RM2CEM490–. Second report on the Hymeniales of Connecticut. ropus 6. Cap 1 inch broad; stem with a close white tomentum at base C. unitinctus Cap 1 to 3 inches broad, slightly fibrillose; oftengrowing in greenhouses. C. tardus AGARICUS Linn. Stem terminating in an abrupt bulb A. abruptus Stem not distinctly bulbous 1 1. Cap thin 2 Cap fleshy 3 2. Cap yellow-white, fibrillose-silky A. comptulus Cap white, brown in center, covered with minute brown scales A. placomyces 3. Gills narrow, rounded behind A. Rodmani Gills broad 4 4. Gills at first white; ring on stem large and thick A. arvensisGills at first p
RM2CE0NY6–. A preliminary report on the Hymeniales of Connecticut . cro pus 6. Cap I inch broad; stem with a close white tomentum at base C, unitinctus Cap I to 3 inches broad, slightly fibrillose; oftengrowing in greenhouses C. tardus AGARICUS Linn. Stem terminating in an abrupt bulb A. abrnptus Stem not distinctly bulbous i 1. Cap thin 2 Cap fleshy 3 2. Cap yellow-white, fibrillose-silky A. comptulus Cap white, brown in center, covered with minute brown scales A. placomyces 3. Gills narrow, rounded behind A. Rodmani Gills broad 4 4. Gills at first white; ring on stem large and thick A. arvensisGills a
RMREKKBG–. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. LINACEAE 271) and the stigmas terminal. The fruit is a capsule (except in some of the Hugonieae where it is drupaceous) surrounded at the base by the persistent calyx, and splitting septicidally into as many valves as there are carpels, or into double the number when false septa divide each carpel into two chambers. The seeds have a fleshy endosperm in which the usually straight embryo is embedded. The leaves are alternate, or rarely opposite, simple, entire, with small stipules or exstipulate. The form of the inflorescence varies, and is cymos
RMRDHMFD–. Elementary botany . Botany. i6o DICOTYLEDONS fructescence, fig. 201). Pollination.—The honey is secreted along the posterior middle line of the corolla («) by the fleshy part of the base of the tube, and collects there. As the corolla-tube is long, the honey can be fully reached only. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Groom, Percy, 1865-1931. London : G. Bell
RMRD9MMT–. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 302 UMBELLIEEBAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) Quite as poisonous as the preceding plant and probably the cause of more fatalities. Roots two to four inches long, thick, fleshy, tuberous, bunched in a cluster (fasciculated) at the swollen base of the stem. These are especially dangerous, for their taste is pleasantly aromatic, somewhat like that of its harmless relative, Sweet Cicely, for which they are sometimes
RMRJ46GM–. The ferns of North America [microform] : colored figures and descriptions, with synonymy and geographical distribution, of the ferns (including the ophioglassaceae) of the United States of America and the British North American possessions. Ferns; Fougères. FERNS OF NORTH AMERICA. 131 whole, more commonly two-thirds to three-fourths,and sometimes as much as five-sixths. It is either slender or moderately stout, usually fleshy, and somewhat enlarged at the base, where it encloses the bud for the growth of the next year or two. The bud is smooth, and in it " the apex of the fertile frond
RMREK6GW–. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. PYROLACEAE 433 Monotropoideae the dehiscence is by slits and the pollen is simple. The corolla and stamens are often inserted at the edge of a nectar-secreting disc, which is sometimes represented by separate nectaries or is rarely completely absent. The fieshy ovary bears a simple columnar style; in some genera of Monotropoideae it is unilocular except at the extreme base, but generally the septa are wanting only in the upper part of the chamber. The ovary-cavity is almost filled by the thick fleshy placenta, the surface of which is crowded wi
RMRGWJ70–. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. IXTRACALICARY ORGANS. 19 which separate the calyx lobes. They are somewhat thickened and fleshy at the base, but become very thin toward the apex. Like other parts of the calyx they are well spotted with oil glands and have faint veinlets radiating from a transparent median line. The fact that these organs are frequently adherent to the calyx lobes and that they often have a transparent median line, somewhat like the sutures that separate the lobes, suggests that they may repre- sent ingrown margins of the calyx lobes. Or they may be considered as
RMRH1677–. Bulletin. Agriculture. l^TliACALlCARY ORGANS. 19 which separate the calyx lobes. They are somewhat thickened and fleshy at the base, but become very thin toward the apex. Like other parts of the calyx they are well spotted with oil glands and have faint veinlets radiating from a transparent median line. The fact that these organs are frequently adherent to the calyx lobes and that they often have a transparent median line, somewhat like the sutures that separate the lobes, suggests that they may repre- sent ingrown margins of the calyx lobes. Or they may be considered as stipular elements of
RMRPT0GG–. Corals and coral islands. Coral reefs and islands; Corals. 42 CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS. II. CORAL-MAKIjSG ACTINOID POLYPS. Of the form, tentacles, mouth, stomach, fleshy septa, lasso- cells, food, digestion and respiration of the coral-making polyps here included, nothing need here be said, these characters being the same as in the Actiniae. Their more striking peculiarities depend on the secretion of coral, making them fixed species, and involving an absence of the base; and, in the case of the majority of the species, on the extent to which they multiply by buds, in imitation of species in
RMRDD0KN–. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 394 CBASSULA CRAT^GUS but cultivation probably changes the number of parts not infrequently. Crassulas are herbs or shrubs, rarely annuals, usually thick and fleshy: Ivs. opposite, rarely stalked, often grown together at the base, entire or with a cartilaginous margin: fls. small, white, rose, or rarely yellow,
RMRDHCT8–. Botany for academies and colleges: consisting of plant development and structure from seaweed to clematis. Botany; 1889. 44 ACADEMIC BOTANY. at its base {d, e); this is a thickening of the torus, or the end of the flower-stalk, the ovules growing singly, or sometimes in pairs, at the end of the flower-stalks. There is but one seed-coat (testa). This becomes fleshy, as in the Cycas, and is edible. The embryo has two coty- ledons, separate throughout. The leaves are fork-veined, and so like those of the Maidenhair Fern (compare with Fig. 34) that the specific name adiantifoUa is given to the t
