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... plants , prior to the appearance of organization , as in Protococcus nivalis , & c . It has been found by Brongniart , Henslow , & c . in the form of a thin homogeneous membrane , applied to the cuticle of the leaves of some plants ...
... plants , prior to the appearance of organization , as in Protococcus nivalis , & c . It has been found by Brongniart , Henslow , & c . in the form of a thin homogeneous membrane , applied to the cuticle of the leaves of some plants ...
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... plants : fibre itself being a form of membrane . But we find both the one and the other developed in many of the most imperfectly organized plants , such as Scleroderma and other fungi , and it is difficult to conceive how that can be a ...
... plants : fibre itself being a form of membrane . But we find both the one and the other developed in many of the most imperfectly organized plants , such as Scleroderma and other fungi , and it is difficult to conceive how that can be a ...
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... plants they are few and very small , and in Flowerless plants they are for the most part altogether absent ; the only exceptions being in Ferns and Lycopodiaceæ , orders occupying a sort of middle place between flowering and flowerless ...
... plants they are few and very small , and in Flowerless plants they are for the most part altogether absent ; the only exceptions being in Ferns and Lycopodiaceæ , orders occupying a sort of middle place between flowering and flowerless ...
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... plants in which true spiral vessels are not often found ; and it is therefore probable that their functions are different . They vary between the the of an inch in diameter . and All the forms of the duct seem reducible to the following ...
... plants in which true spiral vessels are not often found ; and it is therefore probable that their functions are different . They vary between the the of an inch in diameter . and All the forms of the duct seem reducible to the following ...
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... plants , and in some others , they are wholly wanting . They are largest in plants having milky juice , and smallest in those whose juice is transparent . Plate II . contains representations of several laticiferous vessels . Fig . 13 ...
... plants , and in some others , they are wholly wanting . They are largest in plants having milky juice , and smallest in those whose juice is transparent . Plate II . contains representations of several laticiferous vessels . Fig . 13 ...
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Adolphe Brongniart albumen anther apex appears axis bark base become body botanists Botany bracts branches buds bundles called calyx Cand Candolle carbonic acid carpels cause cavity cells cellular tissue centre chalaza character cloth colour common consists containing corolla cotyledons cyclosis developement dicotyledons direction disk Dutrochet Edition embryo epidermis exist extremity fibres filament fleshy flowers fluid foramen fruit glands grains green growing hairs hilum inches integument kind latex layers leaf leaflets leaves light Linnæus lobes Loudon margin matter medullary rays membrane Mirbel monocotyledons nature nitrogen nucleus observed organs ovarium ovary ovule oxygen parenchyma pericarp petals petiole pistil pith placenta plants Plate plumula pollen pollen tube produced quantity radicle Raphides remarked roots round seeds separate side species specimens spiral vessels stamens stem stigma stomates structure substance surface term terminating tion tree tubes vascular vegetable veins wood woody tissue yellow