RFT5NNM0–Stachys officinalis is a perennial grassland herb. Its leaves are stalked on upright stems, narrowly oval, with a heart-shaped base. Its upper lip fla
RMPG1AKW–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. EBONY FAMILY EBENACEiE Ventenat ]HE Ebony Family is composed of some 275 species of trees and shrubs, grouped into 6 or 7 genera; they are widely distributed in tropical regions, a few only occurring in the temperate zones. Their wood is very hard, often susceptible of a high polish; the bark is astringent. The alternate simple entire-margined leaves are stalked but without stipules; the flowers are mostly dioecious, born
RFT5NH8J–The picture showing Bitter Cress. Its stalk are alternate, basal leaves long stalked, flowers are small with four petals, vintage line drawing or engr
RMRDCNF6–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 594 Mahogany oughly naturalized in the southern States from South Carolina to Texas, and it withstands the winter as far north as Chesapeake bay and Little Rock, Arkansas. It attains a height of 15 to 20 meters, with a trunk sometimes 2 meters thick, and flowers in the spring in the southern States. The bark is furrowed, the twigs smooth. The deciduous leaves are stalked and twice compound, the numerous leaflets ovate to
RMPG1BNY–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 594 Mahogany oughly naturalized in the southern States from South Carolina to Texas, and it withstands the winter as far north as Chesapeake bay and Little Rock, Arkansas. It attains a height of 15 to 20 meters, with a trunk sometimes 2 meters thick, and flowers in the spring in the southern States. The bark is furrowed, the twigs smooth. The deciduous leaves are stalked and twice compound, the numerous leaflets ovate to
RFT5X4A2–It is often known as the bluebell leaves are long-stalked, rounded to heart-shaped, usually slightly toothed, with prominent hydathodes. As illustrate
RMRDTE60–. 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). CYCLAMEN THE BULB BOOK CYCLAMEN and beautiful dwarf scapigerous herbs with large roundish, depressed, fleshy, corm-like tubers (Fig. 109). Leaves long - stalked, ovate heart- shaped or kidney-shaped, entire or sinuate-dentate. Scapes slender, one- flowered. Flowers nodding, white, rose, or purple, with the scape often spir
RMPG1B93–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Narrow Fruited Maple 647. coarsely toothed. The red, scarlet or rarely yellow flowers appear in dense clus- ters before the leaves at the axils of leaves of the preceding season, some of the clusters composed of staminate and some of pistillate flowers, either on the same or on different trees; the flowers are stalked, and the stalks of the pistillate ones greatly elongate as the fruit matures; the sepals are oblong, blun
RFT5Y4E3–A picture shows Alpinia Mutica Plant. Leaves are small, long, plain-edges and short stalked. Flower has white colored outer segment and bright yellow
RMRDHN05–. Elementary botany . Botany. POLYPETAL^—PAPAVERACE^^ 123 PAPAVERACEiE (Poppy Family) Herbs with milky juice. Leaves exstipulate. Flowers usually showy, regular, hypogynous. Sepals, two (three), polysepalous. Petals, 2 + 2, polypetalous. Stamens numerous. Carpels, from 2 to 00, syncarpous: ovary one-chambered, with many ovules on parietal placenta. Fruit dehiscent. Seeds endospermic. Type I : FIELD-POPPY (Papaver rhoeas).* Vegetative characters.—Annual herbaceous plant, with milky juice (latex) and bristly hairs. Leaves alternate, stalked,. Fig. 153.—Vertical section of flower of Poppy. withou
RFT60MAC–A branch of a small shrub or tree with crowded, simple, short-stalked or sessile leaves, flowers in close terminal clusters and a corolla with a slend
RFT5YNMW–This is a Agave Angustissima with narrow leaves. Its flowers are stalked, vintage line drawing or engraving illustration.
RFT5YME2–Campanula Waldsteiniana is a flowering plant. It has stalked and very small basal leaves. Its flowers are saucer-shaped with blue color, vintage line
RMPG1E8P–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Silver Thatch Palm ^35 yond the middle into numerous narrowly lanceolate acuminate segments; they are yellow-green and shining on the upper side, silvery-white beneath, at least when young; their stalks are slender and about as long as the blades, expanded below into fibrous sheaths which remain attached to the trunk after the leaves have fallen away; the large panicles of flowers are short-stalked and borne among the lea
RM2AGEPK7–. Outlines of zoology. nsidethe glassy case of the free-swimmingTunicate Pyrosoma, Division 3. Hoplocarida, with a carapacethat leaves at least four of the thoracicsegments free, with stalked eyes, with theeggs carried in a chamber formed by themaxilliped,es, with an elongated heart,and with a complicated metamorphosis. . Order:—Stomatopods, e.g. Squilla, with resTra^r^uTte? ^^ ™ *^ second maxiUipedes forming very largerespira ory p a e . raptorial organs. Division 4. Eucarida, with a cephalo - thoracic shield uniting thehead and thorax segments ; with stalked eyes ; with a saccular heart;wit
RFT60330–Tabebuia Leucoxyla is flowering plant. Leaves are simple, with stalked or sessile Lepidote scales. The flower is yellow, pink in color, vintage line d
RMPG2G0J–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 60 -IRBOIiETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Spec. Char., Sfc. Stem suffruticose, branched. Branches spreading, hoary tomentose. Leaves stalked, oblong linear, with the margins scarcely reyo- hite; under surface tomentose, upper surface glaucescent, but at length becoming smooth. Stipules a
RMRDYDM6–. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 308 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS EMBRYOPHYTA ZOIDIOGAMA BRYOPHYTA Seldom thalloid, generally with stem and leaves with well marked alteration of generations. They contain antheridia and archegonia similar to those of the ferns. The antheridia are stalked, ellipsoidal, spherical, or club-shaped; the sperm cells are biciliated, the archegonia flask-shaped, the ventral portion with a large center cell, the lower portion divided into an eg