RMRH2R4G–. British trees. Trees. THE APPLE TREE. 239 receptacle now increases rapidly in size, and becomes fleshy ; the weight of the fruit presently causes it to become inverted. In the mature fruit the sepals are still to be seen in the eye or hollow at the top of the apple, opposite the hollow at the base into which the stalk is inserted. The inner dry part of the ovary with the five seeds make up the core. The Apple Tree is usually in flower by the middle of May, and about September the green fruit turns to yellow, red and brown. There are numberless varieties of apples, some with polished cheeks,
RMRDWCKJ–. Botany, with agricultural applications. Botany. 448 SPERMATOPHYTES (SEED PLANTS) when they are short and fleshy, they fit together Uke the kernels on an ear of Corn. The ovules are borne separately near the base of the megasporophyll and as shown in Figure 398. In some Cycads each megasporophyll bears only two ovules, while in others, as Figure 398 shows, a larger number may be present. In some Cycads the megasporophylls are much branched like foliage leaves, and the sporangia appear to be transformed lower branches or pinnae. Megasporophylls of this type suggest the relation- ship of sporop
RMRR06W8–. Agriculture of New York: comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks, and the natural waters of the different geological formations; together with a condensed view of the climate and the agricultural productions of the state. Agriculture; Natural history. OF SUMMER PEARS. 133 G4. SIEULLE. Fiff. H. Fiiiil of the medium size, roundisli; body prolonged to the base ; sides tapering, with a regular convexity ; base indent- ed, bearing a stout stem, fleshy at its insertion. Color pale yellow, tinged with red on the cheelc, sometimes the cheek is
RMRDTRTW–. The principles of botany, as exemplified in the phanerogamia. Botany; Botany; Phanerogams; 1854. 194 COMPOUND ORGANS OF PLANTS. Fig. 91.. Fig. 91. Fruit of strawberry, (Fragaria veaca,) showing the carpels or achenia on the surface of its enlarged and fleshy receptacle. Each achenium has a style and stigma, and is thus at once distingui^^hed from a seed. The calyx is seen at the base of the receptacle. cellulo-vascular bed of fibres and parenchyma. The exterior membrane of the pericarp is called the epicarp, (irti upon, jtaprtof fruit,) and corresponds to the lower epidermis of the leaf. Thi
RMRDEY9K–. Handbook of flower pollination : based upon Hermann MuÌller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' . Fertilization of plants. BERBERIDEAE â V. ORDER BERBERIDEAE VENT. 29. Berberis L. Homogamous flowers with half-concealed nectar, arranged in dense racemes, so that in spite of the relative smallness of the individual blossoms, they are very conspicuous in the aggregate. The inner sides of both sepals and petals are yellow m colour. Nectar is secreted by two fleshy swellings on the inner side of each petal near its base, and owing to the concave shape of the corolla these are tolerab
RMRDH6RH–. Morphology of gymnosperms. Gymnosperms; Plant morphology. CYCADALES 129 endosperm is differentiated into an endosperm jacket or tapetum as conspicuous as the tapetum of any fern or angiosperm microsporan- gium. In the mature seed the outer fleshy layer remains fresh for a while, and then either dries or decays. All the sporophytic tissue within the stony layer, including the irmer fleshy layer, the nucellus, and the base of the ovule, becomes reduced to a thin dry membrane in which the bundles of the inner vascular system are the most notice- able feature.. 123 124 Figs. 123-125.—Dioon edule
RMRDG3J4–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 8AP1NDA0EJE. 349 Sapindus Saponaria.. Fig. 353. Longitudinal sec- tion of frait. three tmiovulate cells, more or less separated from each otter above and outwardly, surmounted by a style divided at its summit into three stigmatiferous lobes. The ovule, inserted near the base of the internal angle of each cell, is ascendent, anatropous, with the micropyle inferior and exterior.^ In the ripe fruit usually only one of the cells "is developed into a fleshy or coriaceous pericarp, indehiscent, globular or nearly so, accompanied at the base by the undeve
RMRDMPWW–. A year of sport and natural history, shooting, hunting, coursing, falconry and fishing. Hunting; Fishing; Falconry; Birds. BIRD NESTING. 97 fed by the parents, first of all with disgorged food and afterwards with small fish. The bill of the Puffin is very remarkable, and gives the idea of its being able to inflict a severe bite, but its power of doing this has been exaggerated, for during life the edges of the mandibles are somewhat fleshy. A very remarkable cir-. IHE PUFFIN. cumstance has been noticed with regard to the bill of this bird. During life it is yellow at the base, blue in the ce
RMRJ3YMC–. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. Oenui Papilio marked affinities throughout the whole vast assemblage of spe- cies, which at the present time includes about five hundred dis- tinct forms. Early Stages.—The eggs are somewhat globular, flattened at the base, and smooth. The caterpillars are cylindrical, smooth, fleshy, thicker in the anterior portion of the body than in the posterior portion, and are always provided with osmateria, or protrusive scent-organs, which, when the larva is alarmed, are thrust
RMRN71A8–. The anatomy of the human body. Human anatomy; Anatomy. 332 SPLANCHNOLOGY. arrangement of these muscles, and to follow the ascending and deseending fibres which emerge from or enter into the velum. The Azygos Uvula, or Palato-staphylini. The palato-staphylini (a, fig. 141) are two small, fleshy, cylindrical bands placed in Fig. 141. contact, one on each side of the median line, and extending from the posterior nasal spine, or, rather, from the aponeuro- sis continuous with it, to the base of the uvula. They are covered by the mucous membrane of the nose, under which they form a projection, an
RMREDH9K–. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal kingdom.. Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal plants.. 20 THE COMPLETE HERBALIST. leaves are very curiously constructed. They have broad leaf-like petioles, at whose extremity there are two fleshy tubes, which form the real leaf, and which are armed with strong-, sharp spines, three on the blade of each lobe, and a fringe of larger spines round the margin. When an insect touches the base of the central spines the leaf c
RMRD3PE2–. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 394 CRASSULA CRAT^GUS but cultivation probably changes the number of parts not infrequently. Crassulas are herbs or shrubs, rarely annuals, usually thick and fleshy: Ivs. opposite, rarely stalked, often grown together at the base, entire or with a cartilaginous margin: fis. small, white, rose, or rarely yellow,
