Botanical Gazette, Volumes 11-12University of Chicago Press, 1886 |
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... glumes are very small and the lower one is sometimes wholly wanting . AGROPYRUM VIOLACEUM , Hornem . - This grass was collected at Ft . Conger , Grinnell Land , by Lieut . Greely and Dr. D. L. Brainard . The specimens are fine , 8-15 cm ...
... glumes are very small and the lower one is sometimes wholly wanting . AGROPYRUM VIOLACEUM , Hornem . - This grass was collected at Ft . Conger , Grinnell Land , by Lieut . Greely and Dr. D. L. Brainard . The specimens are fine , 8-15 cm ...
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... glume the “ upper one , " and the 4th or flower- ing glume he calls a " somewhat obtuse perfect flower . " In describing Stipa spartea he says the glumes , meaning the two empty ones , are longer than the " palets . ' One of these ...
... glume the “ upper one , " and the 4th or flower- ing glume he calls a " somewhat obtuse perfect flower . " In describing Stipa spartea he says the glumes , meaning the two empty ones , are longer than the " palets . ' One of these ...
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... glumes and in the shorter awns . Graphephorum melicoides , usually described as awnless , is sometimes short awned like G. Wolfii . So closely allied are these two species , that slender forms of the latter might easily be mistaken for ...
... glumes and in the shorter awns . Graphephorum melicoides , usually described as awnless , is sometimes short awned like G. Wolfii . So closely allied are these two species , that slender forms of the latter might easily be mistaken for ...
Page 105
... glume 2 - nervis , posterior enervis evadat . Gluma florens vacuis tertia parte brevior , membranacea , carinata ... glumes of these spikelets , anterior view . One of the spikelets with a short pedicel , exterior view . Fig . 7 ...
... glume 2 - nervis , posterior enervis evadat . Gluma florens vacuis tertia parte brevior , membranacea , carinata ... glumes of these spikelets , anterior view . One of the spikelets with a short pedicel , exterior view . Fig . 7 ...
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... glume , with its palea , etc. , removed from the outer glumes . The short rhachilla which is prolonged behind the palea . The palea , dorsal view . Fig . 9 . Fig . 10 . The fruit , to which is attached by adnation a stamen , the anther ...
... glume , with its palea , etc. , removed from the outer glumes . The short rhachilla which is prolonged behind the palea . The palea , dorsal view . Fig . 9 . Fig . 10 . The fruit , to which is attached by adnation a stamen , the anther ...
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Page 78 - Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before.
Page 3 - A Notice of Some New, Rare, or Otherwise Interesting Plants, from the Northern and Western Portions of the State of New York.
Page 195 - Europe, and in 1886 the degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by the University of North Carolina.
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Page 264 - Fruit oblong, flattened dorsally : carpel with 5 slender bristly primary ribs and 4 winged secondary ones, each bearing a single row of prominent barbed prickles...