A Class Compend of Pharmaceutic Botany Embracing an Elementary Treatise on the Structural, Morphologic, Microscopic, Physiologic and Systematic Departments of Botany, Designed Especially for Students of Pharmacy and Pharmacists |
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Page 139 - Multiply together the numerators for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.
Page 211 - ... employed in their classification ; those which are common to the greatest number of plants being used for the primary grand divisions ; those less comprehensive for subordinate groups, &c. ; so that the character or description of each group, when fully given, actually expresses all the known particulars in which the plants it embraces agree among themselves, and differ from other groups of the same rank. This complete analysis being carried through the system, from the primary divisions down...
Page 47 - Ginseng families, when it is said to be epigynous (273). 332. In Nelumbium, — a large Water-Lily, abounding in the waters of our Western States, — the singular and greatly enlarged receptacle is shaped like a top, and bears the small pistils immersed in separate cavities of its flat upper surface (Fig. 284). LESSON XX. THE FRUIT. 333. THE ripened ovary, with its contents, becomes the Fruit. When the tube of the calyx adheres to the ovary, it also becomes a part of the fruit : sometimes it even...
Page 229 - NYMPU.EACE.S:, 54 2. Calyx more or less coherent with the surface of the (compound) ovary. Ovary 10-30-celled : ovules many, on the partitions : aquatic.
Page 82 - The same, divided lengthwise, to show the contained seed. case a simple carpel), is apparent by its bearing the remains of a style or stigma, or a scar from which this has fallen. It may retain the style and use it in various ways for dissemination (Fig.
Page 54 - ... each other by their edges ; thus giving rise to valvate vernation (fig. 205 A). At other times they are at different levels, and are applied over each other, so as to be imbricated, as in Lilac, and in the outer scales of Sycamore (figs. 203, 204) ; and occasionally the margin of one leaf overlaps that of another, while it, in its turn, is overlapped by a third, so as to be twisted or spiral (fig.
Page 80 - Aggregate, when a cluster of carpels of the same flower are crowded into a mass; as in Raspberries and Blackberries (Fig.
Page 116 - The Bulb, strictly so-called, is a stem like a reduced corm as to its solid part (or plate) ; while the main body consists of thickened scales, which are leaves or leaf-bases.
Page 99 - ... and consequently in a downward direction, so long as the soil in contact with its lower surface is more moist than that above.
Page 206 - Taxonomy (ra^if, order, and nftof, law). There have been two great plans proposed in Botany, one denominated artificial, the other natural. The first is founded on characters taken from certain parts of plants only, without reference to others; while the second takes into account all the parts of plants, and involves the idea of affinity in essential organs. 3. There must Le also the means of detecting the position of a plant in a system by short diagnostic marks.