RMRJC14C–. Cephalopoda. Cephalopoda. A fleshy fold passes laterally and upward along the mantle groove, from the base of the outer side of each gill (Figure 16). On each side, both folds are fused into a flat ridge on the mantle (Figures 15 and 16W). These branchial attachments displace the gill bases mechanically to the side below the attachment of the cephalopodial retractors. Embryological studies of Dibranchiata and comparison v/ith other molluscs show that the branchial attachments are not primary parts of the gills. In some young stages of Dibranchiata the branchial attachments resemble those of
RMRDWGDE–. Flower ecology. Plant ecology; Fertilization of plants. 47 Flowers very commonly polygamous or dio- ecious, flowers greenish, inconspicuous, but very fragrant ovary with an adnate fleshy disk of five nectar glands which secrete the nectar. This bears the petals and stamens, calyx short The stamens held by the petals which separate only at base, which forms a kind of a head, when mature the stamens are released, thus allowing the poller to be thrown on the insect.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colo
RMRDEY9T–. Handbook of flower pollination : based upon Hermann MuÌller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' . Fertilization of plants. I20 AyClOSPERMAEâDlCOTYLEDONES causing the displacement of two antlieis. The apex of the anther-cone is conse- quently opened, and pollen is sprinkled on the under-side of the visitor. Even repeated visits do not permanently open the cone, for the short filaments are broad, and fleshy inwardly directed pouches of the corolla (which surround the base of the cone) direct the stamens back to their original position. The pollen received by bees from younger flow
RMRDBFD3–. British edible fungi: how to distinguish and how to cook them. With coloured figures of upwards to forty species. Mushrooms, Edible. EXPLANATORY. 21 under examination has a ring or not. The stem is sometimes solid throughout, and sometimes hollow in the centre ; and in a few cases is so short as to be scarcely visible. There is sometimes a loose, or fixed, volva, or sheath, at the base of the stem, but it is only present in one or two species which are edible, and is not shown in the woodcut. In passing,. it may be remarked that, although the greater number of fleshy fungi have the radiating
RMRHDG3R–. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. KAULFUSSfA. 349 auricled (eared) at the base. The central leaflet is from Gin. to 12in, in length and Sin. to 4in. in breadth, is oblong-spoon-shaped, and has nearly entire edges ; the other leaflets, of similar shape, are smaller and often unequal- sided and lobed. The texture is soft and fleshy, and the copious, roundish
RMRPEJA8–. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 211 first feed npoii the pareiichj'nica or soft fleshy parts of the leaves, but afiei-wards devour in- differentlj', not only any portion of the leaves,' but also the blossoin-bud and blossom, together with the calyx leaves at the base of the boll, tluis causing the lobes which hold the cotton to fall entirely back and allow the cotton to fall at the slightest touch. "While young these worms readily let themselves down by a web when disturbed, but when older they make less use of this web, and jerk themselves away to a co
RMRDCY5B–. Botany for agricultural students . Botany. 448 SPERMATOPHYTES (SEED PLANTS) when they are short and fleshy, they fit together Hke the kernels on an ear of Corn. The ovules are borne separately near the base of the megasporophyll and as shown in Figure 398. In some Cycads each megasporophyll bears only two ovules, while in others, as Figure 398 shows, a larger number may be present. In some Cycads the megasporophylls are much branched like fohage leaves, and the sporangia appear to be transformed lower branches or pinnae. Megasporophylls of this type suggest the relation- ship of sporophylls
RMRE7TXH–. Corals and coral islands. Coral reefs and islands; Corals. 22 CORALS AND CORAL LSLANDS. Each of these characters is evidence of the superior grade of this division of polyps. II. CORAL-MAKING ACTINOID POLYPS. Of the form, tentacles, mouth, stomach, fleshy septa, lasso- cells, food, digestion and respiration of the coral-making polyps here included, nothing need here be said, these characters being the same as in the Actinise. Their more striking pecu- liarities depend on the secretion of coral, making them fixed species, and involving an absence of the base ; and, in the. CAKVOPHYLLIA CYATHU
RMRE7TNY–. Corals and coral islands. Coral reefs and islands; Corals. 42 CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS. II. CORAL-MAKING ACTLNOID POLYPS. Of the form, tentacles, mouth, stomach, fleshy septa, lasso- €ells, food, digestion and respiration of the coral-making polyps here included, nothing need here be said, these characters being the same as in the Actiniae. Their more striking peculiarities depend on the secretion of coral, making them fixed species, and involving an absence of the base; and, in the case of the majority of the species, on the extent to which they multiply by buds, in imitation of species in
RMRDY709–. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 65 bous, while those of the epiphytes are fibrous and wiry, enabling them to become firmly attached to the suppoi^t. The leaves are sheath- ing at base, often fleshy, occasionally reduceid to scales. The flowers are very generally conspicuous and handsomely colored; even when small and of dull hues their beauty" of form attracts attention. In order to discuss floral structure in the orchids it will be neces- sary to explain a number of terms which are in use to indicate special modifications of the peri
RMRDGPK4–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 328 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Coccocypselum and Synaptantha are connected with Oldenlandia by- other sections. The former, whose flower is tetramerous, having a valvate corolla and two ovarian cells, with a globular placenta supported by a foot attached to the base or near the middle of the partition, is an American Hedyatis the pericarp of which becomes more or less fleshy, although its two halves often separate at maturity. The latter is rather an Australian Hedyotis in which the apical independence of the ovary or of the fruit is more marked than in
RMRJ4W69–. The illustrated stock doctor and live-stock encyclopedia [microform] : including horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry : with all the facts concerning the various breeds and their characteristics... and all diseases to which they are subject...the prevention of any disease, and restoration of health. Domestic animals; Veterinary medicine; Livestock breeds; Bees; Animaux domestiques; Bétail; Médecine vétérinaire; Abeilles. AFRICAN OOOaB. along the sides, and at the base, on top rises a round, fleshy tubeivlc, of a bright vermilion color, and under the throat is a hard, firm, flcHhy membran
