First book of Indian botany / Daniel Oliver.

  • Daniel Oliver
Date:
1869
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Credit: First book of Indian botany / Daniel Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    axis. Upon the ascending axis all the leaves, both foliage and flower-leaves, are arranged. The plant thus consists of axis and appendages. Leaves.—These, we have found, are of five different kinds. First are the radical and cauline (1) Foliage-leaves, called simply leaves.1 Then come the Flowers, terminating the stem or its branches, consisting of— (2) Calyx-leaves, called sepals. (3) Corolla-leaves, called petals. (4) Staminal leaves, called stamens. (5) Carpellary leaves, called carpels. 1 In many plants we may distinguish two modifications of the leaf below the flower-leaves, besides the green foliage-leaves, but it is not important to distinguish these at present.
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