RFT603AY–A picture shows Alpinia Nutans and the Individual Flower Plant. Leaves are small, long, plain-edges and short stalked, narrow and taper toward the bas
RMPG1B8W–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. coarsely toothed. The red, scarlet or rarely yellow flowers appear in dense clus- ters before the leaves at the axils of leaves of the preceding season, some of the clusters composed of staminate and some of pistillate flowers, either on the same or on different trees; the flowers are stalked, and the stalks of the pistillate ones greatly elongate as the fruit matures; the sepals are oblong, blunt, wavy-margined or nearly
RMRDFG56–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 60 -IRBOIiETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Spec. Char., Sfc. Stem suffruticose, branched. Branches spreading, hoary tomentose. Leaves stalked, oblong linear, with the margins scarcely reyo- hite; under surface tomentose, upper surface glaucescent, but at length becoming smooth. Stipules a
RMPG1B81–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 650 The Maples yellow flowers appear with the leaves, or a few days before them, in clusters at and near the ends of twigs of the preceding season; they are long-stalked and drooping, the tree being conspicuous when in bloom; the staminate and pistillate flowers are in separate clusters; the pedicels and 5-lobed calyx are provided with long hairs; there are no petals; the staminate flowers have about 7 stamens twice as lo
RMRDCN5C–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Narrow Fruited Maple 647. coarsely toothed. The red, scarlet or rarely yellow flowers appear in dense clus- ters before the leaves at the axils of leaves of the preceding season, some of the clusters composed of staminate and some of pistillate flowers, either on the same or on different trees; the flowers are stalked, and the stalks of the pistillate ones greatly elongate as the fruit matures; the sepals are oblong, blun
RMPG29E8–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXVni. SALICACE^: 5ALIX. 769 a S. a. 4 vnduldta. S. a. 5 undulata JBoirer in Eng. Bot. t. 2733., 4 figures of the female, and description; S. spathulata Willd., var. undulata of Professor Mertens. (Borrer.) — Kemarkable for its lanceolate or almost linear leaves, and distinctly stalked s
RMRDCN57–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. coarsely toothed. The red, scarlet or rarely yellow flowers appear in dense clus- ters before the leaves at the axils of leaves of the preceding season, some of the clusters composed of staminate and some of pistillate flowers, either on the same or on different trees; the flowers are stalked, and the stalks of the pistillate ones greatly elongate as the fruit matures; the sepals are oblong, blunt, wavy-margined or nearly
RMPG0CAF–. The structure and development of mosses and ferns (Archegoniatae). Plant morphology; Mosses; Ferns. 3S8 MOSSES AND FERNS CHAP. any distinct lamina. The fertile leaves are pinnately divided. In other species, e. g., S. dichotoma, the leaves are dichoto- mously divided, but the fertile leaf-segments are pinnate, as they are in 5". pusilla (Diels (i)). In Aneimia (Fig. 225) the two lower pinnae of the sporo- phyll are fertile, and in most species become very long-stalked and more divided than the sterile pinnae. The leaves arise from the dorsal side of the rhizome and in Lygodium, Prantl (
RMRPXGDR–. Text-book of botany, morphological and physiological. Botany. 57° PHANEROGAMS. bottom of the flowers, as in Nicoiiana and Labiatae. Frequently, however, special hollow receptacles are constructed for this purpose, as is especially the case with the bag-like appendages of the perianth-leaves (Fig. 396), usually called Spurs. In Viola only one of the perianth-leaves forms a hollow spur, into which the ap- pendages of two stamens are prolonged and secrete the nectar. The cup-shaped stalked petals of Helleborus and the slipper-shaped petals of Nigella secrete at the bottom of their cavity the ne
RMPG1DKM–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Iron wood 243 The leaves are alternate, ovate, obovate, or oblong-lanceolate, toothed, stalked and stipulate, the stipules falhng away soon after they unfold. The very small, imperfect staminate and pistillate flowers are borne in separate catkins on the same tree (monoecious), and open with or before the leaves. The staminate ones are in dense narrow drooping catkins, hke those of the Hornbeams, consisting only of severa
RMRDRA64–. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 503 ORCHID-GROWERS MANUAL. M. ROSEA, Lindl.—Although described long since it was not until 1880 that this species was introduced into cultivation. It is a dwarf-growing plant, producing its flowers in great profusion, and for cultivators offers altogether a new and distinct type. The plant is of tufted habit like the rest; its leaves are elliptic acute and long-stalked, and its scapes are longer than the leaves, bringing the flowers well up into view; they
RMPG1CYH–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 360 The Tremas (Wallich) Blume, on Cuba, and there are several other tropical American species. The type is Trema cannabina Loureiro, of Cochin-China. The leaves are 3-nerved, short-stalked, equal-sided, or nearly so; their stipules fall away early. The very small green monoecious or polygamous flowers are borne in dense axillary cymes; the calyx is 4-parted or 5-parted, the divisions of the staminate calyx being valvate
RMRDJC8X–. 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. ONAGRACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Ludwigiantha brevipes Long, n. sp. Short-stalked Ludwigiantha. Fig. 3015. Similar to the preceding species, creeping, glabrous. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, acutish at the apex, narrowed to the sessile or nearly sessile base; flowers about i' broad, on slender pedun- cles shorter than the leaves; calyx-lobes lanceolate to ovate- lanceolat
