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 215
203 POPULAR FLORA. CLASS II. — ENDOGENS OR MONOCOTYLEDONS. Stem having the wood in threads or bundles, interspersed among the pith or ' cellular part, not forming a ring or layer, and not increasing by annual layers. Leaves parallel-veined, not branching and forming meshes of network. To this some… … 500. Endogenous stem of one year old, shown in a Corn-stalk. S'H. One of several years ord, of Palmetto. Parallel-veined leaves of the two kinds : 502. that of Lily of the Valley ; 503. one of Calla 504. Magnified section of the seed of Iris, showing the small monocotyledonous embryo. 505. Plantlet…
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