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Title: The American botanist and florist; including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, Alphonso, 1810-1881
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: New York, Chicago, A.S. Barnes & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hat is the Compound Umbel? 360. Describethe Panicle—TheThyrse. 361. What is the Head ? 362. Describe the Capitulum of Com-positiE. What its involucre?—Its outer flowers?—Its inner flowers? 363. Name thevarieties of Terminal Inflorescence. 364. Describe the Cyme. ShoAV by fig. 456 how it isdeveloped. 365. Nature of the scorpoid cyme. 366. What is the glomerule? 367. Showthe relations of Spike to Raceme—Of Raceme to Corymb, etc. (457-464.) *** Hitherto we have treated of the organisms of the Phsenogamia, or FloweringPlants, the higher of the two Subkingdoms of the vegetable Avorld. The other Subkicg-dom, called the Cryptogamia, or FloMerless Plants, includes the lower tribes of vegeta-tion, such as the Ferns, Mosses, Lichens, etc., never adorned with flowers, and producingspores instead of seeds. For the Morphology of these tribes, see the Class Book of Bot-any, pp. 124-129. Or study carefully the descriptions at the head of the several Crypto-gamic Orders in the present volume.
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P^ Fig. 460 Us, A Fern ; Polypodium vulgare. 461 M.9, Club-moss ; Lycopodiura dendroideum. 462 6»s,Equisetum (Scouring Rush). 463 Us, a Liverwort Moss ; Jungermannia. 464 his, a Fungus or Mush-room ; Agaricus, in three stages of growth. PART SECOND. PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY, ^ * » CHAPTER I. OF THE VEGETABLE CELL. 368. At the head of this chapter we place a sketch represent-ing a thin cutting from the rhizome of Bloodroot, as seen underthe microscope, magnified 100 diameters. It is all made up ofcells, of various forms andcolors, some green and redtranslucent, and otherspurely transparent. Themicroscope reveals a sim-ilar structure in all plants.In the pith of Elder, pulj)of Snowberry, and espe-cially in the pulp ofOrange, we can discernthe cells with the nakedeye. Therefore— 369. The cell is the el-ementary organism whichby its repetitions makes 465 .-1 v ^^ J- 465, Section of tlie rhizome of Bloodroot; a, a, a bundle of up tne mass OI an Veo^eta- wood-eells. The shaded cells contain

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