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... three outer little white leaves spread out and the inner ones stand up . They are all streaked with green , and you will find six stamens with very short filaments or stalks , on which the little anthers or little dust - bags are fixed ...
... three outer little white leaves spread out and the inner ones stand up . They are all streaked with green , and you will find six stamens with very short filaments or stalks , on which the little anthers or little dust - bags are fixed ...
Page 75
... three times before the sun had risen . The tree was split open sufficiently to let the body of the child be pushed through without its clothes , and after this was done three times the tree was carefully bound up ; and as the tree ...
... three times before the sun had risen . The tree was split open sufficiently to let the body of the child be pushed through without its clothes , and after this was done three times the tree was carefully bound up ; and as the tree ...
Page 85
... three together on one stalk on a plant bearing other single - stalked primroses ; and also cowslip flowers on single short stalks , amidst tiny clusters of cups generally found on cowslip stalks . I love the primrose almost better than ...
... three together on one stalk on a plant bearing other single - stalked primroses ; and also cowslip flowers on single short stalks , amidst tiny clusters of cups generally found on cowslip stalks . I love the primrose almost better than ...
Page 91
... see , grow all along a stalk , making what is called a raceme from three to eight inches long . When the flowers are in bud , the stems stand up erect , but as the flowers expand , they droop downwards and hang their heads ; and when.
... see , grow all along a stalk , making what is called a raceme from three to eight inches long . When the flowers are in bud , the stems stand up erect , but as the flowers expand , they droop downwards and hang their heads ; and when.
Page 105
... three seeds . But it is not till quite late in the summer or the autumn that we find the arum thus changed . In the early spring it is as we see it here , with the beautiful spathe rising up amidst the ele- gantly - shaped , spotted ...
... three seeds . But it is not till quite late in the summer or the autumn that we find the arum thus changed . In the early spring it is as we see it here , with the beautiful spathe rising up amidst the ele- gantly - shaped , spotted ...
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