RMPG430J–. Diseases of plants induced by cryptogamic parasites : introduction to the study of pathogenic Fungi, slime-Fungi, bacteria, & Algae . Plant diseases; Parasitic plants; Fungi. EFFECT OF PARASITIC FUNGI ON THE FORM OF HOST-PLANT. 23 ranunculoides under the influence of Aecidium punctahim. In the simpler cases the floral leaves were narrow, elongated, and greenish, stamens were formed but not carpels; in more pro- nounced cases, the petals were only represented as small, simple,. Fig. 5.—Cherry tree in blossom, with three "witches' brooms" in foliage, (v. Tubeuf phot.) stalked, gr
RMRDK0W4–. 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. ONAGRACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Ludwigiantha brevipes Long, n. sp. Short-stalked Ludwigiantha. Fig. 3015. Similar to the preceding species, creeping, glabrous. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, acutish at the apex, narrowed to the sessile or nearly sessile base; flowers about i' broad, on slender pedun- cles shorter than the leaves; calyx-lobes lanceolate to ovate- lanceolat
RMPG1AHE–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Texas Ash 807 ovate to oblong or ovate-orbicular, 5 to 8 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, long-stalked, strongly veined, toothed from the apex nearly to the base, and vary from abruptly pointed at the tip and wedge-shaped at the base to rounded or blunt at both ends; the upper surface is bright green and smooth, the under side paler and when young often hairy. The dioecious flowers appear with or just before the leaves of the
RMRDRA3T–. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 510 ORCHID-GROWERS MANUAL. duced it again in 1886. " It has very broad elliptical bulbs, which finally are as much wrinkled, or nearly so, as in an old plant of Onddium ampliatum; leaves cuneate-ligulate, blunt, acute; peduncle rather short; bract equalling, or shorter than the stalked ovary; sepals and petals light oohre-colouied, triangular ligulate, tapering in an acuminate manner, and having a short bristle at the top ; petals smaller; side lacinia
RMPG14R5–. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. Fig. 326. A. Regnellidium diphyllum Lind. Single leaf and stalked sporo- carp. (I nat. size. After Lindman.) B. Cuticle of Sagenopteris rhoifolia. (After Schenk.) of Sagenopteris with members of this family. In Regnellidium the leaves differ from those of Marsilia in bearing two instead of four leaflets, and in the former the veins are repeatedly forked, and do not anastomose as in Marsilia. In the possession of only two leaflets Regnellidium agrees with some forms of Sagenopteris (fig. 328). 1 Solms-Laubaoh (91) A. p. 182. 2
RMRDYF9G–. A textbook of botany for colleges and universities ... Botany. PTERIDOPHYTES 163. Figs. 382-385. — Aspidium: 382, general habit, showing leaves and circinate verna- tion, dorsiventral (subterranean) stem, and secondary roots; 383, a single pinnule, showing dichotomous veins and sori with shieldlike indusia; 384, section through a sorus, showing the indusium and long-stalked sporangia; 385, a single sporangium, showing the incomplete vertical annulus and the transverse dehiscence. — After WOSSIDLO.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
RMPG0FRM–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Black Haw 855 roughish scales, are long and taper-pointed; those producing flowers are abruptly thickened at the base, 5 to 6 mm. in diameter, and 2 cm. long. The shining bright green leaves are quite smooth on both sides, 5 to 10 cm. long, ovate, elliptic, or nearly or- bicular, taper-pointed, toothed by sharp, thick teeth, gradually or ab- ruptly narrowed or rounded at the base, and slender stalked. The flowers are born
RMRDJW1K–. 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. 26. Ranunculus septentrionalis Poir. Swamp or Marsh Buttercup. Fig. 1920. Ranunculus septentrionalis Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 6: 125. 1804. Roots simply fibrous; plant branching, i°-3° high, glabrous, or pubescent, the later branches procum- bent and sometimes rooting at the nodes. Leaves large, petioled, 3-divided; divisions mostly stalked, usually cuneate at the
RMPG1AJB–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Tourney's Ash 803 It has a gray, fissured bark, 4 cm. thick or less, and round twigs, which are smooth from the first, but the bud-scales are finely hairy. The leaves are either quite smooth or a little rusty-hairy along the veins on the under side; they have either 3 or 5 stalked, rather thick leaflets, which are lanceolate to oblong, or the end one obovate, pointed, wedge-shaped at the base, the upper surface dark green
RMRDX25N–. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. Fig. 331. — Pomegranate, found in nearly all private grounds. The beauty of the plant is due to the large clusters of flowers with their wavy (crinkled or fringed) stalked petals, in summer ; it blooms continuously for two or three months. The usual color of the flowers is bright pink, but there are varieties ranging from white to purple. The fruit is a 3- to 6-ceIled capsule with winged seeds. The rather small (2 inches) leaves are generally opposite; near the tips of the branches they become alternate, oblong, with entire
RMPG0H4Y–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Western Larch 51 are globose, dark red, and shining. The leaves are pale green, filiform, triangu- lar, rounded above, keeled below, i to 2.5 cm. long, numerous in each cluster, terminating branchlets about 4 mm. long; they fall off in the autumn. The staminate flowers are sessile, subglobose, and light yellow; the pistillate flowers are borne on the lateral branchlets of the previous year, are short-stalked, oblong, and
RMRDJW1Y–. 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. 26. Ranunculus septentrionalis Poir. Swamp or Marsh Buttercup. Fig. 1920. Ranunculus septentrionalis Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 6: 125. 1804. Roots simply fibrous; plant branching, i°-3° high, glabrous, or pubescent, the later branches procum- bent and sometimes rooting at the nodes. Leaves large, petioled, 3-divided; divisions mostly stalked, usually cuneate at the
