.. Fig. 183. Flower (f). Fig. 184. Long. sect, of flower. This is because its ovary with a single fertile cell, which
RMPG1HKG–. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 308 ERICACEAE (HEATH FAMILY) of each umbel which is dark purple; rays of the umbel crowded, the inner ones shorter than the outer rows, all subtended by a whorl of green, finely cut, involucral bracts. As the fruits mature the outer rows of pedicels bend inward, making the umbel concave and forming the "bird's nest." Carpels thickly set with weak spines along the secondary ribs, forming a s
RMRE2A3D–. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. FLOWERS : THEIR ARRANGEMENT ON THE STEM, 61 143 shows the plan of it. It is plainly the same as a raceme with the lower pedicels much longer than the uppermost. Shorten the body, or axis, of a corymb so that it is hardly perceptible, and we change it into 178. An Umbel, as in Fig. 144. This is a cluster in which the pedicels all spring from about the same level, like the ray
RMPG2DPR–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 286 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM.. 464. C. pennEjlT&nica. the disk shortly oval, serrulated, and usually with 2 glands at its base. Flowers in sessile umbels, few in an umbel; pedicels and calyxes pubescent. Fruit upon a short pedicel, globose, brownish purple, austere. {Dec.
RMRE3NBD–. A handbook of cryptogamic botany. Cryptogams. 30 VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMS stouter pedicels, and ari^e from the apex of the columel. In the fonna- tion of the pedicels of the megasporanges longitudinal cell-division takes place, as well as transverse. The mode of formation of the spores within each kind of sporange has already been described in general terms, after the preliminary separation of a single external layer of cells which develops into the wall of the sporange. The sixty-four micro- spores appear to be disposed without any arrangement in the cavity of the microsporange. A large nucleus
RMPG1J4E–. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. CRUOIFERAE (MUSTARD FAMILY) 181 shaped silicles, on fine, wire-like pedicels; each "Mother's heart" is partitioned across its narrow thickness and each cell contains about ten reddish brown seeds, a thrifty plant of average size producing about two thousand. Means of control In cultivated ground the weed succumbs to the constant tillage required, but such plants as spring up after the culti
RMRDTP1R–. Outlines of botany for the high school laboratory and classroom (based on Gray's Lessons in botany) Prepared at the request of the Botanical Dept. of Harvard University. Botany; Botany. rUE FLOW EH 141. 245 246 ascending order of development appears as centripetal. That is, the flowering proceeds from tlie margin or circumference regularly toward tlie center; the lower flowers of the former answering to the outer ones of the latter. 296. In these three kinds of flower clusters, the flowers are raised on conspicuous pedicels or stalks of their own. The shortening of these piedicels, so as to
RMPG1NCF–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 498 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM.. 908. H. B. TuJg&xis. L H. H. 1 vulgaris Dec. (Eng. Bot.,t. 1267. ; and our .;%. 908.) has the pedicels clothed with stellate down, and the fruit black. This is the commonest form of the ivy, throughout Europe, in a wild state; and there are v
RMRE0J7N–. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. FLOWERING. 75 opposite leaves and meet around the stem, eacli pair constitutes a ver- ticilaster or verticil, as in catmint, hoarhound. 363. How THESE MODES ARE MUTUALLY RELATED. All the fdrms of inflorescence above described may, after all, be shown to be but modifications of a single typo, as follows : Let us commence with the spike, a slender rachia with sessile flowers. Conceive that pedicels be developed for the flowers,
RMPFYJBF–. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. ments; anther-cells divergent and at length confluent. — Low annuals, some- what clammy-glandular and balsamic, branched, with entire leaves, and mostly solitary 1-flowered pedicels terminating the branches, becoming lateral by the production of axillary branch- lets, and the flower appearing to be reversed, namely, the short teeth of the calyx upward, etc. Corolla blue, varying to pink, rarely white, small; fl. in summer and autumn. (Name compo
RMRDWA26–. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. FILIGES. 375 boine upon slender pedicels. Morphologically they are trichomes, â whicli undergo a special modification. Each sporangium is at first a two-celled trichome ; the lower cell of whicli develops into the pedicel, while the other becomes divided by partitions parallel to its surface into outer cells, which develop into the sporangial wall, and an inner. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfe
