American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 3Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... flowers are in co- rymbs . In Jamaica it is known by the narae of bastard cedar , and is peculiar to the low lands there , forming an agreeable shade for the cattle , and supplying them with food in dry weather , when all the herbage is ...
... flowers are in co- rymbs . In Jamaica it is known by the narae of bastard cedar , and is peculiar to the low lands there , forming an agreeable shade for the cattle , and supplying them with food in dry weather , when all the herbage is ...
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... flowers , in racemes from the crowded leaves , simple , spreading , ma- ny - flowered ; calyx hoary without , to- mentose within ; filaments twice as long as the calyx ; anthers roundish , yellow ; germ flatted , with ten streaks at the ...
... flowers , in racemes from the crowded leaves , simple , spreading , ma- ny - flowered ; calyx hoary without , to- mentose within ; filaments twice as long as the calyx ; anthers roundish , yellow ; germ flatted , with ten streaks at the ...
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... flowers in long slender spikes , axillary , and ter- minating ; composed of little , opposite , many - flowered , crowded racemes ; co- rolla coriaceous , scarcely longer than the calyx . B. occidentalis ; spear - leaved buddlea ; this ...
... flowers in long slender spikes , axillary , and ter- minating ; composed of little , opposite , many - flowered , crowded racemes ; co- rolla coriaceous , scarcely longer than the calyx . B. occidentalis ; spear - leaved buddlea ; this ...
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... flower , they are dry and shrivelled ; stamens two , sometimes four ; filaments very slender , shorter than the corolla ... flowers in May and June . BUFO , toad . See RANA . BUG . See CIMEX . The house bug , or cimex lectuarius , so ...
... flower , they are dry and shrivelled ; stamens two , sometimes four ; filaments very slender , shorter than the corolla ... flowers in May and June . BUFO , toad . See RANA . BUG . See CIMEX . The house bug , or cimex lectuarius , so ...
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... flowering bul- chicum in shape , though much smaller ; bocodium , resembles the common col- About the middle of February ... flowers within them very white , before they open far ; though sometimes purplish at first appearing . There is ...
... flowering bul- chicum in shape , though much smaller ; bocodium , resembles the common col- About the middle of February ... flowers within them very white , before they open far ; though sometimes purplish at first appearing . There is ...
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