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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... leaves , smooth , succulent , filled with a green , highly acrid juice . Leaves all springing from the summit of the stem , 8 or 10 inches in length , ovato - oblong , cuspidate , undulated , having a thick midrib , and lateral parallel ...
... leaves , smooth , succulent , filled with a green , highly acrid juice . Leaves all springing from the summit of the stem , 8 or 10 inches in length , ovato - oblong , cuspidate , undulated , having a thick midrib , and lateral parallel ...
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... leaves at the extremity . It is a native of the West Indian Islands , and of the warmer parts of South America . We are assured by BROWN , in his Natural History of Jamaica , that the stalk is employed to bring sugar to a good grain ...
... leaves at the extremity . It is a native of the West Indian Islands , and of the warmer parts of South America . We are assured by BROWN , in his Natural History of Jamaica , that the stalk is employed to bring sugar to a good grain ...
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... All more 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 ...
... All more 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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... leaves and stalks of the receptacle arise . Leaves 8-10 inches long , all radical , 2 feet high when fully grown ; the early ones , according to Mr SHEPHERD , cordato - sagittate , dentate , and quite undivided , afterwards deeply cleft ...
... leaves and stalks of the receptacle arise . Leaves 8-10 inches long , all radical , 2 feet high when fully grown ; the early ones , according to Mr SHEPHERD , cordato - sagittate , dentate , and quite undivided , afterwards deeply cleft ...
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... leaves ; yet is described as having them sometimes deeply cut into many short segments ; and what sa- tisfies me more than any thing about the identity of the two in- dividuals , is the fact observed by Mr HENRY SHEPHERD of Li- verpool ...
... leaves ; yet is described as having them sometimes deeply cut into many short segments ; and what sa- tisfies me more than any thing about the identity of the two in- dividuals , is the fact observed by Mr HENRY SHEPHERD of Li- verpool ...
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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