. 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. 108.—TERNATE. FIG. 109.—'l-ETRA- DTNAMOtrS. Tetradynamous, having six stamens, of which t
. 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. 108.—TERNATE. FIG. 109.—'l-ETRA- DTNAMOtrS. Tetradynamous, having six stamens, of which two are shorter than the other four, as in the Wallflower (fig. 109) and most plants of the Crucifer order. Tetragonous, with four angles and four convex faces, like the stems of Dead Nettles and many other plants of the Labiate order. Thalamus, the receptacle or torus of a flower. Thorn, an abortive branch with a sharp point; distinguished from a Prickle by being woody. Throat, the orifice of the tube of a gamo- petalous corolla or gamosepalous calyx. Thyrsoid, having a close-branched raceme of which the middle is broader than the ends. Tomentose, covered with cottony entangled hairs, forming a matted shagginess called tomentwm; felted. Toothed, having small tooth-like divisions on the margin. Torus, the part on which the divisions of a flower or fruit are seated; the same as receptacle. Trifoliate, composed of three leaflets, as the leaves of Clover shown in fig. Ill, where the leaflets are ciliated on the margins; the stipules at the base are shown at s. Trifoliolate, having three leaflets proceeding from the same point, as in fig. 19. Trigonous, with three angles and three convex faces. ^ Tripartite, divided into three parts nearly to its base; more than trifid. Tripinnate, three times pinnately sub- divided, as if the leaflets in fig. 17 were again divided. Triquetrous, having three angles and three concave faces. Tristis, dull-coloured. Truncate, blunt as if cut off at
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