RMRDG386–. The natural history of plants. Botany. LYTHRJRIACE^. 431 Lythrim, virgalum. bearing a great number of ascending and anatropous ovules, with niieropyle inferior and exterior. The fruit, around which persists the receptacular tube, is a bilocular membranous capsule, septicidal or opening irregularly at maturity, the numerous seeds of which contain under their coats a fleshy embryo, with plano-convex coty- ledons, auriculate at base, and a conical in- ferior radicle. The Salicarias are herbaceous plants or shrubby at the base, glabrous or covered with hairs, with tetragonal branches, opposite,
RMRDGT9W–. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. i. Diagram. Fig. 5. Longitudinal section of flower. placenta, which is in the internal angle of each cell, supports, at its base, two ascendiug anatropal ovules, with micropyle directed downwards and outwards.^ The fruit is a four-angled capsule, depressed at the summit, one or more of the cells of which, dehiscing along their dorsal suture, contain one or more, rarely two, seeds enveloped in a fleshy and coloured aril,* and enclosing under their coats a fleshy albumen, the axis of which is occupied by an embryo (often green), with an inferior cyli
RMRDRA8A–. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 466 orchid-grower's manual. L. BICOLOR, Lindl.—A neat and pretty epiphyte, with a creeping rhizome, from which grow up several slender stems, which are about an inch long, and almost cylindrical, and terminatedby a solitary terete recurved fleshy leaf, which is grooved on,'the. upper'side. The peduncle with a solitary flower rises from the base of the leaf, the flower itself having a very long pedunculi- form ovary. ^ The sepals and petals are linear- oblbh
RMRDEFE3–. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. THE SLOTH 263 and a long tail. It measures about three and a half feet from the root of the tail to the end of the snout; the tail is a foot and three-quarters long, and is very thick at the base, but tapering towards the point. There are four toes to each fore-foot and five to each hind-foot, all provided with large strong claws, flattened horizon- tally and hollowed out underneath. The tongue is thick and fleshy, and much less vermiform than that of the ant-eater and pangolins; but the spittle-glands are still. Fig. 73.. THE AARD VAR
RMRDGCXD–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 202 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. a somewliat rounded linear pod, surmounted by a point formed by the persistent base of the style, and dehiscing into two thin obliquely-striate valves; it contains in its single cavity an indefinite Moiinia Paevdacacia {^Garden Acacia).. Vm. 159. Ploriferous branch {). number of transverse oblong seeds with fleshy exalbuminous embryos. Galena consists of perennial herbs, glabrous or nearly so. Their alternate imparipinnate leaves have entire leaflets and unsymmetrical lateral stipules, often greatly developed. The flowers
RMRMKJC2–. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. CRANIAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE DIGYNODONT GENUS LYSTROSAURUS 191 rugosities and depressions, and she speculates on the possibiHty of this bone forming the base of a muscular mechanism whereby the fleshy nostril could be closed when the animal was feeding off submerged plant matter. There is a very strong likelihood that a similar mechanism was present in the semi-aquatic Lystrosauriis, a possibility first mentioned by Watson (1912). In this connection it is interesting to note that whereas in Daptocephalu
RMRDH6A7–. Morphology of gymnosperms. Gymnosperms; Plant morphology. CONIFERALES (PINACEAE) 245 base, and two inverted basal ovules (figs. 270, 271). Among the Taxodineae and Cupressineae there is a single bract or scale structure with two distinct apices (dorso-ventral) at the free and enlarged end and bearing one (Juniperus) to many (Cupressus) ovules. In Juniperus this structure becomes fleshy in the organization of the so-called "berry." Among the Araucarineae there is a prominent bract, a ligule-like ovuliferous scale, which is obvious in Araucaria, but absent or, according to Aase (233)
RMRDGNPW–. On the anatomy of vertebrates. Vertebrates; Anatomy, Comparative; 1866. HEART OF REPTILES. 511 not only by the ordinary valve on its left side, which is attached to the base of the auricular septum, but by a similar though smaller fold on the opposite or right side: this fold becomes the fleshy auriculo-ventricular valve in birds. To the junction of the two valves at their lower angle a fleshy column is attached. The ventricular cavity, ib. E, which receives the venous blood, propels it to the left aorta. A, and to the pulmonary artery, P: tlie origin of each is guarded by a pair of semiluna
RMRHDHYA–. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. BOTRYCHIUM. 19 a flattened rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) into five or six pairs of somewliat fan-slia^Ded, short-stalked leaflets of a thick, fleshy texture and pale milky-green colour ; each leaflet is scalloped (toothed) on the edge and usually more or less lobed at the base. The fertile peduncle usually equals and
RMRN726W–. The anatomy of the human body. Human anatomy; Anatomy. 212 MYOLOGY. The Pyramidalis. The pyramidalis {d,fig. 110), a small triangular muscle which is often deficient, occu- pies the lower part of the abdomcu on each side of the linea alba. It arises from the pubis and the anterior ligament of the symphysis by tendinous fibres, from which the fleshy portion proceeds upward, the internal fibres vertically, the external obliquely up- ward and inward, and terminates by a pointed extremity, which is attached to the linea alba, and forms the apex of the muscle, the base being at the os pubis. It i
RMRDT90E–. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 7S NYMPHAEACEAE. leathery several-seeded a sac at the base of the lanceolate. Ovules very numerous on the walls of the ovary. Fruit berry. Seeds often shining, with the embr}0 enclosed in fleshy endosperm. Five genera and about 45 species, widely distributed in fresh water. Petals small or minute ; stamens hypogynous. i. Nymphaea. Petals large, numerous ; stamens epig
RMRDE84Y–. Handbook of flower pollination : based upon Hermann Mu?ller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' . Fertilization of plants. i84 ANGIOSPERMAE—DICOTYLEDONES xxxviii, 1896; Schulz, 'Beitrage,' II, pp. 46—7; Kirchner, 'Flora v. Stuttgart,' P- 235.)—Hermann Miiller describes the flowers as protogynous, with stigmas persisting for a long time, while A. Schulz found them to be almost always homogamous, though sometimes slightly protandrous or slightly protogynous. At the base of each of the five outer stamens there is a fleshy swelling, which secretes a relatively large drop of nectar.
