Peter Parley's Cyclopedia of Botany: Including Familiar Descriptions of Trees, Shrubs, And Plants
Peter Parley's Cyclopedia of Botany: Including Familiar Descriptions of Trees, Shrubs, And Plants
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860
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la3ta'txjh. Cow Partnep^ Hog- weed: leaves pinnate; leaflets pin- natifiid, cut, and serrate ; stem about four feet high, branched, furrowed, rough, with spreading hairs. Flow- ers in June, July. One of our largest umbelliferous plants. Grows about moist cultivated grounds. HIBISCUS. 16—7. H. palus'tris. Marsh HUnscus: stem herbaceous, shnple, erect, four or five feet high; leaves ovate, toothed, somewhat three-lobed, hoary, with down beneath ; pedun- cles long, axillary, or petioled. Flowers l...arge, showy, pale purple; August ; perennial. A large showy plant, found on the borders of some of our rivers. Its fibrous bark is said to be as strong as that of the hemp. HIERA'CIUM. Hawkweed. 19 — 1. Common calyx egg-shaped, imbricated, of numerous linear, very unequal scales; compound corolla of numerous, imbricated, uniform,, perfect, strap-shaped, abrupt, five- HIE 128 HIP toothed florets; filaments hair-like, ▼ery short; anthers united into a cylindrical tube, much shorter than the floret ; germen nearly egg-shap- ed ; style thread-shaped, as long as the stamens ; stigmas two, reflected ; seed egg-shaped or oblong, angular ; seed-down sessile, hair-like, uni- form ; receptacle convex, naked or nearly so, dotted.
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