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• I opened the stomachs of several, and found them largely distended with minced sea-weed (Ulvæ), which grows in thin foliaceous expansions of a bright green or a dull red colour. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
• The common honeysuckle, _Lonicera Periclymenum_, is one of these, and it is noticeable in this plant that the calyx remains unaffected -- a circumstance which Morren says shows the distinctness of virescence from frondescence; for, in this instance, we have the most foliaceous portion of the flower remaining unchanged, while the corolla and other organs, usually less leaf-like in their nature, assume a green colour; but this may rather be attributed to the axial nature of the so-called adherent calyx. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• Moquin [263] relates having found in the neighbourhood of Montpellier a flower of a tulip the ovary of which was represented by true leaves, which bore on their margins the ovules, and thus presented a striking analogy with the carpels of those Sterculias, like _S. platanifolia_, which are foliaceous in texture and open very early in the course of their development. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• Cassia phyllodinea is one of the very few species of the genus, which, like the far greater part of New Holland Acaciae lose their compound leaves, and are reduced to the footstalk, or phyllodium, as it is then called, and which generally becomes foliaceous by vertical compression and dilatation. Expedition into Central Australia
• I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deliquescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, — the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off. The Island of Doctor Moreau
• There are cases, however, in which a part only of the pistillary structure thus becomes foliaceous. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• In other cases no traces of ovules are visible, but the funiculi are in a foliaceous condition. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• M. Fournier [68] gives as an illustration the case of a specimen of _Ruscus aculeatus_ in which there occurred a division of the foliaceous branches into two segments, reaching as far as the insertion of the flower, but no further. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• In one case the carpel was closed above, gaping below, where it gave origin to several leaflets, the lower ones oval, dentate, like ordinary leaflets, the upper ones merely lanceolate, leafy lobes, representing the primine reduced to a foliaceous condition. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• -- Under this name are imported into this country the dried foliaceous tops of a strongly odoriferous labiate plant, growing three feet high in India and China, called in Bengalee and Hindu, _pucha pat_. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o