RMPG15K6–. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XX] MARATTIALES 317 Angiopteris. This genus occurs in Polynesia, tropical Asia, and Mada- gascar ; it is characterised by a short and thick fleshy stem bearing large bipinnate leaves which occasionally show a forking of the rachis^, a feature reminiscent of some Palaeozoic fern-like fronds. One of the large plants of Angiopteris evecta in the Royal Gardens, Kew, bears leaves 12 feet in length with a stalk 6 inches in diameter at the base. The sessile or shortly stalked and rather leathery linear or broadly lanceolate pinnules
RMRDEYN1–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXVni. SALICACE^: 5ALIX. 769 a S. a. 4 vnduldta. S. a. 5 undulata JBoirer in Eng. Bot. t. 2733., 4 figures of the female, and description; S. spathulata Willd., var. undulata of Professor Mertens. (Borrer.) — Kemarkable for its lanceolate or almost linear leaves, and distinctly stalked s
RMPG1R94–. Morphology of gymnosperms. Gymnosperms; Plant morphology. 196 MORPHOLOGY OF GYMNOSPERMS material, and especially taking into account numerous abnormal cases, came to the conclusion that the stalk is a shoot usually bearing two rudimentary carpels (megasporophylls) which are represented. Fig. 223.—Ginkgo biloba: part of a long branch bearing dwarf branches with ovulate strobih.—After Coulter (54). by the two collars. The abnormal cases may be summed up as foUov/s: ovules on more or less modified foliage leaves; intergrades from nor- mal collars to blades bearing ovules; distinctly stalked ovu
RMRDBGEX–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 360 The Tremas (Wallich) Blume, on Cuba, and there are several other tropical American species. The type is Trema cannabina Loureiro, of Cochin-China. The leaves are 3-nerved, short-stalked, equal-sided, or nearly so; their stipules fall away early. The very small green monoecious or polygamous flowers are borne in dense axillary cymes; the calyx is 4-parted or 5-parted, the divisions of the staminate calyx being valvate
RMPG1B5P–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Red Buckeye 66i hairy, becoming smooth and gray, the buds smooth, not sticky, blunt, the terminal ones 6 mm. long or more. The leaves are usually composed of five leaflets; the leaf-stalk is stout, finely hairy, 7 to 15 cm. long; the leaflets are usually short- stalked, oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate, pointed, 6 to 15 cm. long, finely and somewhat irregularly toothed, and when mature are bright green and shining on the
RMRE1KXE–. A manual of botany. Botany. 158 MANUAL OF BOTANY the stem of Lycopodium can be divided into two areas, composed of thiok-walled woody cells with small intercellular spaces. The cells of the inner area have very thick walls. The cortex is crossed by bundles passing out from the stele to the leaves. The sporangia in Lycopodium and Phylloglossum are simple and stalked. They arise on the leaves near their insertion Fig. 916. Fia. 917.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these il
RMPG1BCG–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Rhacoma 631 leaves, with very small stipules which fall away early. The rather small flowers are in stalked axillary cymes, and are either perfect or polygamous; the calyx is 4-lobed or 5-Iobed; there are 4 or 5 petals, as many stamens, and the ovary is from 3-celled to 5-celled, usually with 2 ovules in each cavity; the style is short and there are as many stigma-lobes as ovary- cavities. The fruit is a more or less fles
RMRDXMGN–. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. Fig. 586.—Nuphar lutea. according to the depth of water. The long-stalked spadix is .covered with numerous very small flowers of a yellowish colour. Stratiotes aloides (Water Soldier) (Fig. 587).—This is a mono- typic genus and an in- habitant of our ponds and slow-running waters. The plant—a rosette- like tuft of leaves—re- sembles a small-growing Aloe, and is usually entirely submerged, only floating when it is in flower, the tips of the leaves then rising above the surface of the water. It increases rapidly, and t
RMPG0AY7–. Our woodland trees . Trees; Trees. 22. THE WATFAEING TEBE. Viburnum lantana. Plate 4, Fia. 2. y.-OT<IGrHER than its relative—tlie Guelder Rose—reacting in our woodlands a height of fifteen feet in the small space of five or six years, Viburnum lantana has not, per- haps, quite the same claim to be regarded for its beauty of blossom, which is borne in a crowded head upon a stalked cyme. The leaves are thick, soft, and somewhat velvety to the touch, and on both sides, but very conspicuously on their under sides, are clothed with white mealy down, which gives a. Please note that these images
RMRE1M39–. A manual of botany. Botany. BEYOPHYTA—HEPATICiE 111 structure, often being composed of only one or two cells. They arise either from the margins of the leaves or from the axis near its apex. The antheridia are stalked somewhat globular bodies which are not sunk in the tissue as in Marohantia, but arise singly or in groups on the shoot near its apex, in the axils of the leaves. The archegonia are developed later, sometimes from the same shoot as the antheridia. They are sometimes solitary, some- times in groups, and are surrounded by a kind of involucre formed either by the cohesion together
RMPG0H2E–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Canadian Hemlock 65 The name is Japanese, Tsuga being the name for two of their most impor- tant timber trees. The astringent bark of all the species is extensively used in tanning. Cones ovoid to oval; leaves blunt or notched, flat. Eastern trees; cones stalked. Northern tree; cone-scales nearly round, appressed. i. T. canadensis. Southern tree; cone-scales oblong, longer than wide, spreading. 2. T. caroUniana. Western t
