RFC6K5YK–Coffee shrub, vintage engraving. Vintage engraved illustration of Coffee, seed and flower isolated against a white background.
RMRDY7HW–. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. 4 SUPPLEMENT. coloration of these leaves, which are frequently called by the general name of perianth, the presence of nectar-glands, ets., are devices to attract insects and insure proper fertilization. The Spermatophyta are divided into the two following classes, the characters of each being appended: Class I. Angiospermae. [Greek, signifying covered seeds.] Plants having their ovules enclosed in a sac or ovary formed of one or more carpels. Fertil- ization effected by the growth of a tube from the pollen-grain after it has lodged on t
RMRDYCMG–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—URTICACEAE 415 Distribution. In rich woods from Missouri to Kansas to Texas; widely cultivated in the north from southern Nebraska to southern Iowa, Illinois and eastward. Poisonous properties. This species is listed as poisonous by Professor Bessey in Nebraska. Dr. Halsted notes that a friend of his while working in Osage Orange hedges suffered considerably because of inflamation following the piercing of the thorn. Th
RMRDYD8E–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—FARINOSAE 373. from trees, and by the pine-apple (Ananas sativus), a well known fruit now cultivated extensively in Florida; from which has been isolated the enzyme,, bromelin, a powerful ferment capable of rapidly digesting vegetable and animal albumen. It acts in the presence of either acid or alkaline carbonates and is related to trypsin and pepsin. In the same family is the pinguin (Bromelia Pinguin) or wild pine-ap
RMRDYDG0–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—GYMNOSPERMS 327. Fig. 127. Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). A common forest tree of Northern North America. Contains resin and the usual principles found in these resins. Said to be injurious. CONIFERAE Resinous trees or shrubs generally evergreen leaves, entire or scale-like; wood consists mostly of tracheids marked with large depressed disks; tracheae only present near the pith and in the leaves; perianth none; flowers mon
RMRDYCGH–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—AMARANTHACEAE 431. Fig. 207. Russian Thistle iSalsola Kali, var. tenuifolia). Causes mechanical injuries to man and stock. (Charlotte M. King.) Stamens 1-5, mostly opposite the calyx-segments; ovary 1-celled; ovules solitary; fruit an utricle; circumscissile, irregular or indehiscent; seed generally smooth; endosperm usually copious and mealy. About 425 species in tropical countries mostly. Several like Celosia cristata
RMRDYC8K–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—RANUNCULACEAE 459 or nearly so, divided into oblong linear lobes; flowers small; sepals S, reflexed; petals S, yellow; head globose; carpels mucronate with a minute curved beak. Distribution. In moist woods and meadows; a troublesome weed. New- foundland to Manitoba, Nebraska, Colorado and Florida. Poisonous properties. The leaves of the plant have an acrid, peppery taste and cause blistering.. Please note that these im
RMRDYCHM–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—POIvYGONACEAE 423. Fig. 201. Water Pepper (.Polygonum Hydro- piper). Troublesome to sheep. (After Hoch- stein.) mostly greenish; stamens 4 or sometimes 6; ochreae cylindrical, fringed with short bristles; style short, 2-3 parted; achene lenticular or 3-angled, dull, granular. Poisonous properties. This species and the door yard knot weed (P. avi- culare) are said to be troublesome to sheep CENTROSPERMAE Herbs mostly wit
RMREBFXY–Dried Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) leaves and fresh leaf, leaves in dried commercial form
RMRDYDFE–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—ANGIOSPERMS—HELOBIAE 333. Fig. 131. Pond-weed (Polamogeton natans). 1. Apex of flowering shoot. 2. Flower viewed from above. 3. Flower viewed from side. 4. Diagram of flower. (After Wossidlo).. 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.. Pammel,
RMRDYDC7–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA-GRAMINEAE-GRASSES 353. Fig. 144a. Long-awned Poverty Grass (.Artsttda tuberculosa). a, Spikelet with lower glmne; b, flowering glume with divergent long awns. (U. S. Dept. Agrl.). Fig. 144b. Short-awned Poverty Grass. (A, basircmiea). Occurs in sandy and gravelly soils. (U. S. Dept. Agrl.). nearly equal, 12 lines long, awn-pointed; flowering glume about 10 lines long, twisted above to the division of the awns, and with
RMRDYDDP–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—GRAMINEAE—GRASSES 339. 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.. Pammel, L. H. (Louis Hermann), 1862-1931. Cedar Rapids, Ia. , The Torch Press
RMRDYCGR–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—CHENOPODIACEAE 429 laciniate pinnatifid; flowers in spikes without bracts, or the lower spikes leafy bracted. Distribltion. Naturalized from Europe in waste places, from Massachusetts to Ontario and from Wisconsin to Mexico. Poisonous properties. Several species of the genus contain volatile oils. The C. amhrosioides, var. contains the volatile oil of wormseed. This oil has a peculiar, strong, offensive odor and a punge
RMRDYDCF–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—GRAMINEAE—GRASSES 349 3. Paspalum, L. Paspalum Spikelets spiked or sometimes racemed, in 2 to 4 rows on one side of the flattened or filiform rachis, awnless, 1-flowered; glumes 3, rarely only 2, 1 glume flowering; flower coriaceous, orbicular or ovate; stamens 3; spikes 1 or more at or toward the summit of an elongated peduncle. Species about 160, chiefly in warm temperate regions in both hemispheres. In South America