. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. FIG. 37.—CORYMB. Corymb, a raceme with the pedicels becom- ing gradually shorter as they appro
. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. FIG. 37.—CORYMB. Corymb, a raceme with the pedicels becom- ing gradually shorter as they approach the top of the flower stalk, so that all the flowers are nearly on a level (fig. 37). Corymbose, in the form of a corymb. Costate, ribbed. Cotyledons, the seed lobes, often forming the first leaves of the plant (fig. 48, c). Crassus, thick and fleshy. Cremocarp, the name given to the half-fruits or carpels of the TJmbellifer family, which split apart when ripe (fig. 38).. FIG. 3a.—CREMOCARP. FIG. 39.—CKENATB. Crenate, with rounded teeth on the margins of leaves. See fig. 39, which represents a heart-shaped (cordate) reniform (kidney- shaped) leaf with a crenate margin. Crenulate, minutely crenate. Crested, having an appendage like a crest, as in the cultivated forms of many Ferns and in Cockscombs (p. 762). Crinitus, furnished with tufts of shaggy hair. Cruciform, four parts, as petals, arranged so as to form a cross, as in Arabia, Wallflower, and most of the Crucifer order (fig. 40).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weathers, John, 1867-1928. London; New York, Longmans, Green
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