Wild Flowers Worth NoticeDavid Bogne, 1879 - 159 pages |
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... plant according to its peculiarities . It is very necessary for any one who ... plants as belonging to certain families , and from the established habits of ... belongs , and which comes first in nearly all works on Botany . RANUNCULACE¯ ...
... plant according to its peculiarities . It is very necessary for any one who ... plants as belonging to certain families , and from the established habits of ... belongs , and which comes first in nearly all works on Botany . RANUNCULACE¯ ...
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... belongs to an almost exceptional genus of the Ranunculus family . Its stem is climbing , and woody at the base ; it is the only British plant which gives us some faint notion of the bush ropes of the tropics . The woody stems sometimes ...
... belongs to an almost exceptional genus of the Ranunculus family . Its stem is climbing , and woody at the base ; it is the only British plant which gives us some faint notion of the bush ropes of the tropics . The woody stems sometimes ...
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... flower . It is constantly to be found in cornfields in the summer , from May to September in England and Ireland , and sometimes in Scotland . GLOBE FLOWER . TROLLIUS EUROPEUS . TROLLIUS EUROP¯US , Globe Flower , belongs also to the ...
... flower . It is constantly to be found in cornfields in the summer , from May to September in England and Ireland , and sometimes in Scotland . GLOBE FLOWER . TROLLIUS EUROPEUS . TROLLIUS EUROP¯US , Globe Flower , belongs also to the ...
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... plant is subject to great changes in cultivation , and readily produces ... belonging to the Ranunculace¿ . The leaves are either stalked or very close ... plants ; and the common species , A. Napellus , yields it in MONK'S - HOOD . 7 ...
... plant is subject to great changes in cultivation , and readily produces ... belonging to the Ranunculace¿ . The leaves are either stalked or very close ... plants ; and the common species , A. Napellus , yields it in MONK'S - HOOD . 7 ...
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Phebe Lankester. Belonging as it does to the order Ranunculace¿ it is often ... flower in pasture - land . But cows will not eat it at all unless obliged to do so ... plant and administer it to children as a cure for various kinds of fits ...
Phebe Lankester. Belonging as it does to the order Ranunculace¿ it is often ... flower in pasture - land . But cows will not eat it at all unless obliged to do so ... plant and administer it to children as a cure for various kinds of fits ...
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