Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 6. something like this often takes place when the tipof a leaf has been bitten whilst folded up, everyleaflet being equally injured, but this seems soregularly formed that I think it is a natural mon- Fig;. 7. Figure 7 is a drawing of a not unfrequent form ofPlantain (Plai/tagu lanceolata), which has becomeproliferous, producing small flower-heads on foot-stalks and several leaves from the base of theflower. Gathered at Beaumaris during the lastsummer. Jan. 1,1866.]
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 6. something like this often takes place when the tipof a leaf has been bitten whilst folded up, everyleaflet being equally injured, but this seems soregularly formed that I think it is a natural mon- Fig;. 7. Figure 7 is a drawing of a not unfrequent form ofPlantain (Plai/tagu lanceolata), which has becomeproliferous, producing small flower-heads on foot-stalks and several leaves from the base of theflower. Gathered at Beaumaris during the lastsummer. Jan. 1,1866.] SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 9 Fig. 8 is a very interesting example of Marvel ofPeru {Mirabilis jalapa), which lias grown in mygarden during the last summer. This plant, belongsto the natural order Nyctaginacesc, a tribe in whichthere is no corolla, but the calyx becomes coloured,and is placed, solitary or clustered, in an involucre
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