item: #1 of 65 id: 10118 author: Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. (Thomas Firminger) title: The Folk-lore of Plants date: None words: 78788 flesch: 66 summary: Many plant names have animal prefixes, these indeed forming a very extensive list. A species of wood fungus found about the roots of old trees is designated fairy-butter, because after rain, and when in a certain degree of putrefaction, it is reduced to a consistency which, together with its colour, makes it not unlike butter. keywords: account; allusion; apple; ash; belief; blood; branches; character; children; common; connection; corn; countries; country; cut; day; days; dead; death; devil; dream; fairy; fern; fire; flowers; folk; following; form; fruit; germany; good; grass; green; hand; head; herb; history; house; idea; john; kind; lady; leaf; leaves; legends; life; lightning; lore; love; man; men; mystic; mythology; names; night; notion; oak; origin; person; place; plants; red; root; rose; seed; species; spring; superstition; time; tradition; tree; use; virtues; water; way; weather; white; witches; wood; world; worship; wort; year cache: 10118.txt plain text: 10118.txt item: #2 of 65 id: 10726 author: Moore, Jane Newell title: Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf For the Use of Teachers, or Mothers Studying with Their Children date: None words: 27522 flesch: 81 summary: The buds that spring from the inner angle of the leaf with the stem are _axillary_ buds; those that crown the stems are _terminal_. If it is winter, and flowers or growing plants cannot be had, give each a branch of a tree or shrub; this branch may be two feet long. keywords: air; arrangement; botany; branch; branches; buds; flower; food; footnote; glass; glory; growth; leaf; leaves; morning; plants; pupils; roots; scales; stem; tree; water cache: 10726.txt plain text: 10726.txt item: #3 of 65 id: 11365 author: Tilton, George Henry title: The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada date: None words: 25385 flesch: 76 summary: [Illustration: Massachusetts Fern. _Aspidium simulatum_ 1. [Illustration: Sori of Marginal Shield Fern] (1) MARGINAL SHIELD FERN, EVERGREEN WOOD FERN _Aspídium marginàle_. keywords: aspidium; asplenium; base; botrychium; co.; dots; fern; form; fronds; fruit; grape fern; green; illustration; inches; indusium; lady fern; lanceolate; margin; new; oblong; ovate; pinnate; pinnules; pinnæ; segments; shield fern; slender; sori; species; spleenwort; sporangia; sterile; stipes; var; veins; woodsia cache: 11365.txt plain text: 11365.txt item: #4 of 65 id: 11723 author: Church, Ella Rodman title: Among the Trees at Elmridge date: None words: 65972 flesch: 80 summary: Camphor is found in many trees and shrubs, continued her governess, but in all others except the camphor tree of Sumatra and Borneo it has to be distilled from the wood and roots. But the mischievous little animal also barks the boughs and gnaws off the tops of the leading shoots, so that many trees are injured and defaced by his depredations. keywords: apple; bark; birch; blossoms; branches; chapter; children; clara; color; country; dear; edith; family; feet; flowers; foliage; fruit; good; governess; green; ground; harson; illustration; leaves; light; look; malcolm; maple; miss; nuts; oak; olive; palm; people; pine; red; reply; small; species; things; thought; time; tree; trunk; way; white; willow; wood cache: 11723.txt plain text: 11723.txt item: #5 of 65 id: 12286 author: Richardson, David Lester title: Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden date: None words: 105077 flesch: 72 summary: The Fuchsia is decidedly the most _graceful_ flower in the world. Perhaps some foreign visitor on reading the inscription may be surprized at his own ignorance when he learns that it is not the author of _Macbeth_ and _ keywords: art; beauty; bed; blossoms; blue; branches; care; close; cold; common; country; cut; day; delight; description; earth; england; english; eye; fair; favorite; feet; fine; flower; following; form; fragrance; friend; garden; gardener; gardening; genius; god; golden; good; grass; great; green; ground; half; hand; heart; height; home; hot; house; human; hyacinth; india; kind; lady; landscape; late; leaf; leaves; life; light; lines; london; look; lord; love; man; men; milton; mind; morning; native; nature; new; o'er; paradise; people; petals; place; plant; pleasure; poet; pope; present; pride; purple; rains; red; root; rose; scene; season; seed; shade; shakespeare; sir; small; soil; species; summer; sun; sweet; taste; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; trees; varieties; variety; water; way; white; william; world; year; yellow; young cache: 12286.txt plain text: 12286.txt item: #6 of 65 id: 12363 author: Salisbury, William title: The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Practical Botany, and the Uses of Plants. Either Growing Wild in Great Britain, or Cultivated for the Puroses of Agriculture, Medicine, Rural Oeconomy, or the Arts date: None words: 82485 flesch: 74 summary: c.m. read common garden mould. 13 -------- brachiata Dwarf ditto c.m. 14 -------- keywords: ---v; account; acre; acrid; annual; aromatic; attention; b.l; b.m; bark; berries; black; blue; cases; cattle; colour; common; country; crop; cultivation; culture; day; disorders; ditto c.m; ditto l.; ditto l.b; ditto l.s; dose; dwarf; early; effects; extract; fine; fit; flavour; flowers; following; food; form; fruit; garden; good; grass; grasses; great; green; ground; grows; growth; herb; infusion; juice; kind; l. e.; land; leaved; london; making; meadow; medicine; mode; months; nature; observations; parts; people; perennial; persons; places; plant; pounds; powder; practice; present; principal; produce; purple; purpose; qualities; quantity; red; roots; rose; season; seeds; smell; soil; sown; species; spring; state; stomach; sugar; sweet; taste; time; tree; tree c.m; use; varieties; variety; vegetable; virtues; water; way; white; wild; willow; winter; wood; years; yellow; young cache: 12363.txt plain text: 12363.txt item: #7 of 65 id: 13347 author: Cooke, Arthur O. (Arthur Owens) title: Wildflowers of the Farm date: None words: 14340 flesch: 90 summary: CHAPTER VI IN ASHMEAD There are many other flowers besides the Clover in Ashmead to-day, and this afternoon we will look at some that grow among the grass. This would make them grow bushy and with many flowers, as we see them in Mrs. Hammond's garden beds. keywords: blossom; clover; field; flowers; grass; grow; leaves; plant; seed; stem; white cache: 13347.txt plain text: 13347.txt item: #8 of 65 id: 13357 author: Watson, William title: Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation date: None words: 65435 flesch: 76 summary: Large plants of Pereskia may be trained over pillars in conservatories and afterwards grafted with Epiphyllums; in fact, there are many ways in which these plants may be effectively employed in gardens. SPECIES. The spines are remarkable for their size and strength, those on large plants being 4 in. keywords: base; branches; cactuses; cereus; colour; cultivation; diameter; echinocactus; fig; flowers; form; green; greenhouse; growing; high; house; illustration; joints; kew; kinds; length; like; mamillaria; mexico; native; opuntia; petals; plant; red; ridges; roots; size; soil; species; spines; stamens; stem; summer; treatment; tubercles; white; winter; yellow