RMRDFBHK–. The structure and development of mosses and ferns (Archegoniatae). Plant morphology; Mosses; Ferns. 3S8 MOSSES AND FERNS CHAP. any distinct lamina. The fertile leaves are pinnately divided. In other species, e. g., S. dichotoma, the leaves are dichoto- mously divided, but the fertile leaf-segments are pinnate, as they are in 5". pusilla (Diels (i)). In Aneimia (Fig. 225) the two lower pinnae of the sporo- phyll are fertile, and in most species become very long-stalked and more divided than the sterile pinnae. The leaves arise from the dorsal side of the rhizome and in Lygodium, Prantl (
RMPG1B0F–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Button wood 7^9 leaf scars. The leaves are alternate, entire-margined, crowded at the ends of the branchlets, thick and leathery, obovate, wedge-shaped at the base, i to 3 dm. long, rounded, often abruptly tipped at the apex, short stalked, dark green and shin- ing above, paler beneath. The small flowers are perfect or polygamous, greenish white, in slender spikes 5 to 15 cm. long, the staminate flowers toward the top, th
RMRDJPB6–. 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. II. Trifolium stoloniferum Muhl. Running Buf- falo Clover. Fig. 2484. Trifolium stoloniferum Muhl. Cat. 70. 1813. Perennial, glabrous, branching, 6'-i2' long, forming run- ners at the base. Leaves, especially the lower, long-peti- oled ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, membranous, often l' long; leaflets all from the same point, short-stalked, ob- ovate or ob
RMPG0N5B–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 26 The Pines through CaHfomia to Lower CaHfomia, often forming pure forests and reaching a maximum height of 70 meters, with a trunk diameter of 1.8 m.; southward it is often reduced to a stragghng shrub. The leaves are 10 to 22 cm. long, stiffer and more elastic than those of the Bull pine, very pungently aromatic and persist for six to nine years. The cones are short-stalked, usually purpUsh, 12. 5 to 30 cm. long, their
RMRDPEGA–. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Verbenacccc— Verbena. 357 Didnthera Americana, Water Willow, is a pretty North American aquatic perennial 1 to 2 feet high with linear- lanceolate glabrous leaves and axillary long-stalked dense spikes of purplish bilabiate flowers. It is peculiar in having the anther-cells of the two stamens placed one below the other. Order LXXXIII.—VERBENACE^. Shrubs
RMPG1D25–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 346 The Elms and often doubly toothed, very rough and dark green on the upper surface, and hairy on the lower, small, 5 cm. long or less, with hairy stalks 2 to 4 mm. long; the stipules are prominent on the yoimg leaves, sometimes i cm. long, but fall away early. The flowers appear id the autunm, in small short-stalked clusters in the leaf-axils; the calyx is deeply cleft into narrow lobes, about as long as the hairy ovar
RMRDDWYH–. Diseases of plants induced by cryptogamic parasites : introduction to the study of pathogenic Fungi, slime-Fungi, bacteria, & Algae . Plant diseases; Parasitic plants; Fungi. EFFECT OF PARASITIC FUNGI ON THE FORM OF HOST-PLANT. 23 ranunculoides under the influence of Aecidium punctahim. In the simpler cases the floral leaves were narrow, elongated, and greenish, stamens were formed but not carpels; in more pro- nounced cases, the petals were only represented as small, simple,. Fig. 5.—Cherry tree in blossom, with three "witches' brooms" in foliage, (v. Tubeuf phot.) stalked, gr
RMPG1AGR–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Gregg's Ash 8ii 21. FRINGE-FLOWERED ASH — Frarinus dipetala Hooker and Arnott A Califomian shrub, not definitely known to form a tree, with spreading stems 4 meters long or less. It ranges from central California southward along the mountains to Lower Cali- fornia. The young twigs are somewhat 4-sided, and smooth. The leaves are smooth, or very minutely hairy when they first appear, and have from 3 to 9 long-stalked leafl
RMRDXP0A–. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. 116 FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS (See Fig. 100.) Reseda is the most important genus, and includes the fragrant garden mignonette {R. odorata). A yellow dye and paint is obtained from the yellow-weed or dyers'-weed of Europe, R. Luteola. ' Family Moringaceae. Moringa Fam- ily. Consists of a single genus, Mo- ringa, with 3 species, natives of south- ern Asia. They are trees with pinnate leaves and clusters of rather conspic^ uous flowers, the calyx and corolla each with five divisions; stamens 8 or 10; ovary simple, stalked, becoming in fr
RMPG1DNW–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 222 The Hickories leaf scars. The leaves are up to 4 dm. long, including the stout, brownish hairy leaf-stalk, consisting of 9 to 19 short-stalked, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate leaf- lets, 6 to 12 cm. long, or the lower ovate, broadest near the rounded base, long taper-pointed, and coarsely toothed on the margin, yellowish hairy when unfold- ing, becoming yellowish green and smooth, or hairy along the prominent, stout,
RMRDRD4R–. Notes on the life history of British flowering plants. Botany; Plant ecology. 372 BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS The scales which protect the bud of Castanea are connate stipules. This is indicated by the indentation at the apex (Fig. 269), and the bud at the base. QuERCUs (Oak) Monoecious. Male flowers in slender pendulous catkins, with 6-12 stamens; female flowers solitary or clustered. Pollen wind-borne. Accord- ing to Kerner the trees are protogynous. Q. Robur.—Two forms are often re- garded as distinct species—(l) Q. Rohlir, var. jyedunculata, which has the leaves sessile or shortly stalked,
RMPFYERH–. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. ALGiE 1J9 and often bearing air-bladders to assist in floating (Fig. 111). The most complex body is that of the gulfweed (Sargassum), in which there are slender branching stems. Fig. 110.—A sea-palm.—After Ru- Fig. 111.—Fragment of i^wcus, showing PBECHT. forked branching, reproductive tips, and air-bladders.—After Luerssen. bearing numerous leaves like ordinary foliage, and stalked air-bladders that resemble berries (Fig. 112). The gulf- weeds occur in warmer waters than do the other large forms, and are often torn from their anchorage an
