The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4 |
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... leaves from two to three inches long , and scarcely half an inch in breadth ; flowers small , terminating the stem and branches in a close raceme ; both corolla and calyx yellow ; petals notched at the end ; seed vessels on slender ...
... leaves from two to three inches long , and scarcely half an inch in breadth ; flowers small , terminating the stem and branches in a close raceme ; both corolla and calyx yellow ; petals notched at the end ; seed vessels on slender ...
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... leaves are petioled and the flowers in terminating racemes . The stigma is headed in this spe- cies , whereas in the other it is bifid or double ; the former is a native of North America ; the latter of Carolina and Ja- maica . ITTRIA ...
... leaves are petioled and the flowers in terminating racemes . The stigma is headed in this spe- cies , whereas in the other it is bifid or double ; the former is a native of North America ; the latter of Carolina and Ja- maica . ITTRIA ...
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... leaves or knots , or else knotty , with a sheathing leaf at each knot ; flowers terminating or late- ral , corymbed or panicled , with the branch- lets spathaceous at the base . These plants agree with the grasses in the glumes of their ...
... leaves or knots , or else knotty , with a sheathing leaf at each knot ; flowers terminating or late- ral , corymbed or panicled , with the branch- lets spathaceous at the base . These plants agree with the grasses in the glumes of their ...
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... leaves alter- nate , five - lobed , cordate at the base ; lobes rounded , blunt ; they are hirsute , and underneath hoary ; panicle terminating , large , decompounded ; heads of flowers small , heaped . It is a native of South America ...
... leaves alter- nate , five - lobed , cordate at the base ; lobes rounded , blunt ; they are hirsute , and underneath hoary ; panicle terminating , large , decompounded ; heads of flowers small , heaped . It is a native of South America ...
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... leaves nearly six inches long , on short foot stalks . Flowers at the ends of the branches in a loose spike , they are white , and have a scent like jas- mine , whence in Jamaica and other islands of the West Indies , where it is a ...
... leaves nearly six inches long , on short foot stalks . Flowers at the ends of the branches in a loose spike , they are white , and have a scent like jas- mine , whence in Jamaica and other islands of the West Indies , where it is a ...
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