cache: 13357.txt plain text: 13357.txt item: #9 of 65 id: 15088 author: Ruskin, John title: Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew date: None words: 35122 flesch: 70 summary: And first--we have to note of it, that the plan of the blossom in all the kinds is the same; an irregular quatre-foil: and irregular quatrefoils are of extreme rarity in flower form. My Viola aurea is the Rock-violet of the Alps; one of the bravest, brightest, and dearest of little flowers. keywords: air; blossom; blue; chapter; close; colour; common; english; flora; flower; form; ground; kind; leaf; leaves; life; like; modern; note; number; pansy; petals; pith; plant; power; present; purple; root; species; stalk; stem; things; time; upper; use; veronica; viola; violet; way; white; wood; word; work; year cache: 15088.txt plain text: 15088.txt item: #10 of 65 id: 16116 author: Levison, Jacob Joshua title: Studies of Trees date: None words: 42372 flesch: 76 summary: Inspiring them to _love_ trees generally means more than teaching them to _know_ trees. Possible confusion with other trees of similar appearance is prevented as far as possible through comparisons with trees of like form or habit. keywords: bark; black; branches; brown; characters; color; disease; elm; enemies; fig; forest; form; ground; grow; hickory; illustration; insects; leaf; leaves; light; maple; oak; pine; planting; pores; red; size; soil; species; states; trees; trunk; value; water; white; wood cache: 16116.txt plain text: 16116.txt item: #11 of 65 id: 17198 author: Curtis, William title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 01 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed date: None words: 9665 flesch: 79 summary: IRIS _variegata_ corollis barbatis, caule subfolioso longitudine foliorum multifloro. _s._ 1. _t._ 4. _f._ 4. keywords: character; class; common; flowers; foliis; gardens; illustration; lin; linnæus; miller; monogynia.~; order; pin; plants; roots; seeds; species; synonyms; syst; vegetab cache: 17198.txt plain text: 17198.txt item: #12 of 65 id: 17531 author: Curtis, William title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 02 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed date: None words: 9597 flesch: 77 summary: [Illustration: 41] There being no English name to this plant, we have adopted that of _Slipper-wort_, in imitation of _Calceolaria_, which is derived from _Calceolus_, a little shoe or slipper. It grows in shady situations, in a light soil, and requires the same treatment as the _Dodecatheon_ and _round-leav'd Cyclamen_. keywords: character; class; flowers; foliis; gardens; illustration; leaves; linnæus; miller; native; order; plant; roots; species; synonyms; syst; time; vegetab cache: 17531.txt plain text: 17531.txt item: #13 of 65 id: 17672 author: Curtis, William title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 03 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed date: None words: 8816 flesch: 76 summary: _Legumen_ subrotundum, tectum. _ keywords: calyx; character; class; flowers; foliis; gardens; illustration; lin; miller; native; order; petala; plant; seeds; species; summer; synonyms; syst; vegetab cache: 17672.txt plain text: 17672.txt item: #14 of 65 id: 17979 author: Curtis, William title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 04 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed date: None words: 10282 flesch: 78 summary: [Illustration: No 122] The _Hyacinthus racemosus_ and _botryoides_ are both cultivated in gardens, but the former here figured is by far the most common; _racemosus_ and _botryoides_, though different words, are expressive of the same meaning, the former being derived from the Latin term _racemus_, the latter from the Greek one By _WILLIAM CURTIS_, Author of the FLORA LONDINENSIS. keywords: character; class; figure; flowers; foliis; garden; hort; illustration; kew; leaves; linn; miller; murr; native; order; plant; roots; seeds; species; spring; synonyms; syst cache: 17979.txt plain text: 17979.txt item: #15 of 65 id: 18754 author: Fink, Bruce title: Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V date: None words: 10636 flesch: 74 summary: _Peltigera_ furnishes seven species for Ohio, while only one species of _Nephroma_ has thus far been found in the State. with two-celled, hyaline spores (Fig. 4); _Bilimbia_ with several-celled, hyaline spores, not much narrowed (Fig. 5); and _Bacidia_ with several-celled, hyaline, acicular spores (Fig. 6). keywords: apothecia; brown; exciple; fig; hymenium; hypothecium; mic; minute; pale; spores; thallus cache: 18754.txt plain text: 18754.txt item: #16 of 65 id: 19123 author: Curtis, William title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 05 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed date: None words: 9946 flesch: 79 summary: ZINNIA _multiflora_ floribus pedunculatis. By _WILLIAM CURTIS_, Author of the FLORA LONDINENSIS. keywords: blossoms; character; class; flowers; foliis; garden; hort; illustration; kew; linn; murr; native; order; plant; species; synonyms; syst; vegetab cache: 19123.txt plain text: 19123.txt item: #17 of 65 id: 19352 author: Fernie, William Thomas title: Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure date: None words: 191371 flesch: 73 summary: _see_ Dock, _page_ 159. ONION (_see_ Garlic, _page 209_). keywords: acid; apple; away; bark; bearing; bears; berries; bitter; black; blood; blue; boiling; boiling water; bread; cabbage; cases; century; chamomile; chemical; children; chronic; cold; colour; common; cordial; cough; country; cure; cut; day; days; decoction; disease; dock; dose; drink; drops; dry; eaten; effects; elder; england; english; extract; eyes; fact; fern; flavour; flowers; food; form; fragrant; france; french; fresh; fruit; garden; garlic; gerard; germany; golden; good; grains; grass; great; green; ground; growth; gum; hair; half; head; headache; healing; heart; hedge; herb; herbal; honey; horse; infusion; ivy; john; juice; latin; lavender; leaf; leaves; lemon; lettuce; lime; little; liver; making; man; marigold; marsh; matter; medicinal; medicine; milk; moss; mouth; mustard; names; near; nettle; night; odour; oil; ointment; orange; order; ounce; pain; parsley; parts; pepper; peppermint; persons; petals; pint; places; plant; pliny; possesses; potato; poultice; powder; principle; properties; purple; purpose; quantity; radish; raw; reason; red; remedy; resin; rheumatism; romans; root; rose; rosemary; rue; saffron; sea; seeds; service; simple; skin; sleep; small; sore; sort; spirit; spring; starch; stems; stomach; sugar; syrup; tannin; taste; tea; teaspoonful; term; thought; throat; thyme; time; tincture; title; tongue; tree; tribe; turpentine; urine; use; variety; vegetable; vinegar; virtues; water; weed; white; wild; wine; women; wood; word; wort; wounds; year; yellow cache: 19352.txt plain text: 19352.txt item: #18 of 65 id: 20421 author: Ruskin, John title: Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew date: None words: 62137 flesch: 70 summary: A ruby is not made bright to scatter round it child-rubies; nor a flower, but in collateral and added honour, to give birth to other flowers. Leaving, however, for the present, the root unthought of, and contenting myself with Dr. Lindley's characteristics, I shall place, at the head of the whole