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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... scales , which above change gradually into brac- teas . Spike oblongo - ovate , of numerous , crowded , secund flowers , and these as well as the bracteas , by which their length is equalled or some- times surpassed , are of a fine red ...
... scales , which above change gradually into brac- teas . Spike oblongo - ovate , of numerous , crowded , secund flowers , and these as well as the bracteas , by which their length is equalled or some- times surpassed , are of a fine red ...
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... scale , opening nearly all round , ciliated at the margin . Capsules nume- rous in each cluster , and mixed with a few lanceolate chaffy scales , sphe- rical , pedicellate , reticulated . Annulus incomplete . One of the principal ...
... scale , opening nearly all round , ciliated at the margin . Capsules nume- rous in each cluster , and mixed with a few lanceolate chaffy scales , sphe- rical , pedicellate , reticulated . Annulus incomplete . One of the principal ...
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... scales or stipules at the top , from which the 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 ...
... scales or stipules at the top , from which the 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 ...
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... scales , having within them a bivalved , reniform , coriaceo- membranaceous capsule , of one cell , and containing numerous minute , spherical , yellow , sporules . This elegant species of Lycopodium seems to be very com- mon in North ...
... scales , having within them a bivalved , reniform , coriaceo- membranaceous capsule , of one cell , and containing numerous minute , spherical , yellow , sporules . This elegant species of Lycopodium seems to be very com- mon in North ...
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... Scale of the spike of fruc- tification . Fig . 4. Scale with its bivalved capsule . Fig . 5. Capsule se- parated from the scale . Fig . 6. Seeds . - All but Fig . 1. more or less mag- nified . Doodia aspera 8 Ingia uop DOODIA ASPERA ...
... Scale of the spike of fruc- tification . Fig . 4. Scale with its bivalved capsule . Fig . 5. Capsule se- parated from the scale . Fig . 6. Seeds . - All but Fig . 1. more or less mag- nified . Doodia aspera 8 Ingia uop DOODIA ASPERA ...
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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