. The first book of botany : designed to cultivate the observing powers of children. Erect. Nodding. Erect.—^ODDiNG.—Bending over. NoTE.—Many of the characters already noted as belongingto the stem of a plant, belong also to the peduncle. Its color,surface, shape, length, limpness, twist, and curvature, may berecorded in connection with the attitude in the same terms asare used in stem-descriptions. Some of the statements in the description of Fig. 152 areto be compared with the living plant, and not the picture. THE 152. 81. Pendulous. Pendulous.—Hanging down. Sch
. The first book of botany : designed to cultivate the observing powers of children. Erect. Nodding. Erect.—^ODDiNG.—Bending over. NoTE.—Many of the characters already noted as belongingto the stem of a plant, belong also to the peduncle. Its color,surface, shape, length, limpness, twist, and curvature, may berecorded in connection with the attitude in the same terms asare used in stem-descriptions. Some of the statements in the description of Fig. 152 areto be compared with the living plant, and not the picture. THE 152. 81. Pendulous. Pendulous.—Hanging down. Schedule Eighteen, describing Fig. 152. Parts? cfec/ccnc/e, Q^-Zowei. Attitude ? 2/enc/u/ou^. Leaf. — Simple, petiolate, exstipnlate, feather-veined, irregularly-dentate, ovate-acuminate, green,smooth, cauline, opposite. SteMo—Round, slightly bending, reddish brown,smooth, slender, solid, woody. 82 THE FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. EXEKCISE Terminal and Axial Inflorescence. Fig. 153.
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