group, our common European wild poppy, Papaver Rhoeas, and, with this, arrange the nine following other flowers thus,--opposite. keywords: air; blossom; book; botany; branches; chapter; colour; day; earth; english; fig; flower; form; fruit; general; good; grass; greek; ground; group; growing; human; husk; idea; kind; latin; leaf; leaves; life; light; lily; little; look; mind; moss; names; nomenclature; ones; order; parts; petals; place; plant; poppy; power; present; root; rose; seed; spring; stalk; stem; substance; thing; thought; time; tree; use; water; way; wild; wood; word; work cache: 20421.txt plain text: 20421.txt item: #19 of 65 id: 20467 author: Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason) title: Handbook of the Trees of New England date: None words: 56406 flesch: 73 summary: Pure _fragilis_ and pure _alba_ are perfectly distinct plants, _fragilis_ occasional, locally rather common, and _alba_ rather rare within the limits of the United States. Norway maple_ 146 rubrum, L. _ keywords: acute; ash; base; beneath; branch; branches; brown; buds; calyx; dark; diameter; england; feet; fertile; flowers; foliage; gray; green; habitat; head; horticultural; inches; leaf; leaves; long; new; oak; oblong; ovate; plate; red; reddish; rounded; scales; season; shoots; slender; smooth; south; stamens; sterile; trees; trunk; west; white; winter; yellow cache: 20467.txt plain text: 20467.txt item: #20 of 65 id: 21761 author: Lloyd, C. G. (Curtis Gates) title: Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camillea, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces date: None words: 5040 flesch: 73 summary: Spores 12-15×18-24, dark, smooth, curved, agreeing with Xylaria spores. Patouillard claims that Hypoxylon melanaspis has same spores and structure, and is the pulvinate form of Camillea Leprieurii. keywords: camillea; fig; illustration; montagne; perithecia; species; spores; xylaria cache: 21761.txt plain text: 21761.txt item: #21 of 65 id: 21843 author: Curtis, William title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 06 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed date: None words: 11473 flesch: 78 summary: CORONILLA _valentina_ fruticosa, foliolis subnovenis, stipulis suborbiculatis. IRIS _sambucina_ barbata, foliis ensiformibus glabris erectis brevioribus scapo multifloro, petalis deflexis planis. keywords: blossoms; cal; character; class; cor; flowers; foliis; hort; illustration; kew; leaves; linn; murr; narcissus; native; order; plant; seeds; species; synonyms; syst cache: 21843.txt plain text: 21843.txt item: #22 of 65 id: 23354 author: Masters, Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) title: Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants date: None words: 150033 flesch: 66 summary: Cassini considered that the spur of _Linaria_ was developed from the lower petal rather than from the upper ones, because there is more room on the side of the flower farthest from the stem than on the opposite side. Such a partial change from a floriferous to a foliiferous branch may be seen in a specimen of _Sambucus nigra_ in the Smithian herbarium in the Linnean Society, where the ultimate branches of the cyme bear small leaves. keywords: -of; acad; adhesion; adventitious; ann; anther; appearance; arrangement; axis; base; bearing; bot; bracts; branches; buds; bull; calyx; carpels; cases; central; change; chapter; circumstances; cohesion; common; condition; corolla; development; direction; ditto; europe; fig; floral; flower; following; form; formation; fruit; growth; head; iii; illustration; inflorescence; inner; instances; irregular; kind; leaf; leaves; linn; lobes; malformation; margins; mentions; moquin; morren; multiplication; nature; new; number; occurrence; organs; outer; ovary; ovules; parts; peloria; perfect; perianth; petaloid; petals; pistil; place; plants; point; pollen; portion; position; present; production; prolification; question; regular; result; roots; segments; sepals; series; single; size; soc; species; spiral; stalk; stamens; stem; structure; subject; suppression; surface; tab; term; time; tube; union; united; upper; vol; vulgaris; whorl cache: 23354.txt plain text: 23354.txt item: #23 of 65 id: 23579 author: Curtis, William title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 07 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed date: None words: 11563 flesch: 80 summary: _ of PARKINSON, since those publications many new and perfectly double varieties have been introduced, as The _double white_, rarely met with. FUMARIA _cava_, caule simplici, bracteis longitudine florum integris, radice cava. keywords: ait; blossoms; character; class; colour; flowers; foliis; height; illustration; kew; linn; murr; native; order; plant; seeds; species; synonyms; syst; vegetab cache: 23579.txt plain text: 23579.txt item: #24 of 65 id: 26158 author: Beal, W. J. (William James) title: Seed Dispersal date: None words: 19838 flesch: 81 summary: Other seeds of this nature are those of wild ginger, celandine, cyclamen, violet, periwinkle, some euphorbias, bellwort, trillium, prickly poppy, dutchman's breeches, squirrel-corn, several species of Corydalis, Seneca snakeroot, and other species of milkworts. Many seeds and fruits, in some cases parts, and even the whole, of plants seem to be purposely designed for this mode of travel, while an innumerable host of others occasionally make use of it, although it may seem from their structure and place of growth that they were made especially to be transported by the wind or by some animal. keywords: animals; berries; birds; branches; feet; fig; fruits; good; grass; ground; half; illustration; leaves; new; number; nuts; place; plants; pods; roots; seeds; time; tree; water; way; wind cache: 26158.txt plain text: 26158.txt item: #25 of 65 id: 26492 author: Atkinson, George Francis title: Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. date: None words: 117380 flesch: 76 summary: It is a much stouter plant than _L. procera_, the pileus usually depressed, much more coarsely scaly, and usually grows in dense clusters, while _L. procera_ usually occurs singly or scattered, is more slender, often umbonate. The =pileus= is convex, thick, soft and somewhat spongy, especially in large plants. keywords: -10; = =; = spores=; age; amanita; annulus; autumn; base; beds; brown; cap; cases; center; color; convex; copyright; dark; figure; flesh; form; fungi; genus; gills; ground; grow; herbarium; illustration; ithaca; manure; margin; material; mushrooms; mycelium; number; pileus; plant; plate; portion; present; reddish; scales; september; size; smooth; soil; somewhat; spawn; species; specimens; stem; surface; thickness; threads; time; varies; veil; viscid; volva; way; white; whitish; woods; yellow; yellowish cache: 26492.txt plain text: 26492.txt item: #26 of 65 id: 26798 author: Shaw, George Russell title: The Genus Pinus date: None words: 32050 flesch: 73 summary: 72 shows the wingless seed of P. cembroides; fig. Occasionally a peculiar bud, like that of P. palustris, may be recognized at once. keywords: apophyses; bark; brown; cells; characters; cone; conelet; ducts; fascicle; fig; form; group; hypoderm; leaf; leaves; long; multinodal; northern; nut; ovate; persistent; pines; plate; resin; scales; section; seed; shoots; small; species; spring; tree; umbo; wing; wood cache: 26798.txt