... in its substance, and of evaporating pores on its surface, enables the crude fluid sent from the roots to be elaborated and digested until it becomes the peculiar secretion of the species; the contraction of a branch and its leaves forms a flower... An Introduction to Botany - Page 217by John Lindley - 1832 - 557 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Claudius Loudon - Arboriculture - 1835 - 1326 pages
...the plant ; an expansion of the bark into a leaf, within which ramify veins proceeding from the scat of nutritive matter in the new shoot, the provision...folding inwards of a leaf is sufficient to constitute a pistillum ; and, finally, the gorging of the pistillum with fluid which it cannot part with causes... | |
| Natural theology - 1836 - 300 pages
...veins proceeding from the seat of nutritive matter in the new shoot, the provision of air passages in its substance, and of evaporating pores on its...peculiar secretion of the species : the contraction of the branch and its leaves forms a. flower ; the disintegration of the internal tissue of a petal forms... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1836 - 572 pages
...veins proceeding from the seat of nutritive matter in the new shoot, the provision of air passages in its substance, and of evaporating pores on its...peculiar secretion of the species : the contraction of the branch and its leaves forms &Jloiver ; the disintegration of the internal tissue of a petal forms... | |
| Country life - 1850 - 610 pages
...air-passages in its substance, and of pores on its surface, enables the crude fluid sent from the root to be elaborated and digested until it becomes the...disintegration of the internal tissue of a petal forms pollen ; the folding inwards of a leaf is sufficient to constitute a pistil ; and, final!}', the gorging... | |
| Literature - 1864 - 764 pages
...same typical organ, the leaf, adapts it to the exercise of the various functions of vegetative life. "The contraction of a branch and its leaves forms...disintegration of the internal tissue of a petal forms pollen; the folding inwards of a leaf constitutes a pistil; and, finally, the gorging of the pistil... | |
| Harland Coultas - Trees - 1859 - 204 pages
...modification in the same typical organ, the leaf, adapts it to the exercise of the reproductive functions. " The contraction of a branch and its leaves forms a...disintegration of the internal tissue of a petal forms pollen ; the folding inwards of a leaf constitutes a pistil ; and, finally, the gorging of the pistil... | |
| Harland Coultas - Trees - 1863 - 200 pages
...modification in the same typical organ, the leaf, adapts it to the exercise of the reproductive functions. " The contraction of a branch and its leaves forms a...disintegration of the internal tissue of a petal forms pollen ; the folding inwards of a leaf constitutes a pistil; and, finally, the gorging of the pistil... | |
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