RMRDBHBG–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Western Larch 51 are globose, dark red, and shining. The leaves are pale green, filiform, triangu- lar, rounded above, keeled below, i to 2.5 cm. long, numerous in each cluster, terminating branchlets about 4 mm. long; they fall off in the autumn. The staminate flowers are sessile, subglobose, and light yellow; the pistillate flowers are borne on the lateral branchlets of the previous year, are short-stalked, oblong, and
RMPG2HT0–. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. Fig. 99. — Chinese Flowering Chestnut. Fjg. 100. — Long-racemed Horse- chestnut. Common Jujube — Zizyphus sativa — is a shrub or small tree, often prickly, growing occasionally to the height of 30 feet. The leaves are so arranged along slender green stems as to look like compound pinnate ones but the flowers and fruit in their axils prove the leaves are simple. These leaves are from 1 to 3 inches long, dark glossy-green above, whitish below, oblique at base and finely notched. The fruit is short-stalked, dark red to black, i
RMRDWFCH–. Nature and development of plants. Botany. DEVELOPMENT OF PLANTS 299 leafy hepatics, the former organs appearing as stalked bodies in the axils of the leaves on short cone-like branches and the archegonia originate on the tips of short branches. The gameto- spore germinates very much as in Anthoceros (Fig. 203, 6). It does not, however, have as prolonged a growth, and at ma-. FiG. 203. The sporophyte of Sphagnum: 6, the young sporophyte sepa- rated from the archegonium with essentially the same differentiation of parts as noted in Anthoceros, Fig. 199. 5^, diagram of a later development of th
RMPG0G7X–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 498 The Plums and Cherries before or with the leaves in April or May, are 1.5 to 2.5 cm. across, in lateral, very scaly, short-stalked 2-to 5-flowered umbels, on smooth slender pedicels 2 to 4 cm. long; the calyx-tube is urn-shaped, smooth, its lobes rather broad, blunt, minutely glandular-toothed and reflexed; the petals are broadly obovate, notched at the apex. The fruit ripens in June and July, is nearly globular, 8 to
RMRDM8KP–. 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. 9. Sparganium multipedunculatum (Morong) Rydb. Many-stalked Bur-reed. Fig. 169. Sparganium simplex multipedunculata Morong, Bull. Torrey Club 15: 79. 1888. Sparganium multipedunculatum Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 598. 1905. Stem i°-i§° high or less, or floating, rather slen- der; leaves narrow, 2j"-s" wide or rarely less, slightly keeled, dilated and
RMPG2HT2–. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. Fig. 99. — Chinese Flowering Chestnut. Fjg. 100. — Long-racemed Horse- chestnut. Common Jujube — Zizyphus sativa — is a shrub or small tree, often prickly, growing occasionally to the height of 30 feet. The leaves are so arranged along slender green stems as to look like compound pinnate ones but the flowers and fruit in their axils prove the leaves are simple. These leaves are from 1 to 3 inches long, dark glossy-green above, whitish below, oblique at base and finely notched. The fruit is short-stalked, dark red to black, i
RMRDWD5C–. Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada. Botany, Economic; Botany; Botany. USEFUL WILD PLANTS Poison Ivy is very variable in habit, either a low, upright bush, or a vine climbing by aerial rootlets. Poison Ivy (Rhus Toxicodendron) over fences and far up into the crowns of treesJ It has leaves of three short-stalked leaflets, and T Some botanists prefer to treat Poison Ivy as of two species—^the climber being designated Rhus radicans. 256. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appe
RMPG2GAR–. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. VITEX 289 deeply-notched leaves, and axillary clusters of blue (or white) flowers in stalked clusters. The leaves are 2 to 3 inches long. The flowers have a 5-lobed oblique-edged border and 4 protruding stamens. The fruit sepa- rates into 4 seed-like nutlets. (Called Blue ' Spirea ' by the nursery- men.) [Twig cuttings; seeds.] Calliciirpa. The Callicarpas are opposite-leaved shrubs, with axil- lary clusters of small, usually blue berries, which remain on bright. Fig. 502. —Blue 'Spirea.' Fig. 503. — American Callicarpa. thr
RMREN41G–. Farm weeds and how to control them [microform]. Weeds; Botanique; Mauvaises herbes; Botany. A perennial natJve plant less than a foot m height but having tough spreading under- ground stems. Its flowers are small and not eonjpicuous, hanging short stalked in axils of the upper leaves. Leaves are rough nar- row and about an inch in length. This weed has been found very diflicult to eradicate and needs weU directed persistent efforts with riiarp unplements. In cultivated land It 18 first noticed around the edges of drj- sloughs or low fences, but soon spreads to the adjoining cultivated upland
RMPG1AHC–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Fig. 737. — Desert Ash. 17. TEXAS ASH—Fraxinus texana (A. Gray) Sargent Fraxinus americana texana A. Gray This tree inhabits bluffs and hillsides of central and western Texas. It some- times reaches a height of 16 meters and a trunk diameter of about i meter. The bark is thick, gray and rough, the young twigs round, and smooth or very nearly so from the first. The leaves have 5, or sometimes 7, long-stalked leaflets, whic
RMREKE96–. Illustrated key to the wild and commonly cultivated trees of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada [microform] : based primarily upon leaf characters. Trees; Trees; Arbres; Arbres. KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES 125 and fences, never becoming a tree. It is a near relative of the Poison Sumach and like that plant poisons many persons who handle it. It may be recognized by its compound leaves of three leaflets, the ter-. Fi^. 23S. Norway Mai)lc. minal one stalked, the margins with a few large teeth or none, and the milky juice. Flowers, fruits, poisonous properties, and remedies as in