plain text: 26798.txt item: #27 of 65 id: 28764 author: McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace) title: Getting Acquainted with the Trees date: None words: 36897 flesch: 67 summary: Other great trees are notable for the general effect of strength or massiveness, individual branches departing much from the average line of the whole structure; but the American elm is regular in all its parts, as well as of general stateliness. I was told that it was wrong to pluck for any purpose the flowers of fruit trees, because the possible fruitage might thereby be reduced. keywords: american; apple; bark; beauty; bloom; book; branches; chestnut; color; common; crab; day; elm; family; flowers; foliage; forest; form; fruit; good; green; growth; home; illustration; leaves; life; man; maple; nature; new; oak; pine; poplar; red; species; spring; sweet; sycamore; time; tree; way; white; willow; winter; years; yellow cache: 28764.txt plain text: 28764.txt item: #28 of 65 id: 29086 author: Hard, Miron Elisha title: The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth date: None words: 126343 flesch: 78 summary: Velutipes is from _velutum_, velvet; _pes_, foot. Ceraceus is from _cera_, wax. keywords: adnate; amanita; august; base; black; boletus; broad; brown; brownish; cap; caps; center; chillicothe; close; color; convex; dark; decurrent; dry; edible; entire; figure; firm; flesh; form; free; genus; gills; good; gray; ground; half; hollow; hymenium; illustration; inches; july; lloyd; long; margin; means; moist; mushrooms; near; october; ohio; pale; peck; peridium; photo; pileus; plant; polyporus; red; reddish; ring; scales; september; short; size; slender; smooth; soft; species; specimens; spores; stem; striate; surface; tapering; taste; thick; tricholoma; veil; viscid; volva; white; whitish; woods; yellow; yellowish; young cache: 29086.txt plain text: 29086.txt item: #29 of 65 id: 29534 author: Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price) title: The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio date: None words: 35917 flesch: 68 summary: _chrysopus_ Lev, which I am unable to keep separate; the variation in size of the spores is not in correspondence with the variations in color of the sporangia. The specimens of _Physarum scyphoides_ C. & B. which I have seen appear to be a small form of this species. keywords: brown; capillitium; columella; diameter; globose; hypothallus; lime; membrane; mic; minutely; slender; small; species; sporangium; spores; spores globose; stipe; thin; threads; tubules; violaceous; wall; white; yellow cache: 29534.txt plain text: 29534.txt item: #30 of 65 id: 29724 author: Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig) title: Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination date: None words: 56794 flesch: 85 summary: (=R.=) =R.= Leaf-buds long and slender; fruit a small prickly bur with two triangular, horny-coated nuts; large trees 90. =T.= End of leaf as though cut off; sides with one large lobe; margin entire; large tree 2. _Liriodendron. keywords: a.=; acute; alternate; bark; base; beneath; branches; buds; clusters; cones; dark; entire; fig; flowers; fruit; genus =; green; heart; high; illustration; lanceolate; leaf; leaflets; leaves; lobed; oblong; order; ovate; red; scales; seeds; serrate; shrubs; slender; smooth; south; species; spreading; stem; thick; tree; twigs; white; wild; wood; young cache: 29724.txt plain text: 29724.txt item: #31 of 65 id: 29951 author: Various title: The Mayflower, January, 1905 date: None words: 817 flesch: 71 summary: WE WILL SEND to every sick and ailing person who writes us, mentioning THE MAYFLOWER, a full-sized =One Dollar= package of =VITAE-ORE=, by mail, =postpaid=, sufficient for one month's treatment, to be paid for within one month's time after receipt, if the receiver can truthfully say that its use has done him or her more good than all the drugs and dopes of quacks or good doctors or patent medicines he or she has ever used. =Send for a $1. package at our risk.= keywords: vitae cache: 29951.txt plain text: 29951.txt item: #32 of 65 id: 30181 author: Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) title: Fungi: Their Nature and Uses date: None words: 107623 flesch: 66 summary: Hoffmann has also described[F] both these organs under the names of _pollinaria_ and _spermatia_, but does not appear to recognize in them the sexual elements which those names would indicate; whilst de Seynes suggests that the cystidia are only organs returned to vegetative functions by a sort of hypertrophy of the basidia.[G] This view seems to be supported by the fact that, in the section _ Peziza coccinea_, the bright scarlet of _Peziza rutilans_, the snowy whiteness of _Peziza nivea_, the delicate yellow of _Peziza theleboloides_, or the velvety brown of _Peziza repanda_. keywords: agaricus; appearance; asci; bary; bearing; berkeley; black; bodies; branches; case; cells; colour; conditions; conidia; cooke; countries; dead; des; development; europe; fact; fig; filaments; form; fruit; fungi; fungus; genera; genus; germination; globose; good; group; growth; hymenium; illustration; instances; kind; leaves; length; light; manner; means; membrane; minute; mould; mucor; mushroom; mycelium; nature; new; number; order; organs; parts; peziza; place; plants; present; protoplasm; pseudospores; puccinia; size; species; specimens; sphæria; spores; sporidia; states; stem; structure; subject; substance; surface; threads; time; trees; tulasne; united; vol; water; white; wood; years; æcidium cache: 30181.txt plain text: 30181.txt item: #33 of 65 id: 30734 author: None title: Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous date: None words: 4361 flesch: 79 summary: No country is richer in mushroom food than America. Additional plates, displaying other varieties of esculent mushrooms, may possibly be issued in the future. keywords: mushrooms; pileus; plate; stem; taste; white cache: 30734.txt plain text: 30734.txt item: #34 of 65 id: 31098 author: Macbride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) title: The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species date: None words: 104444 flesch: 73 summary: _trechispora_ (Berk.), _ The present author, unwilling to change his colleague's preference in this case, nevertheless begs to suggest that such a binomial as _P. listeri_ would probably at once make future history of the species less eventful, and honor the memory of England's latest and most distinguished student of the group he loved. keywords: 2nd; badhamia; berk; black; brown; bull; calcareous; capillitium; color; columella; common; dark; delicate; description; diderma; didymium; distinct; fig; figs; form; free; fries; genus; globose; gregarious; hypothallus; iii; iowa; large; light; like; lime; list; lister; macbr; mass; mon; morg; mycetozoa; net; new; pale; peck; peridium; pers; physarum; plasmodium; plate; present; rex; rost; rostafinski; scattered; schw; sessile; short; simple; slender; smooth; species; specimens; sporangia; spores; stemonitis; stipe; stipitate; thin; threads; trichia; wall; white; yellow cache: 31098.txt plain text: 31098.txt item: #35 of 65 id: 32050 author: Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan) title: The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State date: None words: 64891 flesch: 81 summary: One species in Michigan, a marsh plant with heart-shape leaves and slender racemes of white flowers =Lizard's Tail, Saururus cernuus.