RMRDG3MW–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 280 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Anisomallon clussitefolium.. T?ig. 329. Longitudinal section of fruit (f). and for th,e same reasdn, tliere is a difference of growth, in their different portions. The sear of the style approaches therefore more or less to the base of the fruit, which, in Apod^tes, may present on each side a small fleshy thickening. In the Anisomallon, iohabiting New Caledonia, this swelling becomes considerable, as voluminous as the fruit itself, a drupe with flesh of little thickness, accompanied on the side of the recurved micropyle by
RMRDHCJR–. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. HYDRA 275 The coral polyp does not differ essentially from Metridium. But it has the habit of secreting lime at its base, so that, in com-se of time, a high cup is built up. The top of the cup bears radial septa,' which are laid down in the interspaces between the fleshy partitions such as are found in jIctridiian. Since most corals, like hydroids, bud freely, and since every bud secretes coral at its base, an extensive and complicated limy mass may be produced. This is the way in which the brain corals an
RMREKE5T–. Our ferns in their haunts [microform] : a guide to all the native species. Ferns; Fougères. THH MOONVVORT AND ITS ALLIES. times pinnate. The plant often shows a remarkable tendency to double the fertile spike, and specimens with three complete fertile panicles, each on a separate stalk, are not rare. The rootstock, as in all the Botrychiums, is short and sends out numerous fleshy roots. The base of the living stipe com- pletely encloses the buds for succef>ding years. Frequently the buds for four years to come may be discerned. The rootstock is reported to occasionally bear two fronds as
RMRH9JK3–. Botany for ladies; or, A popular introduction to the natural system of plants, according to the classification of De Candolle. Plants -- Classification. CHAP. Vi.] CYNAROCEPHAL^. 103 TRIBE II=—CYNAROCEPHAL^. Florets tubular. Juice watery, tonic. The plants in this division all bear more or less relation to the common Artichoke (Cynara Scoli/mus). The scales of the involucre are generally fleshy at the base, but terminate out- wardly in a sharp hard point. The florets are tubular, and intermixed with them in the recep- tacle are frequently found the hardened bracts, which in this state are ca
RMRH29PR–. British plants : their biology and ecology. Plants; Plant ecology. LONGEVITY OF PLANTS 111 stem or root. In the potato (Fig. 30) the tubers are the swollen tips of underground stems, and the " eyes " upon them are the buds. In the dahlia some of the roots which grow from the base of the stem become tuberous. In the lesser celandine and some orchids, buds at the base of the stem develop an adventitious root which becomes large and tuberous. The fleshy tuberous roots of biennials are generally complex structures. The part from which the buds arise is stem. In the carrot and turnip th
RMRDW02G–. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. ON PLANT PROPAGATION. 949 The term "tuber" is widely applied to several fleshy tuber like roots, such as Dahlias, &c, but this is incorrect, for if those roots were cut into pieces, they would not give a new plant unless a shoot of the crown were attached to them. On proper tubers the eyes, or buds, are found all round them. Stolons, or Runners, are a kind of branches, arising mostly from the base of the stock plant, remaining, in most cases, on the ground or soil and rooting at their tips, the tips fin
RMREF4DJ–. Comparative zoology, structural and systematic : for use in schools and colleges. Zoology; Anatomy, Comparative; Physiology, Comparative. VERTE B RATA. 337 10. Psittaci, or Parrots.—These birds have a strong, arched upper bill, with a cere at the base, a fleshy, thick,. Fig. 322.—Head of a Fly-catcher (Tyrannus). and movable tongue, and paired toes. They have, usual- ly, brilliant plumage. They live in trees and feed on fruits. Such are the Parrots, Paroquets, and Cockatoos. 11. Insessores, or Perchers.—This order is the most nu-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
RMRPT0H3–. Corals and coral islands. Coral reefs and islands; Corals. ACTINIA AND OTHER AGTINOID POLYPS, 27 exterior skin, reticularly corrugated, occasionally becomes a surface of suction-warts, as in many Sagartiae. The internal structure of the Actinia is radiate like the ex- ternal, and more profoundly and constantly so. The mouth, a fleshy toothless opening in the disk, opens directly into a stomach, which descends usually about a third of the way to the base of the body; its sides are closed together unless it be in use. The general cavity of the body around and be- low the stomach is divided rad
RMRH9MX2–. Botanisk tidsskrift. Plants; Plants -- Denmark. — 19 — and the ramuli, which are few and scattered, taper very much to the base and are attenuated to an acute point". From this thin base the branches grow quickly thicker, cyhndrical, keeping about the same thickness upwards and end in a broadly rounded apex. The diameter of the branches is about 4 mm. The plant has a nice, clear-rose colour; it is diaphanous, of a some- what fleshy, succulent consistency. On a transverse section (Fig. 11 A) we find that most part of the tissue consists of large, clear and thin- walled cells; outside the
RMRDDCP7–. Handbook of flower pollination : based upon Hermann Mu?ller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' . Fertilization of plants. 4IO ANGIOSPERMAE—DICOTYLEDONES of them as protogynous-homogamous. I found only homogamous flowers in the neighbourhood of Kiel. Each blossom is in the form of a shallow cup, 5-7 mm. in diameter; from the middle of this the two projecting styles (about i mm. long) project and curve outwards. They carry the somewhat thickened smooth stigmas at their tips, and are surrounded at the base by a broad, fleshy, yellowish disk, on which numerous drops of nectar sprea
RMRN803J–. Anatomy of the cat. Cats; Mammals. i84 THE MUSCLES. Relations.—Outer surface with the flexor profundus. Inner surface with the radius, uhia, and interosseous membrane. Action as indicated by the name. A. 4. Muscles of the Hand. Between the Tendons.—Mm. lumbricales (Fig. 88, f, /').—Four small muscle in the palm of the hand. Origin by fleshy fibres from the outer (palmar) surface of the tendon common to tlie ulnar four parts of the profundus {c'). Insej'tion if')-—The four slips are flat at their origin. Each becomes cylindrical and curves about the base of one of the four ulnar digits and is
RMRD7T08–. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. PEAR DISEASES 1635 tions through water-sprouts and low fruit spurs. Water-sprouts coining up from the root system, even at some distance from the base of the tree, have caused fatal infections. Fruit spurs, when lo- cated on the body or main forks and be- coming infected, soon introduce the germs into the thick, fleshy bark, which carries much of
RMRDH90M–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 440 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. is surmounted by a style almost immediately divided into three or four elongate lobes, in tbe form of thick, flat, fleshy strips, obtuse at the summit, expanded, then reflexed on the top of the ovary; all their upper surface is covered with fine stigmatic papillae. In each of the three or four (com- Psiioxijion mauntianwn. pj^g^g qj. gometimes rather incomplete) cells of the ovary, there is an axile and multiovulate placen- ta. The fruit is a small berry nearly globular, accompanied at its base by the calyx, and the numero
RMRDM8NA–. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 7S NYMPHAEACEAE. Vol. II. Ovules very numerous on the walls of the ovary. Fruit a leathery several-seeded berry. Seeds often shining, with the embryo enclosed in a sac at the base of the fleshy endosperm. Five genera and about 45 species, widely distributed in fresh water. Petals small or minute ; stamens hypogynous. Petals large, numerous ; stamens epigynous.
