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... trees will be required , as the flowers are declinous and diœcious . The cuts represent the male and female flowers of the Great Sallow . You find the flowers arranged in spikes , which , being deciduous and bearing imperfect flowers ...
... trees will be required , as the flowers are declinous and diœcious . The cuts represent the male and female flowers of the Great Sallow . You find the flowers arranged in spikes , which , being deciduous and bearing imperfect flowers ...
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... tree - viz . the Apple and Willow . Another , the Bramble , is a shrub . These three differ from the rest , in the formation of a distinctly woody stem , which does not die down each season . On this account we may speak of them as ...
... tree - viz . the Apple and Willow . Another , the Bramble , is a shrub . These three differ from the rest , in the formation of a distinctly woody stem , which does not die down each season . On this account we may speak of them as ...
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... trees and herbaceous plants , though in many , by arrest or by repeated branching , it loses , more or less , its character as a proper tap - root . In the Carrot and Beet , the tap - root thickening very much becomes fusiform in shape ...
... trees and herbaceous plants , though in many , by arrest or by repeated branching , it loses , more or less , its character as a proper tap - root . In the Carrot and Beet , the tap - root thickening very much becomes fusiform in shape ...
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... trees , as Palms , never or rarely develop any other than a terminal leafy bud , excepting when they form a flowering branch . The consequence is , that their stems remain unbranched . We have already referred to the distinction between ...
... trees , as Palms , never or rarely develop any other than a terminal leafy bud , excepting when they form a flowering branch . The consequence is , that their stems remain unbranched . We have already referred to the distinction between ...
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... trees , is quite gradual . Compare , in this respect , Monkshood , Cranesbill , Butter- cup , Carnation , Fuchsia , Bramble , and Lavender . The forms of stem and the direction which they assume above ground are exceedingly varied ...
... trees , is quite gradual . Compare , in this respect , Monkshood , Cranesbill , Butter- cup , Carnation , Fuchsia , Bramble , and Lavender . The forms of stem and the direction which they assume above ground are exceedingly varied ...
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