British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 12Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... leaves reclining , alternate , shining , eight inches long , numerous on the younger branch- es ; leaflets mostly in four pairs , quite entire , acuminate , bent in backwards , petioled , opposite , an inch and a half long ; racemes sub ...
... leaves reclining , alternate , shining , eight inches long , numerous on the younger branch- es ; leaflets mostly in four pairs , quite entire , acuminate , bent in backwards , petioled , opposite , an inch and a half long ; racemes sub ...
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... leaves capillaceous , in whorls ; flowers axillary , white , peduncled , soli- tary . It is a native of Guiana , in rivulets . SYLLABLE , in grammar , a part of a word , consisting of one or more letters , pronounced together ...
... leaves capillaceous , in whorls ; flowers axillary , white , peduncled , soli- tary . It is a native of Guiana , in rivulets . SYLLABLE , in grammar , a part of a word , consisting of one or more letters , pronounced together ...
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... leaves weaved , pointed , veiny , rough ; the radical leaves on foot stalks , broader than the rest ; clusters of flowers , in pairs , on a common foot - stalk , with an odd flower between them ; co- rolla yellowish white , sometimes ...
... leaves weaved , pointed , veiny , rough ; the radical leaves on foot stalks , broader than the rest ; clusters of flowers , in pairs , on a common foot - stalk , with an odd flower between them ; co- rolla yellowish white , sometimes ...
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... leaves , and which might easily be supposed , by a cursory observer , the real leaves of some of the fuci tribe . In the one presented to Sir Joseph Banks , and engraved in Shaw's Zoology , there are fourteen of This animal these ...
... leaves , and which might easily be supposed , by a cursory observer , the real leaves of some of the fuci tribe . In the one presented to Sir Joseph Banks , and engraved in Shaw's Zoology , there are fourteen of This animal these ...
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... leaves acute , quite entire , scarcely wav- ed , half a foot long . Cymes ample , hand- some , convex , axillary ... leaf , subsolitary , petioled , ternate , or biternate ; leaflets laciniate pinnati- fied , acute , spreading ...
... leaves acute , quite entire , scarcely wav- ed , half a foot long . Cymes ample , hand- some , convex , axillary ... leaf , subsolitary , petioled , ternate , or biternate ; leaflets laciniate pinnati- fied , acute , spreading ...
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