RMRE1P59–. Flowers of the field. Botany. WOODBINE TRIBE 135 Natural Order XL CAPRIFOLIACE^.—The Woodbine Tribe Calyx attached to the ovary, usually with bracts at the base ; corolla regular or irregular, 4 to 5-cleft; stamem equal in number to the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them ; ovary 3 to 5-celled ; stigmas 1-3 ; fruit usually fleshy, crowned by the calyx. This tribe comprises shrubs and herbaceous plants of very different habits, and is interesting from containing the fragrant Honeysuckle or Woodbine, and the elegant little plant which Linnaeus fixed on to commemorate his name. They ar
RMRDH6HM–. Morphology of gymnosperms. Gymnosperms; Plant morphology. igS MORPHOLOGY OF GYMNOSPERMS sporophyll. The evidence from "abnormalities," which may be interpreted as reversions, together with the testimony of the vascular. Fig. 225.—Ginkgo biloba: abnormalities in ovulate structure; a, bud; b, nearly normal strobilus; c, leaf with irregular thickenings; d, leaves bearing ovules; /, thicken- ing at base of ovule; g, longitudinal striation along the fleshy part of the seed.—After Fujil (17). anatomy, strongly support the view that the stalk is a stem bearing two megasporophylls (collars
RMRDWB32–. British plants; their biology and ecology. Botany; Botany; Plant ecology. LONGEVITY OF PLANTS 111 stem or root. In the potato (Fig. 30) the tubers are the swollen tips of underground stems, and the " eyes " upon them are the buds. In the dahlia some of the roots which grow frpm the base of the stem become tuberous. In the lesser celandine and some orchids, buds at the base of the stem develop an adventitious root which becomes large and tuberous. The fleshy tuberous roots of biennials are generally complex structures. The part from which the buds arise is stem. In the carrot and tu
RMRH2EK7–. British edible fungi : how to distinguish and how to cook them. Mushrooms, Edible -- Great Britain; Fungi, Edible -- Great Britain. EXPLANATORY. 21 under examination has a ring or not. The stem is sometimes sohd throughout, and sometimes hollow in the centre ; and in a few cases is so short as to be scarcely visible. There is sometimes a loose, or fixed, volva, or sheath, at the base of the stem, but it is only present in one or two species which are edible, and is not shown in the woodcut. In passing,. it may be remarked that, although the greater number of fleshy fungi have the radiating p
RMREKJRW–. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. 372 FLOWERING PLANTS is thick and leathery, or sometimes pulp}', when the fruit is a drupe (fig. 184). A drupe-like fruit is also formed by the fleshy development of the persistent base of the receptacle. In these latter cases the fruit is distributed by the agency of birds; the dry fruits which are very light and sometimes bear hairs, resembling a pappus, are carried by the A^dnd. Endosperm is generally scanty or absent, and the embrj^o is large vdih thick convex cotyledons and upwardly pointing radicle (fig. 184, B). The family contains 40 ge
RMRD7J8X–. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. dull grayish browfi above, with two or four small reddish tubercles on. each segment of the body, all encircled by a slight ring of black at their base. On the upper part of the ninth segment there is a istout, fleshy horn, about one-twelfth of an inch long, pointed and similar in color to the body, but with 12. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectl
RMRDTJ85–. Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology. Botany. 446 ILLUSTRATIONS OP THE NATURAL ORDERS. buoyant, sometimes evanescent or wanting, or -when produced in the air entire and somewhat fleshy, clustered at the base of the scape. Flowers showy, very irregular. Calyx of two sepals, or unequally five-parted. Corolla bilabiate, personate ; the very short tube spurred. Stamens two, inserted on the upper hp of the co- rolla: anthers confluently one-celled. Ovary free, one-celled with a free central placenta ! bearing numerous ovules. Seeds destitute of albumen. Embry
RMRH29M4–. British pomology; or, The history, description, classification, and synonymes, of the fruits and fruit trees of Great Britain ... Apples. 30 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. large spots of rough russet; the base is covered with a coating of russet, strewed with silvery scales. Eye, large and open, set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, half an inch long, obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy prominence. Flesh, firm, crisp, brisk, juicy, and pleasantly acid, resembling the Winter Greening in flavor. It is an excellent culinary apple, in use from November to February ; but as it has nothing to
RMRDXPXD–. Plant life, considered with special references to form and function. Plant physiology. parts of the bud are often distorted by the enlargement of the tissues to contain the food. The fleshy buds which readily separate from the axils of the leaves of some garden lilies (fig. 294), and those which replace tlie floers in some cultivated onions, are well known. (Compare also fig. 106.) 365. {h) Hibernacula.—Some- what similar but more highly de- FiG. 296,--.4 plant of stonecrop {Scdu-ni dasyphylluvi). Offsets are produced near the base nn short branches o, o ; at the tip of longer branches, o'
RMRPEKD8–. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 2J1 first feed upon the parenchj'ma or soft fleshy parts of the leaves, but afterwards devour in- differently, not only any portion of the leaves, but also the blossom-bud and blossom, togetlier with the calyx leaves at the base of the boll, tints causing the lobes wliich hold tlie cotton to fall entirely back and allow the cotton to fall at the slightest touch. AV'hile young these worms readily let tliemselves down by a web when disturbed, but when older tliey make less use of tliis web, and jerk themselves away to a con- sid
RMRDWMR8–. Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology. Botany. EOOTSTOCKS AND TUBKRS. 107 nearly in contact (Fig. 167). In the very short and slow-growing rootstock of Trillium (Fig. 169), the base of the leaf-bearing and flowering stem of the season surrounds and coYers the terminal bud. In our common Dentaria or Toothwort, and in Ilydrophyllum, the base of this annual stalk or of the leafstalks partakes in the thicken- ing, and persists as a part of the rhizoma, in the form of fleshy scales or tooth-shaped processes. In other scaly rootstocks, these persist- ent bases
RMRH2YGB–. British pomology; or, The history, description, classification, and synonymes, of the fruits and fruit trees of Great Britain ... 80 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. large spots of rough russet; the base is covered with a coating of russet, strewed with silvery scales. Eye, large and open, set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, half an inch long, obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy prominence. Flesh, firm, crisp, brisk, juicy, and pleasantly acid, resembling the Winter Greening in flavor. It is an excellent culinary apple, in use from November to February ; but as it has nothing to recommen