RMPFYJA4–. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 700 LABIATAE (MINT FAMILY > 16. lAmIUM L. Dead Nettle Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, about 5-nerved, with 5 nearly equal awl-pointed teeth. Corolla dilated at the throat; upper lip ovate or oblong, arched, nar- rowed at the base; the middle lobe of the spreading lower lip broad, notched at the apex, contracted as if stalked at the base ; the lateral ones small, at the margin of the throat. — Decumbent herbs, the lowest leaves smaU and long- ' pet
RMREN40K–. Weeds of the farm and ranch [microform]. Sols; Weeds; Tillage; Mauvaises herbes. It SS DEPARTSfENT OF AoBICULTUBS COMMON EVENING PRIMROSE—Ocno/Aera hiennia. L. A tail, stoat native plant of biennial habit. Its leaves are from one to six inches long, pointed, narrowed at the base and closely attached to the stem, or short stalked. Its flowers, which open at night, are yellow and the seed pods grow close to the stem, about an inch in length, containing small irregularly shaped brown seeds. This weed is seldom troublesome except where crops have been sown on stubble and is easily destroyed by f
RMPG2EM9–. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. A 5. C. ni'gricans L. The black Cytisus. Dec. Prod., 2.p. 163.; Don's Mill., and our Jdentification. Lin. Sp., 1041 2. p. 155. Engravings. Jacq. Austr., t. 378. % Bot. Reg., t. J&-344. Spec. Char., ^c. Branches round, twiggy. Leaves stalked, and clothed with closely pressed down bene
RMRDW9DD–. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. 30 OBJECT LESSONS IN BOTANY. 88. Every one knows that the mmiber of leaflets in the Clover is three; also in the Bean, and in this figure (62) of the Desmodium leaf. Such leaves are called ternate. But here the pupil will notice another important distinction. In this Desmodium leaf, the odd leaflet is stalked, and is said to be pinnately ternate ; in Clover, tlie odd leaflet is nearly sessile, like the other leaflets ; this is palmately ternate.. Fig. 65. l*oi.--o
RMPG24T4–. Field crop production; a text-book for elementary courses in schools and brief courses in colleges. Agriculture. 202 FIELD CROP PRODUCTION to three and one-half feet in height, depending upon the soil. They are quite commonly from 15 to 24 inches high. The culms of blue-grass are round and smooth, and the smooth character gives to it the name of smooth-stalked meadow- grass, by which it is known in England. The leaves are smooth, narrow, and bright green in color. The culm leaves are few in num- ber and from 3 to 6 inches in length, while the basal leaves grow in abundance and are much longe
RMRDPR7F–. Notes on the life history of British flowering plants. Botany; Plant ecology. " ONAGRACEiE 187 regular. Three have the stigma deeply four-lobed, one, E. hirsutum, with clasping leaves, while the other two may be distinguished by the form of the leaves, which in one, E. montanum, are ovate or ovate-lanceolate, in the other, E. parviflorum, are lanceolate. The flowers also are small. Of the five species with a club-shaped stigma, two have the stem marked with two or four raised lines; E. tetragonum has sessile leaves, while in E. roseum they are shortly stalked. Of the three species with
RMPFYEHD–. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 156 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Garden GoosEBETiRY. Thorns large; flower-stalks short; berry bristly or smooth. R. Uva-crispa, 2. Prickly Wild G. Thorns slender or none; flowers greenish, long-stalked; stamens and style not projecting; berry prickly; leaves downy. Woods, N. R. Cynosbaii. 3. Small Wild G. Thorns very short or none; flowers purplish or greenish, very short-stalked; sta-
RMRDBEXM–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Tourney's Ash 803 It has a gray, fissured bark, 4 cm. thick or less, and round twigs, which are smooth from the first, but the bud-scales are finely hairy. The leaves are either quite smooth or a little rusty-hairy along the veins on the under side; they have either 3 or 5 stalked, rather thick leaflets, which are lanceolate to oblong, or the end one obovate, pointed, wedge-shaped at the base, the upper surface dark green
RMPFYEF4–. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 174 POPULAR FLORA. 2. Four-leaved L. Stem simple; leaves lance-ovate, in "whorls of 4 (sometimes of 3 or 6); flowers long-stallted from the axil of the leaves. Sandy grounds. L. quadrifolia. 3. CiLiATE L. Leaves opposite, lance-ovate, with a rounded or heart-shaped base, on long ciliate footstalks; flowers long-stalked from the upper axils; divisions of the corolla ovat
RMRE2JRG–. Our native orchids; a series of drawings from nature of all the species found in the northeastern United States. Orchids. Flowers single or in a loose raceme; leaves alternate or in a whorl; lip without a spur; anther stalked, attached to the back of the column; anther sacs parallel, poilinia without any stalk. IV. POGONIA P. 65. column. 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.. Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton
RMPG2HNM–. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. 106 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS KEY TO THE SPECIES OF STAPHYLEA * Leaves with 3 blades. (A.) A. All the blades short-stalked with serrate awned edges lj-2^ inches long; fruit 2-lobed and flattened, about an inch long; small shrub to 6 feet, from Japan. Japan Bladder Nut—. Staphylea Bumalda. A. End blade long-stalked, all finely serrated; upright shrub with stout branches 6-15 feet high ; pod 1^2 inches long. American Bladder Nut (111) — Staphylea trifblia. A. Similar to the last but the blades smoother and nearly orbicular; f
RMRDH6HX–. Morphology of gymnosperms. Gymnosperms; Plant morphology. 196 MORPHOLOGY OF GYMNOSPERMS material, and especially taking into account numerous abnormal cases, came to the conclusion that the stalk is a shoot usually bearing two rudimentary carpels (megasporophylls) which are represented. Fig. 223.—Ginkgo biloba: part of a long branch bearing dwarf branches with ovulate strobih.—After Coulter (54). by the two collars. The abnormal cases may be summed up as foUov/s: ovules on more or less modified foliage leaves; intergrades from nor- mal collars to blades bearing ovules; distinctly stalked ovu
