. 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. 50.—DIGITATE. EIG. 61.—DIMIDIATE. unequal in size, like the leaves of Begonias, Lime tree
. 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. 50.—DIGITATE. EIG. 61.—DIMIDIATE. unequal in size, like the leaves of Begonias, Lime trees &o. (fig. 51). Dicecious, with the different sexes on different plants: stamens on one plant, pistils on another, as in Willows, Aucubas, Hippophae <ji:c. Disc, a fleshy surface from which the stamens and pistils spring. The term' disci- florffi ' has been applied to a large class of plants having these characters (p. 123). Disc florets are the central flowers in Com- posite plants like Daisy, Marguerite <fec. Dissected, deeply divided into many narrow lobes, like the lea'vea of Umbelliferous plants, Thaliotrums &c. Dissepiments, the partitions of an ovary or fruit, as shown in fig. 46. Distichous, arranged in two opposite rows, as the leaves of Taxodium distichum (p. 983). Divaricate, spreading at an obtuse angle. Drupe, a fleshy fruit having a hard stone (putamen or endocarp, shown at s), as the Cherry, Plum, Peach &c. (fig. 52). m repre- sents the fleshy edible portion called meso- carp, and e the skin or epicarp. See Pome, fig. 88. Duramen, the heartwood or centre of Dicotyledonous trees, and the outer part of the stem of Monocotyledo- Echinate, clothed with spines or prickles, like the fruit of the Sweet Chestnut. Elliptic, oval, but pointed at each end. Elongate, much lengthened. Emarginate, slightly notched at the end, as in the case of many leaves (fig. 53). Embryo, the germ of a plant in the seed (see p. 24).. Please note that these images are e
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