Exotic Flora: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare Or Otherwise Interesting Exotic Plants...with Remarks Upon Their Generic and Specific Characters, Natural Orders, History, Culture, Time of Flowering, &c, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1823 - Botany |
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... Root composed of several fasciculated fibres , each nearly as thick as the little finger , and flexuose ; from the crown of these rise 5 or 6 rather large , broadly ovate , bright green , undulated leaves , having a beautiful silky ...
... Root composed of several fasciculated fibres , each nearly as thick as the little finger , and flexuose ; from the crown of these rise 5 or 6 rather large , broadly ovate , bright green , undulated leaves , having a beautiful silky ...
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... or less magnified . TAB . 4 . Portion of the scape of Neottia speciosa , with the leaves and root . Nat . size . Aspidium Wallichic Eng by J. Show Glasg ASPIDIUM WALLICHII . angular, curved. Stigma quadrate, viscid, placed ...
... or less magnified . TAB . 4 . Portion of the scape of Neottia speciosa , with the leaves and root . Nat . size . Aspidium Wallichic Eng by J. Show Glasg ASPIDIUM WALLICHII . angular, curved. Stigma quadrate, viscid, placed ...
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... roots . Stipes about 2 inches long , smooth , shining , only bearing a few chaffy scales at the base , joint- less . Frond from 12 to 14 inches in length , linear lanceolate , of a delicate submembranaceous substance , pale green ...
... roots . Stipes about 2 inches long , smooth , shining , only bearing a few chaffy scales at the base , joint- less . Frond from 12 to 14 inches in length , linear lanceolate , of a delicate submembranaceous substance , pale green ...
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... Root rather large , somewhat knotted , and covered with numerous thickly entangled downy roots , with several clusters of ovate , acute , green , re- curved concave scales or stipules at the top , from which the leaves and stalks of the ...
... Root rather large , somewhat knotted , and covered with numerous thickly entangled downy roots , with several clusters of ovate , acute , green , re- curved concave scales or stipules at the top , from which the leaves and stalks of the ...
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... Root much creeping , and throwing out stiff , wiry fibres . Stem about 6 or 8 inches high , at the base undivided , and with very few appressed leaves ; upward much branched , with the branches spreading , slightly and grace- fully ...
... Root much creeping , and throwing out stiff , wiry fibres . Stem about 6 or 8 inches high , at the base undivided , and with very few appressed leaves ; upward much branched , with the branches spreading , slightly and grace- fully ...
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2-celled acuminate Anther appear Back view base beautiful beneath Botanic Garden bracteas branches broadly ovate BROWN Caladium calyx Capsule cell ciliated colour Column of fructification corolla curved cylindrical Doodia aspera downy Dr WALLICH erect extremity figure Filaments FILICES filiform fleshy florets foliis footstalk frond Front view genus Germen glabrous glands Glasgow Botanic Garden green GYNANDRIA Hort inches in length inches long involucre KUNTH labello labellum lanceolate leaf leaflets leaves less magnified linear lobes longitudinal margin membranaceous midrib MONOGYNIA native nearly nerves numerous oblong obtuse Osbeckia pale pedicels Peduncles Peperomia perianth petals petiole Pistil plant Pleopeltis Pollen pollen-masses Portion pubescent purple purplish receptacle reticulated Root roundish scales Scape scarcely seeds segments sessile sheathing SHEPHERD shew short side Sir JAMES SMITH slender slightly Sori spadix spatha species specimen spike spreading stamens stem Stigma stove Style terminal transverse tube upper WILLD yellow