Botanical Teacher for North America: In which are Described the Indigenous and Common Exotic Plants, Growing North of the Gulf of Mexico |
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1-celled 1-seeded 2-valved 3-sided 5-cleft 5-leaved 5-parted 5-toothed anthers apex base berry bifid calyx caps capsule catkin corol corolla cotyledons culm drupe egret few-f filaments flat fleshy florets flower gh-to Glume imbricated In-li In-o In-ol In-ov indusium invol legume li-ln ln-li loment many-seeded membranous my-f naked o-ol ol-o ovate paleae Panicle pd ax pd lg pd sl perianth pericarps petals pilose pistilate plants rachis radicle rays receptacle scales seeds Sepals sessile sides Silicle silique sk ol sporules st brh st g st prt stamens stigma strobiles style sub-cor sub-pu sub-ss tube twice lg unarm uneq valves
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Page 59 - Calyx 5-parted ; divisions equal, sub-ovate ; corolla o-petaled; filaments often united at the base in 3 or 5 sets; styles 2 to 5 ; capsules membranaceous, roundish, with a number of cells equal to the number of styles. The bases of the filaments are often in groups, when they are not united. — (St. John's wort.) Exotic.
Page 58 - MACRO'TIS. Calyx about 4-leaved, becoming colored before expanding, caducous ; corolla many minute petals, very caducous, or wanting ; stigma simple, sessile, curving towards the gibbous side of the germ; capsule 2-valved, dehiscent at its straight suture, (cohosh, blacksnake-root, bug-bane.) SARRACE'NIA.
Page ii - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.
Page 62 - Calyx 2-lipped, gibbose at the base; upper lip with 3 lanceolate teeth; lower lip with 2 subulate ones: corol ringent: 2 short stamens barren.
Page 36 - Corol tubular, having the throat closed by the beards of the filaments: stamens often 5: berry 2-celled, many-seeded.
Page 64 - EUCHRO'MA. Calyx inflated, 2 or 4-cleft ; corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip long, linear, embracing the style and stamens; anthers linear, with unequal lobe^ cohering so as to form an oblong disk; capsule ovate, compressed, 2-celled; ' seeds numerous, surrounded with an inflated membrane.
Page 255 - A raceme or panicle in which the stalks of the lower flowers are longer than those of the upper, so that the flowers themselves are all on the same level.
Page 80 - ZOSTERA. Calyx and corol 0: stamens and pistils in 2 rows on one side of a spadix: spathe leaf-like. Staminate flowers with anthers ovate sessile, alternating with the germs. Pistillate flowers with the germ ovate; style 2-cleft; drupe 1-seeded.
Page 54 - ... dehiscent at the top, 5-valved ; valves ovate with margins indexed, remote, straight ; columella sub-ovate, terete, rugose ; seeds small, not winged (leaves always glabrous). 18 .50— (sleek leaf). S. CLETH"RA. Calyx 5-parted. permanent ; corolla 5-petalled ; style permanent ; stigma short, 3:cleft ; capsule S-celled', 3-VaIved, enclosed by the calyx.
Page 99 - Calyx 2-valved, membranaceous, unequal : corol 2-valved, pedicelled, sub-cylindric : lower valve coriaceous, involute, 3-awned at the tip ; upper valve very minute or obsolete : nectary lateral.