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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... plant is much taller than the first , and divides into a greater num- ber of slender branches , which are cover- ed with a russet hairy bark , with long spear - shaped leaves , ending in sharp points ; these grow opposite at every joint ...
... plant is much taller than the first , and divides into a greater num- ber of slender branches , which are cover- ed with a russet hairy bark , with long spear - shaped leaves , ending in sharp points ; these grow opposite at every joint ...
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... plant is in flower , they are dry and shrivelled ; stamens two , sometimes four ; filaments very slender , shorter than the corolla , fastened to the receptacle ; an- thers saffron coloured : the capsule splits at top into two hearts ...
... plant is in flower , they are dry and shrivelled ; stamens two , sometimes four ; filaments very slender , shorter than the corolla , fastened to the receptacle ; an- thers saffron coloured : the capsule splits at top into two hearts ...
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... plants , expresses a root of a round or roundish figure , and usually furnished See BOTANY . with fibres at its base . BULBOCODIUM , in botany , a genus of the Hexandria Monogynia class and order . Liliaceous plants . Order Spatha- ceæ ...
... plants , expresses a root of a round or roundish figure , and usually furnished See BOTANY . with fibres at its base . BULBOCODIUM , in botany , a genus of the Hexandria Monogynia class and order . Liliaceous plants . Order Spatha- ceæ ...
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... plant . It has silicle transversely oval , finishing on each side in a horn , or very long and strong spine , so that the silicle resembles a pair of horns ; in the middle of the silicle are four small spines , direct- ed different ways ...
... plant . It has silicle transversely oval , finishing on each side in a horn , or very long and strong spine , so that the silicle resembles a pair of horns ; in the middle of the silicle are four small spines , direct- ed different ways ...
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... plants are shrubs , but most of them are herbs . The flowers are commonly ter- minating , and mostly of a yellow colour . BUPLEURUM , in botany , a genus of the Pentandria Digynia . Natural order of Umbellatæ . Essential character : in ...
... plants are shrubs , but most of them are herbs . The flowers are commonly ter- minating , and mostly of a yellow colour . BUPLEURUM , in botany , a genus of the Pentandria Digynia . Natural order of Umbellatæ . Essential character : in ...
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