Elements of Botany, Including Organography, Vegetable Histology, Vegetable Physiology, Vegetable Taxonomy, and a Glossary of Botanical Terms. Illustrated by Nearly Five Hundred Engravings from Drawings by the Author

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G. P. Engelhard, 1887 - Botany - 282 pages
 

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Page 21 - Multiply together the numerators for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.
Page 190 - By day the leaflets are expanded so as to expose as large a surface as possible to the...
Page 184 - ... to protect it from the attack of worms and insects. Even certain flowers (wax plant) have been known for ages to give out odors which render them dangerous to life and make them fungi-proof. During the time that the constructive work of plants goes on, there proceeds also a work of disintegration. In the economy of the organism, life and death go hand in hand. The alkaloids, resins and volatile oils are waste products, so far at least as nutritious purposes are concerned; however, they are of...
Page 99 - ... are the product of one flower but of more than one pistil are called Aggregated Fruits. Raspberry is an example. Fruits that are the products of flower clusters instead of single flowers are called Multiple Fruits. Sorosis, is a multiple fruit of which the mulberry is an example. Strobile or Cone, is a multiple fruit consisting of a scale-bearing axis, each scale enclosing one or more seeds. Pine cones are examples. Galbulus, is a cone, the scales of which have become succulent. The juniper berry...
Page 268 - ... —A breathing pore found in the epidermis of the higher plants. STROBILE. — A compact flower cluster with large scales concealing the flowers. When this cluster matures and contains seeds it is still called a strobile. STYLE. — That part of the pistil which connects the ovary with the stigma. SUPERIOR. — Applied to an ovary that is not at all adherent to the calyx. SYNCARP. — A multiple fruit. TAPROOT. — The main root or downward continuation of the plant axis.
Page 159 - These cells are elongated in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the leaf, and hence the name palisade tissue has been applied to them. The...
Page 268 - Tetradynamous, applied to stamens when there are six in the flower, four of them longer than the other two. Tetragonal, four-angled.
Page ii - It was borne on the same stalk with a flower which had the ordinary form of the species. Its organs were arranged in five alternating whorls, each of three pieces, save the third, which consisted of but two ; the floral organs were adnate to the ovary, the stamens gynandrous, and the styles united as in the ordinary forms; but the ovary was not twisted, the stigmas were deeply and equally three-!obed, and the leaves of the perianth were equally devetoped.
Page 112 - Some of the hyposulphites will be more fully described when we come to treat of the metals.
Page 63 - under the ovary"). When the ovary is encircled by the other floral whorls, it is said to be half-inferior, or the flower is perigynous ("around the ovary "). When the petals and stamens appear to spring from the top of the ovary, it is said to be inferior, or the flower is epigynoux (" upon the ovary "), as in the evening primrose, (fig.

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