= SALICACEAE, the Willow Family Trees or shrubs, with dioecious flowers in catkins. 1a. Tall shrub, with leaves broadest below or near the middle (early summer) =Wahoo, Evonymus atropurpureus.= STAPHYLEACEAE, the Bladder Nut Family Shrubs with opposite trifoliate leaves and small axillary clusters of white flowers in spring; sepals, petals, and stamens each 5; ovary 3-celled, ripening into a large inflated 3-celled pod. keywords: --2; --3; --4; --5; = aster; = bedstraw; = ericaceae=; = leguminosae=; = rosaceae=; = sunflower; = water; = willow; = wood; basal; base =; beneath; black; blue; bracts; branches; calyx; clusters; compound; compound leaves; corolla; cress; entire; erect; family; flowers; foliage; fruit; glabrous; grass; greenish; heads; herbs; high; involucre; lanceolate; leaf; leaflets; leaves; leaves sessile; linear; lobed; long; middle; oblong; ovary; ovate; petals; pink; plants; principal; pubescent; purple; racemes; red; regular; sepals; serrate; sessile; shape; short; shrubs; slender; small; smooth; solitary; species; spikes; spreading; spring; stamens; stem; summer; tall; teeth; terminal; toothed; united; violet; white; wild; yellow cache: 32050.txt plain text: 32050.txt item: #36 of 65 id: 32982 author: Taylor, Thomas title: Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous date: None words: 52887 flesch: 74 summary: L. _vellereus_ and L. _piperatus_ are very common in fir woods. They are free, _i. e._, separable, in the sole genus _Fistulina_. keywords: acrid; agaricus; amanita; base; brown; cap; color; cooke; edible; fig; flavor; fleshy; form; free; fries; fungi; genera; genus; gills; good; group; growing; inches; lactarius; lepiota; margin; milk; mushroom; number; page; peck; plant; plate; reddish; ring; saccardo; smooth; spawn; species; specimens; spores; states; stem; substance; surface; variety; veil; volva; water; white; whitish; woods; yellow; yellowish cache: 32982.txt plain text: 32982.txt item: #37 of 65 id: 33013 author: Massee, George title: European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae date: None words: 108358 flesch: 82 summary: prunuloides_, but sp. ochre. P. plane, orbicular, subgibbous, even, granular; g. adnexed, blackish; s. reddish, base subtuberous; sp. yellowish, 4-6 × 2-3. =neglecta=, Mass. keywords: adnexed; apex; b. p.; base; broad; brown; brownish; c. p.; cinnamon; colour; cort; crowded; differs; disc; distant; dry; edge; equal; fibrillose; flesh; free; fuscous; g. =; g. adnate; g. broad; g. decur; g. edge; g. flesh; g. free; g. grey; g. greyish; g. pale; g. pallid; g. sinuato; g. subdecur; g. white; g. whitish; g. yellow; g. yellowish; gills; grey; narrow; ochre; p. campan; p. conical; p. conico; p. convex; p. depr; p. exp; p. fleshy; p. hemispher; p. obtuse; p. plane; p. thin; p. umb; p. umbil; paler; pallid; pileus; q. p.; reddish; ring; rooting; rusty; s. colour; s. fistulose; s. glabrous; s. hollow; s. p.; s. pallid; s. slender; s. solid; s. striate; s. wavy; scales; shining; silky; smell; squamulose; stem; striate; tan; tawny; tinged; umber; var; violet; viscid; wavy; whitish; yellow cache: 33013.txt plain text: 33013.txt item: #38 of 65 id: 33443 author: Muir, John title: Cruise of the Revenue-Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N.W. Arctic Ocean in 1881: Botanical Notes Notes and Memoranda: Medical and Anthropological; Botanical; Ornithological. date: None words: 4047 flesch: 67 summary: Chrysosplenium alternifolium, L. Saxifraga cernua, L. stellaris, L. var. cornosa. The bottoms of the glacial valleys were in many places covered with tall grasses and carices evenly planted and forming meadows of considerable size, while the drier portions and the sloping grounds about them were enlivened with gay highly-colored flowers from an inch to nearly two feet in height--_Aconitum Napellus_, L. var. keywords: alpina; arctic; hook; island; l. var; notes; plants; saxifraga; species; valleys; var; willd cache: 33443.txt plain text: 33443.txt item: #39 of 65 id: 34380 author: Salt, Henry S. title: The Call of the Wildflower date: None words: 42310 flesch: 62 summary: Nothing is commoner, in Spring, than to see piles of freshly gathered hyacinths or cowslips abandoned by the roadside; and many other flowers share the same fate, including, as I have noticed, the beautiful green-winged meadow orchis. There are many other flowers that might claim a place in this chapter, such as the sundews and the bladderworts; the mimulus and ground pine; the samphire and sea-rocket; the mullein and the teazle; and not least, the herb Paris, with that large quadruple love-knot into which its leaves are fashioned. keywords: alpine; beauty; blue; botanist; chalk; common; day; days; district; downs; english; eye; flora; flowers; foot; footnote; garden; good; great; green; ground; hills; leaves; limestone; lover; man; marsh; mountain; native; nature; number; orchis; pink; place; plants; purple; rock; rose; saw; saxifrage; sea; spring; summer; sussex; time; water; white; wild; wildflowers; wort; years; yellow cache: 34380.txt plain text: 34380.txt item: #40 of 65 id: 34510 author: Syme, William Anderson title: Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant (Rhus Toxicodendron) date: None words: 12667 flesch: 63 summary: The oxidizing power of permanganate, as is well known, is greater in acid solution than in alkaline, five atoms of oxygen being available in the former and three in the latter, according to these equations: 2 KMnO_{4} + 3 H_{2}SO_{4} = K_{2}SO_{4} + 2 MnSO_{4} + 3 H_{2}O + 5 O. 2 KMnO_{4} + H_{2}O = 2 MnO_{2} + 2 KOH + He obtained an acid which investigation showed to be somewhat like formic acid, more like acetic acid, but having some reactions different from both. keywords: acetate; acid; alcohol; color; ether; filtrate; lead; plant; poison; portion; precipitate; solution; substance; tar; water cache: 34510.txt plain text: 34510.txt item: #41 of 65 id: 34740 author: Step, Edward title: Wayside and Woodland Trees: A pocket guide to the British sylva date: None words: 47833 flesch: 78 summary: The catkins of the Plane take the form of balls, in which male _or_ female flowers are pressed together; and the fruits, instead of being winged samaras, are the rough balls that so closely resemble an old-fashioned form of button, that the tree is known in some parts of the United States as the Button-wood. _nana_ is confined to the mountains of the north of our islands, and ascends to 2700 feet, which is 300 feet higher than is recorded of the type. keywords: ash; bark; base; beech; black; bole; branches; brown; chestnut; country; feet; female; fine; flowers; form; fruit; green; growth; half; height; illustration; inches; leaf; leaves; native; oak; pine; plates; poplar; scales; seeds; slender; smooth; species; stamens; summer; timber; tree; trunk; white; willow; winter; wood; years; yew cache: 34740.txt plain text: 34740.txt item: #42 of 65 id: 37119 author: Woodward, B. B. (Bernard Bolingbroke) title: Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils date: None words: 30233 flesch: 74 summary: The next bed in order is a light brownish band of sandy clay that splits along its layers into thin pieces or _laminæ_, whence we may describe it as a sandy, _laminated_ clay. There