Lessons with Plants: Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the Common Forms of Vegetation |
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Common terms and phrases
akene anthers apple attached axils base bean bear berry blade body borne botany bracts branches called calyx carex carpels catkins cluster common compound compound leaf corolla cotyledons cyme dandelion dehiscence determine developed distinct essential organs fact florets flower-cluster foliage fruit fruit-bud garden grape grasses grow growth hepatica inflorescence insects involucre kinds of plants known leaf leaf-buds leaf-like leaflets leaves Let the pupil limb lobes locules maple mature method mustard observe ovary ovules peach pear pedicels peduncle perianth pericarp petal-like petals petiole phyllodia phyllotaxy pine pinnate pistil pistillate flowers placentæ plum pollen portion raceme receptacle root scales scars sedges seeds seen sepals shoot shown in Fig shows side buds spike spring spur squash stalk stamens stamens and pistils staminate flowers stem stigma strawberry structure styles suggest SUGGESTIONS.-The pupil teacher terminal bud tion tomato tree tulip twig Vernation willow
Popular passages
Page viii - It is wholly informal and unsystematic, the same as the objects are which one sees. It is entirely divorced from definitions, or from explanations in books. It is therefore supremely natural. It simply trains the eye and the mind to see and to comprehend the common things of life ; and the result is not directly the acquirement of science but the establishment of a living sympathy with everything that is.
Page 320 - ... came out of the seed and did not grow out of the plant itself. We must notice, too, that these leaves are much smaller when they are first drawn out of the seed than they are when the plantlet has straightened itself up. That is, these leaves increase very much in size after they reach the light and air.
Page 75 - E to 28. Flowers were borne at 4 and 5, but at 4 the fruit fell early, for the five or six scars of the flowers can be seen, showing that no one of them developed more strongly than the other ; that is, none of the flowers " set." A fairly good fruit was probably borne at 5. At the base of each, a bud started to continue the spur next year. Upon the other spur, flowers were borne both at 8 and 10. At 10 none of the flowers set fruit, but a side bud developed.
Page 318 - A day or two after the seeds are planted, we shall find a little point or root-like portion breaking out of the sharp end of the seed, as shown in Fig.