Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 238. Ovate Penstemon (Pentstemon ovaf/u;i).—Yeryirregular and angular, often presenting nearly atriangular face. Brownish, or blackish-brown, paleralong the angular edges. Surface rough, with afugitive superficial reticulation. Climbing Lophospermum (Lophospermum scan- Nov. 1, 1SGS.] HARDWICKES S C IEN CE - GOSSIP. dens).—The centre of the seed dark brown, coveredwith conical striate papillae, or spicate with a semi-transparent wing on each side,lobed and wav
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 238. Ovate Penstemon (Pentstemon ovaf/u;i).—Yeryirregular and angular, often presenting nearly atriangular face. Brownish, or blackish-brown, paleralong the angular edges. Surface rough, with afugitive superficial reticulation. Climbing Lophospermum (Lophospermum scan- Nov. 1, 1SGS.] HARDWICKES S C IEN CE - GOSSIP. dens).—The centre of the seed dark brown, coveredwith conical striate papillae, or spicate with a semi-transparent wing on each side,lobed and waved at the edge, meeting aboveand below. Outline polygonal. Wing-membranefragile, with radiating striae, colourless at the beautiful (fig. 239, x 40). Imperial Paulownia (Paulownia imperialis).—Another winged seed, very distinct from the elongated, almost fiddle-shaped. Wingcolourless and transparent. Smaller and similarmembranaceous frills extend along the surface ofthe seed between the wings. The wings have apeculiar frilled and furbelowed appearance (fig. 240)..
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