The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... usually given to the more familiar forms , the most important of the gourds , from an economic point of view , is perhaps C. maxima , the Potiron Jaune of the French , the red and yellow gourd of British gardeners , the spheroidal fruit ...
... usually given to the more familiar forms , the most important of the gourds , from an economic point of view , is perhaps C. maxima , the Potiron Jaune of the French , the red and yellow gourd of British gardeners , the spheroidal fruit ...
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... usually added . These minerals are aggregated together without the presence of any matrix or connecting . medium . Thin sections of a true granite , examined under the microscope by transmitted light , show Orthoclase , or potash ...
... usually added . These minerals are aggregated together without the presence of any matrix or connecting . medium . Thin sections of a true granite , examined under the microscope by transmitted light , show Orthoclase , or potash ...
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... usually well developed , and often forms very long creeping or sub- terranean rhizomes , with elongated internodes and sheathing scales ; it is also frequently short , with the nodes crowded . The very large root - stock of the bamboos ...
... usually well developed , and often forms very long creeping or sub- terranean rhizomes , with elongated internodes and sheathing scales ; it is also frequently short , with the nodes crowded . The very large root - stock of the bamboos ...
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... usually set in at an angle with the former the nature of bracts . These are so arranged round the sometimes trifid and occasionally beautifully feathery . The small flowers as to form spikelets ( locustee ) , and each lower part is most ...
... usually set in at an angle with the former the nature of bracts . These are so arranged round the sometimes trifid and occasionally beautifully feathery . The small flowers as to form spikelets ( locustee ) , and each lower part is most ...
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... usually hermaphro- dite , but there are very many exceptions . Thus it is very common to find one or more imperfect ( usually male ) flowers in the same spikelet with bisexual ones , and their relative position is important in ...
... usually hermaphro- dite , but there are very many exceptions . Thus it is very common to find one or more imperfect ( usually male ) flowers in the same spikelet with bisexual ones , and their relative position is important in ...
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