is one thin limestone band in the Marlstone composed entirely of the shells of _Ammonites planicostatus_. keywords: ----------+ |; = =; algæ; beds; britain; british; clay; colour; fathoms; feet; fig; form; fossils; genus; green; group; illustration; india; limestone; mollusca; number; order; paper; plants; red; rocks; sand; sea; seas; shells; specimens; surface; water; way; weeds; world; | +; | generic; | o; | species; | | cache: 37119.txt plain text: 37119.txt item: #43 of 65 id: 37646 author: Nuuttila, E. E. title: Forest Trees of Illinois: How to Know Them date: None words: 21607 flesch: 82 summary: The _bark_ differs from that of the black walnut in being light gray on branches and on the trunk of small trees, becoming darker on large trees. Britton THE wild crab apple, or prairie crab, is found throughout Illinois forming small trees 20 to 30 feet high with trunks from 6 to 12 inches in diameter. keywords: bark; black; brown; dark; diameter; feet; flowers; fruit; green; half; illinois; illustration; inches; leaf; leaves; light; oak; red; size; state; tree; white; wood; yellow cache: 37646.txt plain text: 37646.txt item: #44 of 65 id: 37717 author: Rogers, Julia Ellen title: Trees Worth Knowing date: None words: 80851 flesch: 76 summary: Fence wires stapled to growing trees are not spread apart nor carried upward, though the trees may serve as posts for years, and the growth in diameter may swallow up staple and wire in a short time. The exactions of city life limit the number of tree species that will do well. keywords: american; ash; autumn; bark; black; blue; branches; brown; buds; california; chestnut; clusters; coast; color; cones; dark; eastern; elm; european; family; feet; flowers; foliage; forests; form; fruit; genus; green; ground; growth; head; height; illustration; inches; leaf; leaves; limbs; linn; lumber; maple; mountain; native; new; north; northern; nuts; oak; page; pale; pine; red; roots; sap; scales; season; seeds; shoots; size; smooth; soil; south; southern; species; spring; states; summer; sweet; time; tree; trunk; twigs; water; western; white; wild; wind; winter; wood; year; yellow cache: 37717.txt plain text: 37717.txt item: #45 of 65 id: 38382 author: Curtis, William title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 09 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed date: None words: 11342 flesch: 78 summary: GNAPHALIUM _eximium_ CONVOLVULUS _linearis_ keywords: ait; cal; character; class; colour; flowers; foliis; greenhouse; illustration; kew; leaves; linn; murr; n^o; native; order; plant; seeds; species; synonyms; syst cache: 38382.txt plain text: 38382.txt item: #46 of 65 id: 38904 author: None title: Our Flowering Shrubs, and How to Know Them date: None words: 6011 flesch: 79 summary: [Illustration] Laurel-leaved Cistus (Flower white) Ciste a Feuilles de Laurier (Fleur blanche) Lorbeer-Cistrose (Blüte weiss) _ [Illustration] Mexican Orange-Flower (Flower white) Choisya a Feuilles ternées (Fleur blanche) Echte Zimmerraute (Blüte weiss) _PTELEA TRIFOLIATA, L._ keywords: blanche; blüte; feet; fleur; flowers; illustration; leaves; page; photographs; plant; weiss; white; yellow cache: 38904.txt plain text: 38904.txt item: #47 of 65 id: 39357 author: Sanborn, Charles Emerson title: Texas Honey Plants date: None words: 8127 flesch: 72 summary: Pulse family. Pulse family. keywords: april; august; bees; brood; college; common; coulter; family; honey; honey yield; hunter; july; june; leguminosae; march; places; plants; pollen; prairies; pulse; southern; states; texas; tree; waste; western; yield cache: 39357.txt plain text: 39357.txt item: #48 of 65 id: 40040 author: Smith, C. E. title: Flowers, Shown to the Children date: None words: 36619 flesch: 94 summary: This is a dainty little plant which grows all summer in open woods, and on heaths, where its masses of small yellow flowers look like gold stars among the tangle of green leaves and stems. On one stalk you find groups of small flowers clustered at close intervals round the stalk. keywords: common; flowers; green; grow; leaves; petals; plant; round; seed; stalk; stem; white; yellow cache: 40040.txt plain text: 40040.txt item: #49 of 65 id: 40050 author: Bose, Jagadis Chandra title: Life Movements in Plants, Volume II date: None words: 83362 flesch: 53 summary: +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Effect of direct stimulation on | Effect of indirect stimulation | | proximal side. | Effect of rise | Effect of stimulus. keywords: action; curvature; curve; effect; electric; excitation; experiment; fig; geotropic; geotropic curvature; geotropic movement; growth; induces; intensity; leaf; light; mimosa; movement; negative; organ; phototropic; plant; positive; rate; reaction; record; response; rise; stimulation; stimulus; temperature; upper; variation; | +; | | cache: 40050.txt plain text: 40050.txt item: #50 of 65 id: 40554 author: Forbes, James title: Journal of a Horticultural Tour through Germany, Belgium, and part of France, in the Autumn of 1835 To which is added, a Catalogue of the different Species of Cacteæ in the Gardens at Woburn Abbey. date: None words: 52198 flesch: 78 summary: elong .. Curaçao 1824 D.S.S. br. re. _spinis rubris_ .. .. .. ---- D.S.S. horizontális Ott. sp. wh. elong. keywords: ang; apex; appearance; building; cent; collection; colour; country; cyl; d.s.s; edition; england; english; establishment; ext; feet; fine; flower; form; fruit; garden; good; great; ground; handsome; haw; hothouses; houses; miles; morning; new; number; nursery; o'clock; ott; palace; plants; price; range; ribs; salm; scenery; short; shrubs; small; species; specimens; spines; state; stm; time; town; trees; view; walks; water; year cache: 40554.txt plain text: 40554.txt item: #51 of 65 id: 41175 author: Tyas, Robert title: Woodland Gleanings: Being an Account of British Forest-Trees date: None words: 60922 flesch: 74 summary: It is seldom found mixed with other trees, even when they are coeval with it in point of age. It is admirably calculated to diversify the scene, forming a pleasing variety among other trees, either in summer or winter. keywords: appearance; ash; bark; base; beauty; beech; beneath; boughs; branches; catkins; colour; country; diameter; effect; elm; england; feet; fir; flowers; foliage; following; forest; form; fruit; good; green; ground; growth; half; head; height; illustration; inches; leaf; leaves; light; nature; north; oak; parts; picturesque; plants; scales; seeds; shade; size; smooth; soil; species; spring; thou; thy; timber; time; tree; trunk; white; wild; willow; wood; years cache: 41175.txt plain text: 41175.txt item: #52 of 65 id: 41394 author: Otis, Charles Herbert title: Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species date: None words: 43454 flesch: 82 summary: you find first _a. Leaves simple_, and contrasted with this _aa. Trunk not fluted; catkins usually present in winter; lenticels elongated horizontally; large trees. keywords: bark; branches; branchlet; broad; brown; buds; dark; diameter; feet; flower; fruit; glabrous; gray; green; illustration; inches; leaf; leaves; light; pistillate; red; scales; slender; staminate; tree; trunk; twig; white; winter; yellow cache: 41394.txt plain text: 41394.txt item: #53 of 65 id: 41702 author: Deam, Charles Clemon title: Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) date: None words: 75293 flesch: 78 summary: long and about 7 mm. in diameter; bracts of eastern trees differ from those of Indiana trees which are about 3-4 mm. In point of number it ranks as first of Indiana trees. keywords: apex; area; ash; bark; base; beneath; black; branches; brown; counties; county; dark; deam; diameter; flowers; fruit; glabrous; gray; green; hairy; illustration; inches; indiana; leaves; linnæus; lobes; oak; oblong; ovate; petioles; plate; pubescent; quercus; red; reddish; serrate; smooth; south; southern; species; specimens; state; thick; trees; twigs; variety =; west; white; wood; yellow; | | cache: 41702.txt plain text: 41702.txt item: #54 of 65 id: 42696 author: Furneaux, William S. title: Field and Woodland Plants date: None words: 110405 flesch: 79 summary: These two great divisions or _classes_ are split up into _sub-classes_, each embracing a large number of plants with common characters; and the sub-classes are again divided into _orders_, and the orders into _genera_. The Dog Violet (_Viola canina_--Order _Violaceæ_) is probably too well known to need description, seeing that it is easily distinguished from the other species of the same genus by the absence of scent and by the presence of running stems. keywords: august; base; bracts; branched; calyx; colour; common; corolla; erect; feet; flowering; flowers; form; fruit; grass; green; hairs; heads; height; illustration; inches; ins; july; june; leaves; lobes; narrow; ones; order; ovary; parts; petals; plant flowers; plants; purple; red; sepals; slender; species; species flowers; spreading; spring; stalks; stamens; stem; terminal; toothed; upper; white; wild; yellow cache: 42696.txt plain text: 42696.txt item: #55 of 65 id: 43858 author: Sims, John title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 13 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed date: None words: 12618 flesch: 79 summary: _ in which he describes a second species of _Hydrangea_, which he calls _radiata_,[2] having very distinctly, as in the _Viburnum_, two different kinds of florets in the same Cyma, this variation in the florets is added by him to the generic character: the similarity which exists between the flowers of Mr. Walter's _Hydrangea radiata_, and those of the present plant sufficiently justify Dr. Smith in making it an _Hydrangea_; the appearances observed by Loureiro[3] on dissecting the germen, and our discovery of the existence of two different kinds of flowers in the _Hydrangea arborescens_, tend still more to confirm its propriety; we may add, that in the very habit of these several plants there exists a considerable similarity; still, however, it is only by ripe seed-vessels of the present plant, that this doubtful matter can be satisfactorily cleared up; but it will not follow, MIRABILIS _viscosa_ floribus racemosis; foliis cordatis orbiculato-acutis tomentosis. keywords: ait; cal; character; class; colour; cor; floribus; flowers; foliis; garden; green; illustration; kew; leaves; linn; murr; native; nº.; order; plant; seeds; species; synonyms; syst cache: 43858.txt plain text: 43858.txt item: #56 of 65 id: 44569 author: Boyer, Charles S. (Charles Sumner) title: The Diatomaceæ of Philadelphia and Vicinity date: None words: 57327 flesch: 73 summary: Sm., 95 dactylus Ehr., 103 var. Grun., 69 lævis Greg., 66 lineolata Ehr., 66 _mucronata_ H.L.S., 69 obtusa Greg., 67 ocellata var. keywords: apices; area; blue; broad; bréb; clay; cleve; coast; common; costæ; ehr; ends; fig; figs; form; frustules; greg; grun; j. pl; keel; kuetz; lanceolate; lines; longitudinal; margin; median; middle; narrow; navicula; nitzschia; pinnularia; plate; pseudoraphe; puncta; punctate; radiate; river; rows; species; striæ; transverse; valve; valve lanceolate; valve linear; var; water; zone cache: 44569.txt plain text: 44569.txt item: #57 of 65 id: 45930 author: Elliot, G. F. Scott (George Francis Scott) title: The Romance of Plant Life Interesting Descriptions of the Strange and Curious in the Plant World date: None words: 112253 flesch: 74 summary: The Bumble-bee flies to this great splash of her favourite hue and for a second buzzes angrily, then she notes the small _bright-blue_ patches on the upper lips of the small flowers below the leaves which are set off by _white_ hairs of the upper and _yellow_ hairs of the lower lip. The Holly is one of our most beautiful trees, as John Evelyn points out: This _vulgar_ but _incomparable_ tree.... keywords: africa; america; animals; bark; birds; branches; britain; british; case; cattle; chapter; colour; common; countries; country; course; cut; day; days; desert; earth; end; fact; feet; find; fire; flowers; fly; food; forest; form; fruits; fungus; good; grass; grasses; great; green; ground; growing; growth; hairs; half; high; hundreds; inches; india; insects; inside; instance; kinds; land; leaf; leaves; life; light; living; man; matter; means; moss; mosses; nature; new; order; peat; people; places; plants; point; pollen; produce; rain; red; remains; roots; sea; seeds; sheep; soil; sort; south; spines; spring; stem; sugar; surface; time; trees; use; vegetable; water; water plants; way; white; wild; wind; wood; work; world; years; yellow cache: 45930.txt plain text: 45930.txt item: #58 of 65 id: 46281 author: Bateman, Jas. (James) title: A Monograph of Odontoglossum date: None words: 20011 flesch: 68 summary: The first rumours that reached us of the plant led to a suspicion that it might, after all, be only a variety of _O. vexillarium_, but these unworthy fears were at once dispelled by the flowering of the plant itself at Mr. Bull's nursery in the early part of last September, when Mr. Fitch prepared his drawing, and Professor Reichenbach obtained materials for the description which appeared in the _Gardeners' Chronicle_ of September 27, 1873. _O. triumphans_ does not appear to be so plentiful in its native habitats as _O. Hallii_, _O. luteo-purpureum_, and many other N. Grenada kinds that now swarm in our collections. keywords: base; brevioribus; brown; column; description; feet; flowers; foliis; habitat; illustration; inches; lanceolate; leaves; length; lindl; lindley; lip; new; oblong; odontoglossum; orchids; ovate; petals; plant; plate; pseudobulbs; reichenbach; sepals; species; specimens; white; yellow cache: 46281.txt plain text: 46281.txt item: #59 of 65 id: 47971 author: Armstrong, Margaret title: Field Book of Western Wild Flowers date: None words: 113892 flesch: 76 summary: [Transcriber's note: Italicized text delimited by underscores (_). The field is vast, including within its limits all sorts of climate and soil, producing thousands of flowers, infinite in variety and wonderful in beauty, their environment often as different as that of Heine's _Pine and Palm_. keywords: alternate; anthers; base; bloom; blue; bracts; branches; branching; buds; california=; calyx; capsule; clusters; color; common; corolla; dark; desert; downy; dry; east; effect; etc.