RMRE0R7F–. The Eusporangiatae; the comparative morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and Marattiaceae. Ophioglossaceae; Marattiaceae. THE ADULT SPOROPHYTE 101 the texture of the leaf is soft and fleshy, like that oi Ophioglossum, but in B. virgini- anum it is thin and membranaceous, like that of many true ferns. In B. lunaria (fig. 72, D) the venation comes nearer to that of Ophioglossum than is the case in the larger species. The fan-shaped leaflets have no midrib and the veins branch dichotomously from the base of leaf, radiating from this point in the manner de- scribed as "cyclopterid." In th
RMRHBRFF–. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Floriculture. ON PLANT PROPAGATION. 949 The term "tuber" is widely applied to several fleshy tuber like roots, such as Dahlias, &c., but this is incorrect, for if those roots were cut into pieces, they would not give a new plant unless a shoot of the crown were attached to them. On proper tubers the eyes, or buds, are found all round them. Stolons, or Runners, are a kind of branches, arising mostly from the base of the stock plant, remaining, in most cases, on the ground or soil and rooting at their tips, the tips fi
RMRJDCAN–. Celery culture; a practical treatise on the principles involved in the production of celery for home use and for market, including the selection of soil, production of plants, cultivation, control of insects and diseases, marketing and uses. Celery. no CELERY CULTURE lated. Two horses are required to draw the cutting machine m order to straddle the row. The depth to set the cutting- blade must be determined by the sound it makes in passing through the roots of the celery, the idea being to sever the roots just at the base of the thick, fleshy root. The method of using the digging machine is
RMRDJ3N3–. Our northern shrubs and how to identify them : a handbook for the nature-lover . Shrubs. BIRCH FAMILY. scales ; the outer scales broad and edged with hair, the inner lan- ceolate hairy and fleshy. Ovary incompletely two-celled, adnate to the calyx ; style short, stigmas two, threadlike. These inner scales increase in size with the nut and become the husk, or in- volucre. Fruit.—Nut, ovoid, or oblong, about half an inch high, slightly flattened ; pale brown, roughish at base where it adheres to the involucre. Involucre compressed, composed of two nearly distinct, downy, leafdike bractlets, fr
RMRDJ4R3–. Practical taxidermy, and home decoration; together with general information for sportsmen. Taxidermy. MOUNTING BIRDS WITH CLOSED WINGS. 105 Stick small, pointed passing a thread through the nostrils and base of the under mandible, and tie in position. To wire the tail is one of the most delicate tasks for the tyro, and should be done as follows : Pass a long, smoothly-pointed' piece of small wire through each tail feather at the flat part of the quill near the body, and spread the tail in accordance with the position of the bird. A large wire should be run through the fleshy part of the tail
RMRJ017P–. Supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry's voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-20 [microform] : containing an account of the subjects of natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ( n ZOOLOGY. CCXXXV red colour; antennae four-articuluto, the .second and third members very small, and the terminal setaceous, flexible by annular articulations; the last joint of the superior pair in thick and fleshy at the base ; body of seven segments, broader and less compressed than is usual in its congeners ; caudal segments four exclusive of the tail itself, mor
RMRDJ337–. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. THE PEAR. 621 red in the sun, and dotted with numerous gray dots. Stalk about an inch long, curved, rather obliquely inserted, without. Louise Sonne of Jersey. depression, or with a fleshy, enlarged base. Calyx open, in a shallow, uneven basin. Flesh greenish white, very juicy and melting, with a rich and excellent flavour. Septemb
RMRD54T6–. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. 1148 TONGUE. mouth, it is seen to be a whitish, fleshy, ru- ratus and muscles, and from the description of the two deduce the most probable explanation of the movements. When a portion of the integument and lower jaw on one side is removed, so as to expose the tongue when retracted within the gous mass, about an inch and a half long, fill- ing the buccal cavity, so as to depress the floor of the mouth and throat, in shape some- thing of a cone with the base in front: the posterior half, or smaller part, is seen to be thr
RMRD90DT–. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 295 longs to the family Ceddomyia, and is known to entomologists as Lasioptera vitis of Osten Sacken. The larv8e are liable to be attacked by a parasite, and also Fig. 306.. by a species of Thrip, which invade the cells and destroy the inmates. No. 169.—The Grape-vine Apple-gall. Vitis pomum Walsh & Riley. This is a globular, fleshy, greenish gall, about nine-tenths of an inch in diameter, which is attached by a rough base,. Please note that these images are extracted from
RMRHDFM7–. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. MARATTIA. 439 a fleshy nature, and deciduously scaly. The lower leaflets are the largest, and the ultimate divisions or segments, which are Jin. to fin. long, Jin. broad, of a soft, papery texture, oblong in shape, blunt or pointed, with a wedge-shaped base, sometimes smooth, but usually finely toothed on their margins (Fi
RMRR06RR–. Agriculture of New York : comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks ... together with a condensed view of the climate and the agricultural productions of the state. Agriculture; Soils; Fruit-culture. OF SUMMER PEARS. 133 64. SIEULLE. Fig. 15. Fruit of the medium size, roundish ; body prolonged to the base; sides tapering, with a regular convexity ; base indent- ed, bearing a stout stem, fleshy at its insertion. Color pale yellow, tinged with red on the cheek, sometimes the cheek is ornamented with a brilliant orange. Galyx small, placed
RMRDF861–. Our ferns in their haunts; a guide to all the native species. Ferns. 56 THE MOONWORT AND ITS ALLIES.. times pinnate. The plant often shows a remarkable tendency to double the fertile spike, and specimens with three complete fertile panicles, each on a separate stalk, are not rare. The rootstock, as in all the Botrychiums, is short and sends out numerous fleshy roots. The base of the living stipe com- pletely encloses the buds for succeeding years. Frequently the buds for four years to come may be discerned. The rootstock is reported / COMMON GRAPE FERN. Botrvchium oblhuum to occasionally bea
RMRE7TPH–. Corals and coral islands. Coral reefs and islands; Corals. ACTINIA AND OTHER ACTINOID POLYPS. 27 exterior skin, reticularly corrugated, occasionally becomes a surface of suction-warts, as in many Sagartia3. The internal structure of the Actinia is radiate like the ex- ternal, and more profoundly and constantly so. The mouth, a fleshy toothless opening in the disk, opens directly into a stomach, which descends usually about a third of the way to the base of the body; its sides are closed together unless it be in use. The general cavity of the body around and be- low the stomach is divided rad