RMPG1BJN–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 6o8 The Sumacs about 3 mm. long. The leaves are from 2 to 6 dm. long, with 11 to 31 leaflets and a romid hairy stalk and axis; the leaflets are very short-stalked or stalk- less, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 7 to 12 cm. long, long-pointed, sharply toothed, firm, dark green and nearly smooth on the upper surface when fully grown, pale and somewhat hairy, at least on the veins, on the imder side. The tree flowers in Jun
RMRE0PH5–. Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical. Botany, Economic; Botany. MEADOW FESCUE S43 for sowing on the stififer and damper class of soils in sheltered situations. It is less hardy than smooth-stalked meadow-grass, suffering more readily from frost and drought, and does not start growth so soon in spring. Wood Meadow-Grass {Poa nemoralis L.).—A perennial grass resembling the two previous species, but of more slender growth, and generally confined to shady places and woods. It has very narrow leaves and a very short ligule. Although it will endure a certain amount of drought when grown
RMPG2HTK–. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. Fig. 92. — New Jersey Tea. Fig. 93. — Everstieeu Ceauothus. Ceanbthus. The best example of this genus is New Jeeset Tea (92) —Ceauothus amerie^nus, — a red-rooted shrub 1-2 feet high with alternate (opposite in some of the species of the genus) simple leaves. The small flowers in summer are crowded in a dense slender-stalked cluster. The 3-lobed small capsules separate into 3 nut- lets and remain on through the winter. The peculiar flowers of the Ceanothus shown enlarged at (97) are the best test of the genus. Of the score o
RMRDYAWJ–. Plant life, considered with special references to form and function. Plant physiology. Fig. 64. Fi .65. Fig. 64.—Part of a plant of Blasia pusilla. The flaltfned lobed thallus is the gametophyte; the stalked capsules (one youni<, one bursted) are two sporophytes attached to it. Magnified 4 diam.—After Schiffner. Fig. 65.—Gametophyte and sporophyte of Fossombronia cristata. The thallus is so deeply lobed thai the divisions are usually called leaves. Magnified 15 diam.— After Schiffner.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanc
RMPG1AY4–. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 5. LONG STALKED STOPPER —Eugenia longipes Berg Although usually a low shrub, this rarely becomes a small tree up to 4 meters high, with a trunk i dm. in diameter. It grows in sandy or rocky soil in southern Florida and the Bahama islands. The twigs are slender, slightly hairy, reddish brown to gray. The leaves are thick and leath- ery, oblong to oval, i to 3 cm. long, sharp or blunt-pointed, narrowed or rounded at the bas
RMRDFE34–. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. Fig. 326. A. Regnellidium diphyllum Lind. Single leaf and stalked sporo- carp. (I nat. size. After Lindman.) B. Cuticle of Sagenopteris rhoifolia. (After Schenk.) of Sagenopteris with members of this family. In Regnellidium the leaves differ from those of Marsilia in bearing two instead of four leaflets, and in the former the veins are repeatedly forked, and do not anastomose as in Marsilia. In the possession of only two leaflets Regnellidium agrees with some forms of Sagenopteris (fig. 328). 1 Solms-Laubaoh (91) A. p. 182. 2
RMPG2HTN–. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. Fig. 92. — New Jersey Tea. Fig. 93. — Everstieeu Ceauothus. Ceanbthus. The best example of this genus is New Jeeset Tea (92) —Ceauothus amerie^nus, — a red-rooted shrub 1-2 feet high with alternate (opposite in some of the species of the genus) simple leaves. The small flowers in summer are crowded in a dense slender-stalked cluster. The 3-lobed small capsules separate into 3 nut- lets and remain on through the winter. The peculiar flowers of the Ceanothus shown enlarged at (97) are the best test of the genus. Of the score o
RMRDJN8N–. 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. SIMARUBACEAE. Vol. II. I. Ailanthus glandulosa Desf. Tree- of-Heaven. Ailanthus. Fig. 2694. Ailanthus glandulosa Desf. Mem. Acad. Paris 1786 ; 265. 1789. A tree, 40°-9O° high. Leaves i°-3° long, petioled, glabrous, odd-pinnate; leaflets 13- 41, opposite or nearly so, stalked, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cordate or truncate and often oblique at the base, acute or
RMPG2G57–. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. KEY TO THE SILVERY-SCALED SHRUBS, ETC. 305 * Leaves alternate, evergreen; usually flowering in the fall; hardy only South, small shrubs to 6 feet. (B.) E. no spines; leaves broad, silvery he- EvEEGKEEN El^agnus — Elsagnus B. Branchlets silvery-white neath. Lakge-leaved macrophylla. Branchlets brown; usually very spiny; leaves oval, undulate, 2-4 inches long, silvery beneath with some brownish scales; fruit short-stalked, | inch long, covered with silvery and brown scales; leaves often variegated with blotches and lines of wh
RMRDBBM0–. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XX] MARATTIALES 317 Angiopteris. This genus occurs in Polynesia, tropical Asia, and Mada- gascar ; it is characterised by a short and thick fleshy stem bearing large bipinnate leaves which occasionally show a forking of the rachis^, a feature reminiscent of some Palaeozoic fern-like fronds. One of the large plants of Angiopteris evecta in the Royal Gardens, Kew, bears leaves 12 feet in length with a stalk 6 inches in diameter at the base. The sessile or shortly stalked and rather leathery linear or broadly lanceolate pinnules
RMPFYEM4–. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 133 1. Shrubby or Althaea Hibiscus. Shrub B° to 10° high, smooth ; leaves wedge-ovate, tootheJ, 3-lobed ; flowers short-stalked, white, purple-red, &o. (single or double). Cultivated for orna- ment, n. Syr'iacus. â 2. Great Eed H. Herb 8° high from a perennial root, smooth; leaves deeply cleft into 5 lance-linear lobes; corolla red, 8' to 11' broad! S.
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