The Child's BotanyCarter and Hendee, 1832 - 98 páginas |
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abundance America animals Annual plants anther apple bark beautiful beets belong berries biennial Biennial plants Bilberry Blood Root blossom botanists Botany branches bunches bush calyx colour common cordate corol cultivated dandelion describe different kinds different plants Digynia divided earth East Indies egrette exotic feet high find a flower flower-gardens flowers forests fruit Gamboge gather genus grass green green-house grows wild herbarium hexandria Indians indigenous Jersey Tea Lady's Slipper leaf leaves and flowers lily Linnæus Maple meadows medicine Monogynia New-England nuts orange Parasitic plants parcels pedate Perennial plants pericarp petals plants grow plants live pleasant pollen poplar produce purple rose Shady plants shrub Six stamens sixth class sometimes called species spring stalk stamens and pistils stamens standing Stamens united stem sugar summer tell tree TRIANDRIA tulip turnip weed West Indies white flowers Witch-hazel woods yellow Yellow Water-Lily
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Página 2 - DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the sixth day of December- AD 1827, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, CHARLES BECK- of the said District, has deposited in this Office the...
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Página 2 - DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, tO Wit .' District 'Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that...
Página 57 - MONA'NDRIA. This class includes all plants having a single stamen in each of their flowers. 2. DIA'NDRIA. Two stamens in each flower. 3. TRIA'NDRIA. Three stamens. 4. TETRA'NDRIA. Four stamens. 5. PENTA'NDRIA. Five stamens. 6. HEXA'NDRIA. Six stamens. 7. HEPTA'NDRIA. Seven stamens. 8. OCTA'NDRIA. Eight stamens. 9. ENNEA'NDRIA. Nine stamens. 10. DECA'NDRIA. Ten stamens. 11.
Página 58 - PENTA'NDRIA. Five stamens. 6. HEXA'NDRIA. Six stamens. 7. HEPTA'NDRIA. Seven stamens. 8. OCTA'NDRIA. Eight stamens. 9. ENNEA/NDRIA. Nine stamens. 10. DECA'NDRIA. Ten stamens. 11. DODECA'NDRIA.
Página 6 - More than THIRTY THOUSAND have been already disc.overed ! These vary in size from the smallest mosses to the largest trees. And the mosses that grow on rocks and fences and the trunks of trees have seeds as well as the larger plants ; but they are so small that you cannot see them with the naked eye. It is necessary to look at them through a microscope or good magnifying glass, and then they may be seen very distinctly.
Página 48 - The pistil is that part which stands in the centre of the flower, surrounded by the stamens — as the large green substance in a tulip. Some flowers have but one pistil, and others have several. The pistil is divided into three parts, viz., the stigma, germ, and style. The stigma is the lower knob that is seated on the end of the pistil. The germ is the lower part of the pistil, which, when it is ripe, contains the seed. The...
Página 49 - ... knob that is seated on the end of the pistil. The germ is the lower part of the pistil, which, when it is ripe, contains the seed. The style is that part of the pistil which connects the stigma with the germ. The style of the lily is very long, but the tulip has no style. Many flowers have no style. The pericarp is the bag that contains the seed ; sometimes called the seed-bag. Whatever contains the seed of a plant is called the pericarp. Different plants produce a different number of seeds....
Página 8 - We all know that God makes plants to live and grow; but the manner of their growing is very curious. Their life and growth are very much like our own. The circulation of the blood in the veins supports the life of an animal : the blood is formed from what it eats, and it is continually carried from the heart to all parts of the body ; and when it is stopped at the heart the animal immediately dies. In the same way the sap is drawn from the earth to the roots, and through small passages, like the...
Página 48 - ... of the flower, surrounded by the stamens ; as the large green substance in a tulip. Some flowers have but one pistil, and others have several. The pistil is divided into three parts, viz. the stigma, germ, and style. The stigma is the lower knob that is seated on the end of the pistil. The germ is the lower part of the pistil, which when it is ripe contains the seed. The style is that part of the pistil which connects the stigma with the germ. The style of the lily is very long, but the tulip...