RMRDJTJ0–. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 142 FUMARIACEAE. Vol. H. capsule, or 1-seeded and indehiscent. Seeds with a minute embrjo in fleshy endosperm. Five genera and about 170 species, natives of the north temperate zone and southern Africa. Each of the 2 outer petals spurred at the base. Corolla deeply cordate at base; petals slightly coherent. i. Bicuciilla. Corolla rounded or slightly cordate ; p
RMREF3WC–. A compend of human physiology; especially adapted for the use of medical students. Physiology. THE SENSE OF HEARING. 239 process of the incus, and internally, by its oval base, with the edges of the foramen ovale. The tensor tympani muscle consists of a fleshy, tapering portion, % of an inch in length, which terminates in a slender tendon ; it arises from the cartilaginous portion of the Eustachian tube and the adjacent surface of the sphenoid bone. From this origin the muscle passes nearly horizontally. Fig. 34.—Tympanum and Auditory Ossicles (Left) Magnified. A.G. External meatus. M. Membr
RMRDHPKB–. Outlines of plant life : with special reference to form and function . Botany. 102 OUTLINES OF PLANT LIFE. cs^ ,?a winged, as in the orange. It may be entirely wanting, in which case the blade arises directly from the base, as in most grasses (fig. 88). 127. 3. The leaf blade.—To this part of the leaf the word " leaf " itself is fre- quently applied. In gen- eral, the leaf blade is so broadly winged as to be thin and flat; but all gradations exist between such forms and those that are much folded or crum- pled, thick and fleshy, or even cylindrical. If a thin blade be held. I'iG. g
RMRD9MNP–. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. CACTACEAM {CACTUS FAMILY) 289 few spines or a single strong one, sometimes none. Flowers yellow, sometimes with a reddish center, nearly three inches broad, the many petals slightly united at base, the stamens very numerous, the style with two- to seven-parted stigma; ovary inferior or below the flower and one-celled. Fruit a thick club-shape, nearly two inches long, not spiny, with a fleshy purplish
RMRDT9TC–. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). NUPHAR THE BULB BOOK NYMPHjEA NUPHAR (from naufar, the Arabic for Water Lily). Nat. Ord. Nymphae- aceae. — A small genus of aquatic plants closely related to the Water Lilies proper (Nymphwa), having thick fleshy root - stocks, roundish heart-shaped leaves deeply lobed at the base, and large yellow flovfers with numerous p
RMRGD23K–. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. NOTES ON LOXOPHORA DAMMERSI Van Duzee By John A. Comstock This interesting little Fulgorid was described by Mr. Van Duzee in the Pan Pacific Entomologist, Vol. 10, p. 191, 1934, from material collected by Commander C. JM. Dammers. The species is quite common on Agave deserti Engelm., but it is difficult to capture on account of its agile movements, and the fact that it cjuickly secretes itself at the base of the fleshy agave leaf, where, on account of the rows of "teeth" along the ed
RMRE0P95–. Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical. Botany, Economic; Botany. 760 FUNGI such short segments that sections of it resemble a parenchymatous tissue of the higher plants. After being kept through winter and moistened, the ergot germinates and sends up several fleshy-pink stalks at the end of which are round heads or stromata {s, Fig. 257). Imbedded within the substance of the latter are a large number of flask-shaped perithecia (n, Fig. 257), the narrow ends of which have a small opening outwards. From the base of the interior of the perithecia long club-shaped asci arise in which ar
RMRPEJAG–. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 267 joint clubbed, second conical, tip with "sensi- tive aciculi." Both joints equally long. Mentum fleshy, narrow at base, broadening toward the rounded tip. Apparently no Ugiila. Head small, yellowish with a small aspersion of black pigment on occiput. The hody-integument exhibits under the micro- scope a beautifully arranged black pigmentation with fine canals between them. Legs, the mid- dle and posterior pairs slightly longer than the anterior. The coxal supports are prominent, coxse short, trochanter very short
RMRE9PPW–. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. Plants; Plants -- Pennsylvania. Fig. 8. Transverse section ovary Pleuricospora fimbriolata X 25. 1. Near base. 2. At middle. In Monotropa hypopitys the ovary is ovoid, 10-8-lobed. As in the Pyrolaceae it is 5-4-celled at the base and one-celled above with 5-4 bilobed parietal placentae. At the base of the ovary there are 10-8 downward directed spur-like processes, which extend between the stamens and secrete nectar into the saccate bases of the petals. The style is thick and fleshy, longer than the ovary, it and t
RMRHE17M–. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. 22. Fig. 7. Hemipenis of C. oweni, sulcal view. rated. At the base of each sulcal rotula is a large fleshy papilla; medially and somewhat distally of these papillae another pair of isolated papillae is present. Chamaeleo montium Buchholz, 1874 (Fig. 8) ZFMK 8844, 9067, 9069, 15287 and 15288 Buea, Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon Hemipenes stoutly built and truncated, pedicel one third of hemipenislength. The trun- cus is coarsely calyculate, the well developed sulcal lips and sulcus spermaticus without ornamentation. Apex with two pairs of small denticulated r
RMRPEHF4–. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 267 joint clubbed, second conical, tip with "sensi- tive aciculi." Both joints equally long. A/enlum fleshy, narrow at base, broadening toward the rounded tip. Apparently no ligula. Head small, yellowish with a small aspersion of black pigment on occiput. The hody-inttgiiment exhibits under the micror scope a beautifully arranged black pigmentation with fine canals between them. I-fgs, the mid- dle and posterior pairs slightly longer than the anterior. The coxal supports are prominent, coxje short, trochanter very sh
RMRH2PBE–. British trees. Trees. THE YEW. 7^5. THE FRUIT. at their base, and which have the appearance of being dead. The whole flower is not more than a quarter of an inch in length. The Female Flowers. About the end of August the young fruit resembles a blunt acorn or a dark dull-green colour and very hard. The rounded cup in which it is set is paler green and of a consistency that suggests india-rubber ; a short stalk attaches it to the twig. The cup develops into a fleshy semi-opaque mass of a beautiful rose-red, which gradually envelopes the nut and enfolds it so completely that only the tip is vi
RMRE86R6–. Contributions to Canadian biology. Marine biology; Natural history. Family CORY^IOEPHID^. Trophosome. Zooids solitary, large; hydranths with a proximal and a distal set of filiform tentacles. Gonosome. Gonophores producing free medusae with four radial canals and three of the four tentacles aborted or very much reduced. Genus Corymorpha. Trophosome. Pedicel with perisarc represented by a thin pellicle; tubtdar, fleshy processes growing from the pedicel near the base; hydranth abruptly distinct from the pedicel; proximal tentacles longer than distal; distal set in several continguous rows. Go
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