RMPG1F7K–. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. CHLOROGALUM CHRYSALIDOCARPUS 301. 442. Chorizema ilicifolium. (.X%.) A. Pedicels nearly as long as the fls.. spreading from near the base. pomeridiltnuin, Kunth. Soap-plant. Amole. Stem reaching 3 ft., many-branched, from a very large bulb: fls. small (1 in. or less long) and star-like, numerous, white, with pu
RMRDY87B–. Botany of the living plant. Botany. THE INFLORESCENCE, AND THE FLOWER 227 families, giviag rise to modifications of the raceme or panicle sometimes described as corymbose. If, however, intercalary growth be reduced both in the peduncle and the pedicels, all the flowers will appear aggregated in a dense head. The axis of the whole inflorescence is then usually enlarged into a general receptacle, upon which numerous flowers are seated. Such an inflorescence is called a Capitulum (Fig. i-jo.E). It is characteristic of the Compositae. Here again. Fig. 174. Inflorescence of the 'ine : a panicle,
RMPG2E32–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXV, LEGUMINA^CE^ : CE'rCIS. 257 Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous; heart-shaped at the base, many-nerved, rising after the flowers have decayed. Flowers in 1-flowered pedicels, rising from the trunk and branches in fascicles. â Trees, deciduous, of the third rank; natives o
RMRE29EP–. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. MILLA JIILTilXIA lOU MILLA. (J. Milla was bead fjanlener at the Court of Madrid)- LiUAcccr. Bentharu & HooKcr restrict the £;enus Milla (as Cavaiiillos, its author, intended) to one â species, M. bifloni. From Brodifiea the /ireuus differs in the fact that the pedicels are not .ioiuted and the peri- anth s
RMPG2F4M–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXII. BHAMNA^CE^: CEANoVhUS. 181 Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate-oblong, obtuse, acutely serrated, smooth above, hoary and downy beneath. Thyrse elongated, axillary, with a downy rachis. Pedicels smooth. {Don's Mill.) A sub-evergreen shrub. Mexico. Height 6ft. to 10ft. Introduced in 1818.
RMRDTP1H–. Outlines of botany for the high school laboratory and classroom (based on Gray's Lessons in botany) Prepared at the request of the Botanical Dept. of Harvard University. Botany; Botany. 245 246 ascending order of development appears as centripetal. That is, the flowering proceeds from tlie margin or circumference regularly toward tlie center; the lower flowers of the former answering to the outer ones of the latter. 296. In these three kinds of flower clusters, the flowers are raised on conspicuous pedicels or stalks of their own. The shortening of these piedicels, so as to render the flower
RMPG41PT–. Foundations of botany. Botany; Botany. 190 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY compound flower. This belief gave rise to the name of one family of plants, Composites, that is, plants with com- pound flowers. In such heads as those of the thistle, the cud weed, and the everlasting there are no ray-flowers, and in others, like those of the dandelion and the chicory, all the flowers are ray-flowers. 201. Compound Flower-Clusters. — If the pedicels of a raceme branch, they may produce a compound raceme, or. -^ "^ ^ / 1/ / s y A BCD Fig. 136.—Diagrams of Inflorescence. .^, panicle; S, raceme; C, spike;
RMRDTGM9–. Elementary botany. Botany. PLANT FAMILIES: ONOGRACE&. 28l lanceolate or oblong, toothed and repand on the margin. In many of the species of the family the parts of the flower are in fours as in the evening primrose, but in others the number is variable. r># ''. UMBELLIFLORy«. 537. The parsley family (umbelliferae).—The wild carot (Daucus carota) is common by roadsides and in old fields during August and September. The leaves are deeply divided and the lobes are notched (pinnately decompound). The flowers form umbels, since the pedicels are all of about the same length, and many of the
RMPG2M84–. The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution;. Botany. 858 THE DISPERSION OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF FRUITS AND SEEDS. to remain poised in the air. The hairs arise either from the surface of the seed-coat (testa), as in the Cotton trees (Bombax and Gossypium; see figs. 470 ^ and 470 ^), or else they spring from the base of the seed, as in Poplars and Willows (Populus and Salix; see p. 423, figs. 318« and 318*; p. 424, fig. 319 and fig. 4711"). In the Bulrush (Typha; see fig. 471 *) they take their rise from the pedicels of the fruits, and in several Ran
