A grammar of botany : containing an explanation of the system of Linnaeus, and the terms of botany, with botanical exercises, for the use of schools and students : illustrated by forty-five engravings : multum in parvo / by Robert John Thornton, M.D.

  • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A grammar of botany : containing an explanation of the system of Linnaeus, and the terms of botany, with botanical exercises, for the use of schools and students : illustrated by forty-five engravings : multum in parvo / by Robert John Thornton, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    :• mous, thyrsoid, corymbose, paniculate, umbel- late, cvmous, spadiceous ? (p. 79, 80, 81,82, 83, 84,05, 86.) 155. When are vcrticillate flowers sessile, pedunculate, terminal, axillary, roundish, globu- lar, conical, dimidiate or halved, leafy, naked ? (p. 79, 80.) 156. When are spicate flowers terminal, axil- lary, simple, compound, glomerate, ovate, ven- tricose or bellied, cylindrical, spiral, interrupted, ramose, articulate, leafy, comose ? (p. 80, 81.) 157. When are amentaceous flowers, globu- lar, ovate, cylindrical, filiform, scaly, naked ? 158. When are racemous flowers simple, com- pound, one-sided or unilateral, uniform, leafy, naked, erect, pendulous ? (p 82, 83.) 159. When are thyrsoid flowers ovate, oblong, leafy, naked? (p. 83.) 160. When are corymbose flowers, simple, compound ? (p. 84.) 161. When -are paniculate flowers pressed to- gether, one-sided, divaricate 1 (p. 84.) 162. When are umbellate flowers sessile, pe- dunculed, simple, compound, partial 1 (p. 84, 85) 163. When are involucred flowers, naked, globose, convex, flat, unequal ? (p. 85.) 104. When are cymose flowers sessile, trifid, quadrifid, tripartite, bractate, naked? (p. 86.) 165. How does the corymbus, cyme, and um- bel, differ from each other ? (p. 86.)