The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . kles, which are inconspicuousto the feye, though at once perceptible to the touch. The jmcklcs arefound on eveiy part of the plant, except the peduncles, and secondaryrachiscs of the leaves; they are also generally worn off the oldbranches and stems. These, when old, are pale brown or grey, aswell as s
The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . kles, which are inconspicuousto the feye, though at once perceptible to the touch. The jmcklcs arefound on eveiy part of the plant, except the peduncles, and secondaryrachiscs of the leaves; they are also generally worn off the oldbranches and stems. These, when old, are pale brown or grey, aswell as smooth and round; the young ones are strongly sulcated andangular, and more or less pubescent with short, wooly, fulvous, glan-dular hairs; foliage most delicate and lovely; the leaves resemblinggracefully curved or drooping plumes of feathers, of a fine, bright, pe-culiar yellow-gi-een, six to eight inches long, and one to two broad ;stipules very minute, narrow-minute, ovate, erect, and vithering; ])c-tioles geniculate at the base, the part below the elbow two lines long,angular and slender, the upper side channelled with an oblong, hol-low, boat-shaped gland a little above the elbow; copiously clothedwith short, glandular, fulvous pubescence, and fimiished with recurved,Vol. IV.— ^^lU^^Z^, L^ oca^t^f ie^/a. NAT. ORDER.— 149 scattered prickles beneath, like the main rachis, which is elegantlycurved ; kajlcts very minute and delicate, ajjparently smooth andnaked, but through the lens minutely and irregularly puberulous, es-pecially at the edges; they close up and lose all their beauty aboutfour or five oclock in the afternoon ; the spikes (not heads) of flowersare short and oblong-, pale ochre-yellow, produced four or five togetherfrom the axils of the upper leaves, which become less and less devel-oped towards the ends of the branches, so as to form a long, irregularsort of a terminal, leafy, compound, branched panicle; slightly fra-grant ; jicdides, half t
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