A Natural Arrangement of British Plants: According to Their Relations to Each Other as Pointed Out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c. ...Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1821 |
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A Natural Arrangement of British Plants: According to Their Relations to ... Samuel Frederick 1766-1828 Gray No preview available - 2015 |
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1-celled 1-flowered 3-sided 5-lobed 5-parted acute akenium Alpine Angl annual anthers awlshape awned axillary bipinnate blunt bottom bractea branched calathides calyx capsule Carex cariopsides corculum corolla cotyledons culm cylindrical Dillen in Raii Dioscorides downy edge elliptical feet high fleshy flore flowers flowrets foliis folio fruit glaucous glumes Gramen green hairy heartshape Herb herbaceous hermaphrodite Huds imbricate involucrum July and August June and July lanceolate leaflets leafy leaves lanceolate leaves linear leaves ovate legumen ligula lobes locusta many-flowered naked nearly nicked oblong obtuse ovary panicle pappus Park pastures pedicelled peduncles perennial pericline perigonium perisperm petals petioled pinnate pinnatifid purple racemes radical radicle Raii Syn ribbed Root creeping Root fibrous rough roundish Salisb Salix scape seeds sepales serrated sessile sheaths short shrubby Silicula slender Smith Fl smooth solitary spathelles spathellule spike spikelets spreading stamens Stem upright stigma stigmata style sylvestris terminal toothed umbells upper villous vulgaris yellow
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Page 323 - ... great effect in reducing arterial action and retarding the pulse, and this action is frequently exerted suddenly, by the accumulated effects of small doses, so that if the practitioner be not constantly on his guard he may be surprised by the occurrence of fatal symptoms, and lose his patient, even after he has relinquished the use of the medicine.
Page 511 - Umbels terminal or opposite the leaves, on long stalks — flowers white, petals unequal, nicked, 2-lobed, with a hollow on each side. The three long pendulous leaves of the partial involucre, all on one side, distinguish this from every other umbellate plant. When eaten in mistake for parsley it occasions vomiting, which may be stopped by a large doze of brandy. GENUS XLI. NEEDLE CHERVIL, Scandixe.
Page 520 - Leaves strong-scented; seeds slightly aromatic, used to cover the taste of senna, and in spices, as currie powder, and seasoning for black puddings...
Page 663 - Leaf-hairs support globules of liquor even in the hottest weather, are very irritable, and close upon small insects that touch them, after which the leaf itself bends and holds the dead insect imprisoned.
Page 219 - Camlolle, for ihe present, into four artificial subseries resting upon the differences observable in their petals and stamens, until a natural arrangement by their affinities shall be discovered.
Page 520 - Formerly, they were steeped in wine or vinegar, and then dried, to render them milder.
Page 667 - Stem leafed, downy ; branches upright , leaves alternate, petioled, rarely slightly downy on the edges ; flowers axillary, single, inodorous; peduncles very long ; petals purple and yellow, reverse heartshape.