The Manchester Flora: A Descriptive List of the Plants Growing Wild Within Eighteen Miles of Manchester, with Notices of the Plants Commonly Cultivated in Gardens : Preceded by an Introduction to BotanyW. White, 1859 - 579 páginas |
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abundant Annual anthers August axillary Baguley Baxter beautiful blossoms borders Bowdon bracts branches called calyx capsule carpels catkins Chorlton clusters colour common corolla corymbs Cotterill Clough crimson cultivated Curtis dense distinguished E. B. viii E. B. xi edges erect everywhere feet high female five Flora florets flowers foliage four fronds fruit gardens genus glabrous green green-houses ground grow wild HABITATS AND LOCALITIES hairy Hale Moss HEATH hedgebanks hedges herbaceous herbaceous plants inches high inches long July June lanceolate leaf leaflets leaves Lichen Lindow Common lobes Lymm Manchester Marple meadows Mobberley nearly numerous oblong oval ovary ovate panicles peduncles pendulous perianth petals petioles pinnate pinnatifid pistils plentiful ponds Prestwich purple racemes rare resembling Rostherne seeds sepals serrate sessile shrubs slender solitary Southport species Spikelets spikes stalks stamens Stems stigmas trees tufts umbels unisexual upper usually variety wild in England woods yellow
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Página 440 - My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore, Some summer morning, When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?
Página 175 - mid a grove Of yet unfaded trees she lifts her head Decked with autumnal berries, that outshine Spring's richest blossoms ; and ye may have marked, By a brook-side or solitary tarn, How she her station doth adorn : the pool Glows at her feet, and all the gloomy rocks Are brightened round her. In his native vale Such and so glorious did this Youth appear...
Página 295 - All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair — The bees are stirring — birds are on the wing — And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Página 210 - Little herbaceous plants, usually with white flowers, ccespitose leaves and glandular stems : some of the species have yellow flowers, others have red, but none blue. They are natives of mountainous tracts in Europe and the northern parts of the world, frequently forming the chief beauty of that rich turf which is found near the snow in high Alpine stations.
Página 200 - A numerous Order of herbaceous plants, extending over almost all parts of the world, from the regions of perpetual snow upon the summits of the mountains of Europe, to the hottest sands of South America and India. They, however, do not appear in the Flora of Melville Island ; but they form part of that of the Straits of Magellan.
Página 146 - ... Orders, at the same time approaching in some parts of their territory to those perigynous plants which are stationed with Scleranths in Ficoidals. Weeds, inhabiting waste places in all parts of the world, but unlike Amaranths, abounding least within the tropics, and most in extra-tropical regions. They are exceedingly common in all the northern parts of Europe and Asia, and are frequent inhabitants of salt marshes. Some are used as potherbs, as Spinage, English Mercury (Chenopodium Bonus Henricus),...
Página 501 - CHARACE^E are aquatic plants, composed of an axis consisting of parallel tubes, which are either transparent or encrusted with carbonate of lime, and of whorls of symmetrical tubular branches ; they are multiplied by spiral-coated nucules filled with starch.
Página 27 - ... resemble nuts and other fruits. This is the case with the seeds of the horse-chesnut, and with many that are brought as curiosities from tropical countries. There is an infallible distinction between a fruit and a seed, however much they may resemble ; — the fruit always has a scar at the base...
Página 532 - Hybrid, a plant resulting from the fecundation of one species by another, a cross between two species.
Página 127 - ... opening by twice as many teeth or valves as there are styles; seeds inserted on a central column. The plants of this order are herbaceous or shrubby, inhabiting the mountains and pastures of the temperate and frigid zones of the globe. In Europe they are particularly abundant, and least so in Africa and America. Many, as the Carnations and Pinks, have highly...