South African Flowering Plants: For the Use of Beginners, Students and TeachersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 287 páginas |
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... scales ; they are really shortened and thickened leaf - stalks , without any blades , which con- tain a quantity of nourishment , chiefly starch , for the bud which is in the middle to live upon when it be- gins to grow , and until it ...
... scales ; they are really shortened and thickened leaf - stalks , without any blades , which con- tain a quantity of nourishment , chiefly starch , for the bud which is in the middle to live upon when it be- gins to grow , and until it ...
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... scale - like Bracts , as they are called , outside flowers , as of " Everlastings , " which are coloured . Sometimes the calyxis white or coloured , as of Clem'atis and Anem'one . Generally it is the corolla which invites them . Besides ...
... scale - like Bracts , as they are called , outside flowers , as of " Everlastings , " which are coloured . Sometimes the calyxis white or coloured , as of Clem'atis and Anem'one . Generally it is the corolla which invites them . Besides ...
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... scales of which they are composed store up water which keeps them from drying up , and enables them to start into growth when the proper time comes round . It is not only nearly all the lily - like plants which have bulbs , but many ...
... scales of which they are composed store up water which keeps them from drying up , and enables them to start into growth when the proper time comes round . It is not only nearly all the lily - like plants which have bulbs , but many ...
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... scales . There is a kind of onion growing in the intensely hot sand of the desert near Cairo , which , to keep the innermost scales fresh , hardens the outer ones till they feel like wooden coverings . The temperature of the sand may be ...
... scales . There is a kind of onion growing in the intensely hot sand of the desert near Cairo , which , to keep the innermost scales fresh , hardens the outer ones till they feel like wooden coverings . The temperature of the sand may be ...
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... scales ; x , roots . B , After removal of the enveloping scales : y , bud , which will develop into next year's corm ; z , bulbil . act as reservoirs of water and nourishing matters . Fig . 23 illustrates a South African kind of ...
... scales ; x , roots . B , After removal of the enveloping scales : y , bud , which will develop into next year's corm ; z , bulbil . act as reservoirs of water and nourishing matters . Fig . 23 illustrates a South African kind of ...
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South African Flowering Plants: For the Use of Beginners, Students and Teachers George Henslow Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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