Letters on the Elements of Botany: Addressed to a LadyB. White and son, 1787 - 500 páginas |
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Página 23 - The same parts, as already observed, are found in the flowers of most other plants, but in different proportion, situation, and number. By the analogy of these parts, and their different combinations, the families of the vegetable kingdom are determined ; and these analogies are connected with others in those parts of the plant which seem to have no relation to them. For instance, this number of six stamens, sometimes only three, * For a figure of these parts as composing a liliaceous flower, see...
Página 62 - You perceive, neverthelefs, that all thefe little flowers are preffed, and inclofed in a calyx, which is common to them all, and which is that of the daify. In confidering then the whole daify as one flower, we give it a very fignificant name, when we call it a compound flower.
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