Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of Bedford, Arranged According to the System of Linnæus, with Occasional Remarks |
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... color'd , very seldom expanded , leaves ovate , sharp . The whole Plant varies in stature from half an Inch to 3 Inches . Plantain . PLANTAGO . Gen. Pl . 186 . Cup with 4 segments , blossom uniform , with the border reflected . Threads ...
... color'd , very seldom expanded , leaves ovate , sharp . The whole Plant varies in stature from half an Inch to 3 Inches . Plantain . PLANTAGO . Gen. Pl . 186 . Cup with 4 segments , blossom uniform , with the border reflected . Threads ...
Page 79
... color , leaf - scales brown at the base , panicle on one side , scattered . Leers . XIII . 3 . - Heaths and Pastures , July , P. Common . 265. Moss Rush . leafless , clustered . J. squarrosus . Flora Danica . 430 . Stalk naked , leaves ...
... color , leaf - scales brown at the base , panicle on one side , scattered . Leers . XIII . 3 . - Heaths and Pastures , July , P. Common . 265. Moss Rush . leafless , clustered . J. squarrosus . Flora Danica . 430 . Stalk naked , leaves ...
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... color , alternately opposite , petals larger than the cup by the , one half . ( Sibthorpe . ) Petiver . LVIII . 2 . Boggy Ditches , July , P. Rare . Ampthill Bogs , -Ford - End Ditches . 324. Bog Stitchwort . - S. uliginosa . X Males ...
... color , alternately opposite , petals larger than the cup by the , one half . ( Sibthorpe . ) Petiver . LVIII . 2 . Boggy Ditches , July , P. Rare . Ampthill Bogs , -Ford - End Ditches . 324. Bog Stitchwort . - S. uliginosa . X Males ...
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... , greater and smaller leafits in the root - leaves arranged alternately . Petals flesh color- ed , with a notch in the middle , marked with red veins . Cup ma- hogany - colored . Marsblocks . XX Males . Many Females . Ico . Poly . 114.
... , greater and smaller leafits in the root - leaves arranged alternately . Petals flesh color- ed , with a notch in the middle , marked with red veins . Cup ma- hogany - colored . Marsblocks . XX Males . Many Females . Ico . Poly . 114.
Page 115
... color . Seeds with granulations . CLASS . 1 . XIII . Poly . Mc . Many Males . I Female . Character of the XIIIth . Class . Threads fixed to the receptacle . Celandine . CHELIDONIUM . Gen. Pl . 880 . Blossom of 4 petals . Cup of 2 leaves ...
... color . Seeds with granulations . CLASS . 1 . XIII . Poly . Mc . Many Males . I Female . Character of the XIIIth . Class . Threads fixed to the receptacle . Celandine . CHELIDONIUM . Gen. Pl . 880 . Blossom of 4 petals . Cup of 2 leaves ...
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1-celled admirable Agaric Algæ Ampthill April Aspley August Autumn awl-shaped awned Barton Hill Batsch Blossom blunt Bogs Boletus branched Bulliard bunches Byssus Capsule Clapham Park Clapham Park Wood color Common conical convex Cornfields creeping Crust Crypt Curtis cylindrical Decand Dillenius Ditches downy erby Feather-moss female organs Fir Groves flat Flora Danica florets flowers fringed frond fruitstalks Fungi hairy Heaths Hedges January July June leaf leafits leafstalks Leaves heart-shaped leaves ovate leaves spear-shaped leaves winged Leers Liver-wort lobes Males Marshes Martyn Meadows Monoec Mosses Musci Mushrooms nearly round nectary nicked oblong October Panicle Petals Petiver Peziza plant pointed Poly Polyg Polygamy Potton Rare Receptacle naked Road-sides Root rough roundish scolloped Sedge seeds serrated Shoots Silsoe sitting smooth Sowerby Sphæria spike spikelets stalks stem upright Stemless Stevington Stumps Tetr Thread-moss Threads tiled toothed Trees tubercles umbels underneath valves Walls whitish Woodville woolly XXIV yellow
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Page 264 - Shields green yellow, changing to full yellow, border paler, crust greenish, with a tinge of yellow, somewhat tiled.
Page 90 - Leaves heart-arrow-shaped, stem nearly upright, without prickles, angles of the seeds even.
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Page 348 - Crust rather leather-like, stems very short, heads or seeds roundish, white, yellow or scarlet.
Page 238 - Capsules cylindrical, lids taper-pointed, fruitstalks terminating, shoot branched, upright, leaves spear-shaped, rather expanding.
Page 170 - L. autumnale. Stem branched, fruitstalks scaly, leaves spearshaped, toothed, very entire, smooth.