=; family; feet; filaments; flowers; foliage; foot; form; fruit; golden; gray; green; hairy; half; herbs; high; illustration; inch; inches; kinds; leaf; leaflets; leaves; light; lilac; little; lobes; mountain; narrow; ones; orange; ovary; pale; petals; pink; pistil; places; plant; pretty; purple; purplish; rays; red; root; seeds; sepals; shrub; sidenote; slender; small; smooth; spreading; spring; stalks; stamens; stems; stigma; stipules; stout; style; summer; tube; united; upper; utah; west; white; wild; yellow; yellowish cache: 47971.txt plain text: 47971.txt item: #60 of 65 id: 5605 author: Darwin, Francis, Sir title: The Power of Movement in Plants date: None words: 193745 flesch: 62 summary: Circumnutation and other movements of Hypocotyls and Epicotyls, whilst still arched and buried beneath the ground, and whilst breaking through it.--According to the position in which a seed may chance to have been buried, the arched hypocotyl or epicotyl will begin to protrude in a horizontal, a more or less inclined, or in a vertical plane. When we treat of the sleep and other movements of plants, many other cases of circumnutating stems will be incidentally given. keywords: a.m.; apex; bend; beneath; card; case; circumnutation; close; contact; cotyledons; course; curvature; curved; day; days; direction; downwards; fig; figure; filament; geotropism; glass; ground; growth; horizontal; hypocotyl; inch; inches; leaf; leaflets; leaves; length; light; line; little; manner; morning; movement; p.m.; page; petiole; plants; position; radicles; rise; seedlings; sleep; species; stem; straight; surface; temperature; terminal; time; tips; upper; upwards; vertical cache: 5605.txt plain text: 5605.txt item: #61 of 65 id: 57291 author: Watling, Roy title: Keys to Fungi on Dung date: None words: 19217 flesch: 80 summary: Coprinus pseudoradiatus_ (fig. 59) (_C. cinereus_ is found on straw/dung mixture and _C. macrocephalus_, with large spores, has been recorded on raw dung). [recorded as _S. fimetaria_ by Richardson (1972); see also Bell (1983) and Dissing (1992)] - Spores 16-20-celled, 50-57 × 3.5-4.5µm. keywords: apothecia; asci; ascospores; brown; cap; dung; ellipsoid; fig; fungi; germ; globose; hairs; illustration; key; long; neck; new; perithecia; smooth; species; spores; veil; white; yellow; µm diam cache: 57291.txt plain text: 57291.txt item: #62 of 65 id: 5765 author: Darwin, Charles title: Insectivorous Plants date: None words: 160989 flesch: 68 summary: Legumin, its digestion by Drosera, 116 Lemna, aggregation in leaves of, 64 Lime, carbonate of, precipitated, causing inflection of Drosera, 32 --, phosphate of, its action on Drosera, 109 Lithium, salts of, action on Drosera, 181 M. Magnesium, salts of, action on Drosera, 182 Manganese chloride, action on Drosera, 185 Marshall, Mr. W., on Pinguicula, 369 Means of movement in Dionaea, 313 -- in Drosera, 254 Meat, infusion of, causing aggregation in Drosera, 51 --, --, action on Drosera, 79 --, its digestion by Drosera, 98 Mercury perchloride, action on Drosera, 183 Milk, inducing aggregation in Drosera, 51 --, action on Drosera, 79 --, its digestion by Drosera, 113 Mirabilis longiflora, glandular hairs of, 352 Moggridge, Traherne, on acids injuring seeds, 128 Moore, Dr., on Pinguicula, 390 Morphia acetate, action on Drosera, 205 Motor impulse in Drosera, 234, 258 -- in Dionaea, 313 Movement, origin of power of, 363 Movements of leaves of Pinguicula, 371 -- of tentacles of Drosera, means of, 254 -- of Dionaea, means of, 313 Mucin, not digested by Drosera, 122 Mucus, action on Drosera, 80 Mller, Fritz, on rhizocephalous crustaceans, 357 N. Nepenthes, its power of digestion, 97 Nickel chloride, action on Drosera, 186 Nicotiana tabacum, glandular hairs of, 352 Nicotine, action on Drosera, 203 Nitric ether, action on Drosera, 220 Nitschke, Dr., references to his papers on Drosera, 1 --, on sensitiveness of backs of leaves of Drosera, 231 --, on direction of inflected tentacles in Drosera, 244 --, on Aldrovanda, 322 Nourishment, various means of, by plants, 452 Nuttall, Dr., on re-expansion of Dionaea, 318 O. Odour of pepsin, emitted from leaves of Drosera, 88 Oil, olive, action of, on Drosera, 78, 126 Oliver, Prof., on Utricularia, 432, 441-446 P. Papaw, juice of, hastening putrefaction, 411 Particles, minute size of, causing inflection in Drosera, 27, 32 Peas, decoction of, action on Drosera, 82 Pelargonium zonale, glandular hairs of, 350 Pepsin, odour of, emitted from Drosera leaves, 88 --, not digested by Drosera, 123 --, its secretion by animals excited only after absorption, 129 Peptogenes, 129 Pinguicula grandiflora, 390 -- lusitanica, 391 [page 460] PINGUICULA--SAXIFRAGA. Other leaves in iodic acid, diluted to the same degree, showed after 2 hrs. keywords: acid; action; aggregated; aggregation; ammonia; bits; bladders; carbonate; case; cells; days; disc; drops; drosera; effect; fluid; glands; grain; hrs; impulse; inflected; inflection; insects; leaf; leaves; little; manner; masses; matter; meat; minims; minute; movement; page; particles; phosphate; plants; power; protoplasm; salts; secretion; solution; surface; tentacles; time; water cache: 5765.txt plain text: 5765.txt item: #63 of 65 id: 59555 author: Kephart, Leonard Wheeler title: Poison-ivy, Poison-oak and Poison Sumac: Identification, Precautions and Eradication date: None words: 10099 flesch: 67 summary: Poison-ivy and other poisonous plants growing in grounds frequented by people should be eradicated. A number of other plants are easily confused with poison-ivy. keywords: figure; form; ivy; leaf; leaflets; leaves; oak; oil; plants; poison; poison sumac; poisoning; species; sumac cache: 59555.txt plain text: 59555.txt item: #64 of 65 id: 62715 author: Stockberger, W. W. (Warner Webster) title: Drug Plants Under Cultivation date: None words: 27351 flesch: 72 summary: Knowledge respecting the cultivation and handling of medicinal-plant crops is far less widespread than in the case of such generally distributed crops as fruits, vegetables, and cereals, and certain individuals have taken advantage of this lack of information to lead the public to believe that extraordinary profits may be realized from growing medicinal plants, even in a situation no more promising than the average city back yard. [Illustration] This Bulletin gives general suggestions relative to the culture, harvesting, distillation, yield, marketing, and commercial prospects for drug plants. keywords: acre; cents; crop; cultivation; drug; drug plants; herb; inches; june; leaves; plants; pound; price; roots; rows; seed; soil; sown; spring; year; yield cache: 62715.txt plain text: 62715.txt item: #65 of 65 id: 7234 author: Vries, Hugo de title: Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation date: None words: 184513 flesch: 62 summary: Young stems of _rubrinervis_ may be broken off by a sharp stroke, and show a smooth rupture across all the tissues, while those of _lamarckiana_ are very tough and strong. This was especially observed in the case of _rubrinervis_, which is not of such rare occurrence as _O. gigas_, and which it has been possible to study in large numbers of individuals. keywords: average; branches; cases; change; characters; color; conditions; course; crosses; culture; degree; discussion; doubt; elementary; evidence; experiments; fact; flowers; forms; garden; generation; groups; half; heads; hybrid; importance; individuals; instances; leaves; lecture; life; means; mutations; nature; new; number; ones; order; origin; original; parent; parts; period; place; plants; point; present; produce; qualities; question; race; red; result; rule; second; seeds; selection; species; specimens; state; stems; systematic; time; type; variability; varieties; variety; way; white; wild; years cache: 7234.txt plain text: 7234.txt