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This section is from the book "Handbook Of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, And Herbaceous Plants", by W. Botting Hemsley. Also available from Amazon: Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants.
Curved in the form of a sickle.
Applied to the branches of a tree when they are erect and close, as in the Upright Cypress and Lom-bardy Poplar.
Several organs growing from one point, as leaves, flowers, or roots.
Applied to the soft hairy pappus of many Composites, plumose.
The lower portion or stalk of a stamen, bearing the anther.
Thread-like, slender.
Fringed at the margin.
Applied to the hollow stems and leaves of plants.
Pale yellow.
Applied to the separate flowers of Compositse and similar plants.
Floating.
A leaf. Plural, Folia.
Separate, not joined together or with any other organs.
Applied to the leaves of Ferns and Palms.
The seed-vessel with its appendages.
A shrub; a woody plant destitute of a trunk, and branching from the base, or nearly so.
Falling very early, as the sepals of the Poppies and the petals of Cistus.
Dull yellow, buff.
Brownish.
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