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• -- Under this name are imported into this country the dried foliaceous tops of a strongly odoriferous labiate plant, growing three feet high in India and China, called in Bengalee and Hindu, _pucha pat_. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
• In a species of _Triumfetta_ (see p. 260), of which I examined dried specimens, the ovary was open and partly foliaceous; it bore on its infolded margins ten erect leaflets, representing so many ovules; each leaflet was conduplicate, the back being turned towards the placenta. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• After mastering authentic evidence, foliaceous gentleman and bargaining of new egg China.
• Terminal flowers are more subject to it than lateral ones, and if the latter, by accident, become terminal, they seem peculiarly liable to assume a foliaceous condition. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• These foliaceous heaps lie along the bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that Nature is “in full blast” within. Walden
• The fruits are spineless but with several or many foliaceous scales.
• The adventitious organs appeared as if they were developments from the thalamus -- a kind of foliaceous disc, in fact. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body. Walden
• In this second class of cases the corolla is papilionaceous, the filaments free, the carpellary leaf on a long stalk provided with stipules, its blade more or less like the usual carpel, with its margins disunited or more commonly united with the ovules in the interior, sometimes represented by a foliaceous, dentate primine only. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• I opened the stomachs of several, and found them largely distended with minced sea-weed (Ulvæ), which grows in thin foliaceous expansions of a bright green or a dull red colour. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle