The Essentials of Botany

Portada
Holt, 1896 - 356 páginas
 

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 108 - ... to sweep small ellipses or cir-cles, as far as the pressure of the surrounding earth permitted. All this astonishing amount of movement has been going on year after year since the time when, as a seedling, the tree first emerged from the ground.
Página 108 - If we look, for instance, at a great acacia tree, we may feel assured that every one of the innumerable growing shoots is constantly describing small ellipses ; as is each petiole, sub-petiole, and leaflet.
Página 113 - ... twigs of cottonwoods and some willows. In all these cases the essential feature is the separation from the parent plant of one or more living cells, which continue to grow, eventually producing a plant like the parent. In marked contrast to the foregoing are the various modifications of the sexual reproductive process, in which the essential feature is the union of two cells in the formation of the first cell of the new plant. In the simplest cases two apparently similar cells fuse into one,...
Página 336 - ... opposite leaves; stamens usually double the number of petals ; pistil 2- to many-celled, free or adherent to the calyx-tube; ovules minute, numerous, on axile or parietal placentae.

Información bibliográfica