RMRDGC1G–. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 208. Branch with hooka. Fig. 209. Inflorescences. alternate, are entire, the inflorescences are terminal and in clusters of umbellules, terminated by a. more aged umbellule. The pedicels, articulate at the base, are mderaSehx. inserted in the,axil of small bracts. To this genus has been referred as a section, H. australiana, proposed also as a distinct genus under the name ot Kissodendron, because its leaves are compound- pinnate. In H. discolor, ar- gentata, septemnervia, capitata, xalapensis, jatrophmfolia, &c., American species, of which the
RMPG464D–. The fungi which cause plant disease . Plant diseases; Fungi. 326 THE FUNGI WHICH CAUSE PLANT DISEASE In a few species "*'' ^^ there are what are known as amphispores or resting forms of urediniospores provided with thickened walls. They have colorless contents and pedicels more persistent than those of the usual urediniospore. III. Telia (teleuto-sori). Toward the latter part of the grow- ing seasons another kind of spore appears, often in the same sorus with the urediniospore and from the same mycehum. It is of various forms in different genera, one or more- celled, varies in shape, th
RMRDWR9W–. Elements of botany. Botany; Botany. 132 ELEMENTS OP BOTANY. The Raceme and Related Forms. — If the leaves along the stem -were to become very much dwarfed and the flowers brought closer together, as they frequently are, a kind of flower-cluster like that of the currant (Fig. 105) or the lily of the valley would result. Such an'inflorescence is called a raceme; the main flower stalk is known as the peduncle; the little individual flower stalks are pedicels, and the small, more or less scale-like leaves of the peduncle are bracts} Frequently the lower pedicels of a cluster on the general plan
RMPG1W1E–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 878 NATURAL aiSTOBY OF PLANTS. ovule very incompletely anatropous and flowers with short pedicels bearing bracteoles connate in a calycule ; we make it only a' section of Coffea. The same course perhaps should be adopted with Leio- Ixora {Pavetta) indica.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve
RMRJ0Y5B–. The elements of structural botany [microform] : with special reference to the study of Canadian plants : to which is added a selection of examination papers. Plant anatomy; Botany; Botanique; Botanique. 126 ELEMENTS OF STRUCTURAL BOTANY. / ; upper ones, so that all the blossoms are nearly on the same level, the cluster is a corymb (Fig. 170). If the flowers in a head were elevated on separate pedicels of the same length, radiating like the ribs of an umbrella, we should have an umhel^ of which the flowers of Geranium and Parsnip (Fig. 51) are examples. A raceme will be compound (Fig. 171) if
RMPG2DPD–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 464. C. pennEjlT&nica. the disk shortly oval, serrulated, and usually with 2 glands at its base. Flowers in sessile umbels, few in an umbel; pedicels and calyxes pubescent. Fruit upon a short pedicel, globose, brownish purple, austere. {Dec. Prod.) A low shrub. Western parts of Penns
RMRDFEK2–. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. FLOWERING. V8 opposite leaves and meet around the fetem, each pair constitutes a ver- ticilaster or verticil, as in catmint, hoarhound. 363. How THESE MODES ABE MUTUALLY BELATED. All the forms of infloresoence above described may, after all, be shown to be but modifications of a single type, as follows : Let us commence with the spike, a slender rachis with sessile flowera Conceive that pedicels be developed for the flowers,
RMPG3NM2–. Fungous diseases of plants : with chapters on physiology, culture methods and technique . Fungi in agriculture. 424 FUNGOUS DISEASES OF PLANTS teleutospores with long, gelatinizing pedicels (Fig. 206). These teleutospores germinate immediately. Three promycelia often arise from a spore, each through a germ pore situated near the septum between the two cells. The promycelium may form four sporidia in the usual manner, and these sporidia cannot reinfect the cedar. They may apparently be borne long distances by the wind. Moreover, they are produced during the season when young leaves and fruits
RMRDAB2M–. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 143 shows the plan of it. It is plainly the same as a raceme with the lower pedicels much longer than the uppermost. Shorten the body, or axis, of a corymb so that it is hardly perceptible, and we change it into 178. An Umbel, as in Fig. 144. This is a cluster in which the pedicels all spring from about the same level, like the rays or sticks of an umbrella, from which it ta
RMPG23FK–. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. CARYOPHYLLACEAE (PINK FAMILY) 137 pedicels droop as soon as the seed begins to form. Pod or capsule with five valves, which are opposite the sepals. Seeds many, dull black, small, round, flat, sharply margined, rough- ened with very minute pimples; they are a frequent impurity of grass and clover seed; also they possess long vitality when lying dormant in dry soil. (Fig. 88.) Means of control Prevent
