Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 3. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 428
... flowers as pro- ceed from a common hufky calyx belonging to graffes , called gluma ; many of which are placed on a common receptacle called rachis , collecting the florets into the fpike , as triticum , hordeum , fecale , lolium , & c ...
... flowers as pro- ceed from a common hufky calyx belonging to graffes , called gluma ; many of which are placed on a common receptacle called rachis , collecting the florets into the fpike , as triticum , hordeum , fecale , lolium , & c ...
Page 433
... flowers have generally no petals : Sometimes the fame amentum fupports both male and female flowers , diftinct , on the fame plant , as in car- pinus , & c .; fometimes the male and female flowers are removed from each other on the fame ...
... flowers have generally no petals : Sometimes the fame amentum fupports both male and female flowers , diftinct , on the fame plant , as in car- pinus , & c .; fometimes the male and female flowers are removed from each other on the fame ...
Page 457
... flowers bore feeds , which grew on being fown . I have frequently fince amufed myself with taking the male flowers from one plant , and scattering them over the female flowers of another , and have always found the feeds of the latter ...
... flowers bore feeds , which grew on being fown . I have frequently fince amufed myself with taking the male flowers from one plant , and scattering them over the female flowers of another , and have always found the feeds of the latter ...
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