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Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany (1858)

Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 139

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-t- ~t — Cultivated or run wild; root annual or biennial. 15. Heart’s-ease or Pansy V. Low; upper leaves oval, the lower heart-shaped; stipules large and leaf-like, pinnatifid; corolla yellow-whitish, violet-blue, and purple, varying or mixed, large and showy in the cultivated Pansy, becoming small… … 294 295 3 parietal placentas. 294. Flower, &c. of Frostweed. 295. Its calyx and pistil. 296. Its ovary cut across and magnified. Petals 5, yellow, falling after the flower has opened for one day only. Style none. Petals crumpled in the bud, ( Helidnthemum ) Frostweeu. Style slender. Little shrubs…

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