RMRD9WMW–. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 24 GRAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) with fine appressed hair; the two lateral spikelets have pedicels and are staminate or empty. So rapid a grower is the grass that two, three, even four, heavy crops of hay may be harvested yearly, if cut before it blooms; the hay is much relished by all kinds of stock and is very fattening; even the rootstocks are tender and sweet, and hogs eat them eagerly; were it not so
RMPG1WF7–. The natural history of plants. Botany. Pmoedanum {Scnrodosu) Asa-fiBiida. Fig. 86. Trans, sect, of fruit {'f). flowers, sessile or with short pedicels, and disposed in no fixed order around the point whence spring at the base the secondary axes of the inflorescence. But this peculiarity is far from constant. The same is true of the woody consistence and great development of the stems, of the form and size of the leaf- divisions.'^ Ferulago ^ is Ferula whose vittse, variable in number, often easily separate from the carpels, with the exterior coat of the fruit belonging to the receptacle.' Th
RMRDG2W1–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 166 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. hooks or rootlets and has alternate-distichous lobed leaves. On those of its branches which are free and whose leaves, quincuncially Bedera Selix.. Fig. 208. Branch with hooka. Fig. 209. Inflorescences. alternate, are entire, the inflorescences are terminal and in clusters of umbellules, terminated by a. more aged umbellule. The pedicels, articulate at the base, are mderaSehx. inserted in the,axil of small bracts. To this genus has been referred as a section, H. australiana, proposed also as a distinct genus under the name
RMPG3T1X–. The elements of botany embracing organography, histology, vegetable physiology, systematic botany and economic botany ... together with a complete glossary of botanical terms. Botany. The minute branches of the peduncle, or slender stalks Tfbich support the individual flowers, are called pedicels (Fig. 85, jsed). 47. The bracts are generally dimin- utive leaves which subtend the flower- cluster, or from whose axil the flower stem proceeds (Fig. 85, ir). The sec- ondary or small bracts on the pedicels are called the bractlets (Fig. 85, hr(). They have generally lost the ordinary function of l
RMRE1R71–. Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical. Botany, Economic; Botany. go THE INFLORESCENCE the apex and the oldest nearest the base of the rachis. If the flowers are sessile, or borne immediately on pedicels, that is, on lateral branches of the first order, the inflorescence is described as simple (Fig. 39); when the main axis branches more than once before bearing the flowers the inflorescence is compound (Fig. 41). A. Simple Racemose Inflorescences.—In these the main axis bears either sessile flowers or flowers with pedicels, (i) With elongated axis and sessile floivers. The spike {A,
RMPG1W83–. The natural history of plants. Botany. ONAGBARIACEM. 479 island of Juan Fernandez. Their leaves are opposite or of'tener alternate, especially at the top of the plant, sometimes entire, some- times dentate or pinnatifid, accompanied by two small caducous stipules; often replaced by bracts at the summit of the branches. The result is that the flowers,' axillary to a certain point, may above form a spike or terminal cluster. In the axil of each leaf or bract is either a solitary flower, with or without lateral bracts, or a cyme, or a few-flowered glomerule; the pedicels, when present, are shor
RMRDGPRA–. The natural history of plants. Botany. UMBELLIFEE^. 169 ramified clusters of cymes, with articulate pedicels. The calyx is gamosepalous, 4-5-dentate; the petals are triangular and valvate; and the unilocular and uniovulate ovary is surmounted by a thick style with umbilical summit and surrounded at the base by a large epigynous 10-lobed disk. The fruit is an elongate drupe the woody putamen of which has on one side an exterior furrow corresponding to a sort of vertical incomplete false partition, to which is applied the corresponding margin of the seed. On this side the albumen has a deep fu
RMPG2ENM–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXV. legumina'ce^ : cy'tisus. 213 down. Flowers axillary, on short pedicels. Calyx and pedicels silky. Legumes pu- bescent, and 3—4-seeded. (Dec. Prod.) A procumbent shrub. South of France, Switzerland, Germany, &c. ; and Britain, on dry elevated downs or heaths, in Suffolk, Cornwall
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