A Natural Arrangement of British Plants: According to Their Relations to Each Other as Pointed Out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c. ... with an Introduction to Botany, Volume 1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1821 - Botany |
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Achar Agardh Disp Agardh Syn Agaricus Angl apothecia awlshape bark blackish blunt Boletus bottom branched brown brownish Bryum calyptra calyx capsule ovate cartilaginous centre Clavaria colour compressed Conferva convex cotyledons crenate Crust cylindrical Dickson Crypt Dicranum Dillen in Raii Dillen Musc edge Engl flat flowers fruit Fucus Fung Germ gills globular Hedw Hoffm Hooker Jung Hymenium Hypnum inches jags joints Jungermannia lanceolate leaflike leatherlike leaves Lecidea Lich Lichen Lichenoides linear Lobaria lobes long as broad Lycoperdon Lyngbye Hydr main rib membranaceous Meth naked nearly oblong pale Parmelia pedicelled peduncles peridium peristome perithecium Persoon Syn Peziza plants podetia powdery Raii Syn rocks Roth Cat round roundish scattered Sea-shore seed serrated sessile slender slightly smooth Sowerby Fungi Sphæria Sporangia Sporangium sporidia stamens Stem long thalloid border Thallus Theca thecæ thick threadlike Threads tiledlike trunks of trees tufts twigs Ulva upright vulgaris whitish woods yellowish
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Page ii - But, should he hide his face, th' astonish'd sun, And all th' extinguish'd stars, would loosening reel Wide from their spheres, and chaos come again. And yet was every faultering tongue of man, Almighty Father! silent in thy praise, Thy works themselves would raise a general voice, Even in the depth of solitary woods By human foot untrod ; proclaim thy power, And to the quire celestial Thee resound, Th...
Page 14 - English name, even amongst the physicians, of any herbe or tree, such was the ignorance at that time ; and as yet there was no English herbal, but one all full of unlearned cacographics and falsely naming of herbes.
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