A dictionary of the ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, most commonly cultivated in the plantations, gardens, and stoves of Great Britain / [Charles Bryant].

  • Charles Bryant
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[1790]
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Credit: A dictionary of the ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, most commonly cultivated in the plantations, gardens, and stoves of Great Britain / [Charles Bryant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stamina of the Lily are the Summits, or An- there of Linneus, and contain the Pollen or male duit. Neétarium; this is a part of a flower feemingly de- fiened by nature for'the fecretion of the honey, and in different Flowers it differs greatly in figure. In Narciffus it refembles a cup; in Aquilegia a horn; in Helleborus it 1s tcoop- fhaped. A Male Flower; this contains only Stamina, or in their abfence, only Summits. | A Female Flower; this contains only Styles, or in their abfence, only Stigmas. es A Neuter Flower ; this contains neither Summits, nor Stigmas. An Hermaphrodite Flower ; this contains both Stamina ; and Styles. | | A Pedunculated Flower; this is fupported on a foot- ftalk, which footftalk is a peduncle. A Sefile Flower; this has no footftalk or peduncle, but ftands clofe to fome part of the Plant. A Compound Flower * ; this is made up of many feffile Florets, or fmall Flowers of one petal each, having no individual Calyces, but are all in- cluded inone common Calyx, and ftand on one common, undivided Receptacle. Both the Male and Hermaphrodite Florets have always five Stamina, with their Summits united in a kind of cylindar, through which paffes a thread fhaped Style; and the Florets produce only one feed each; asin Starwort. _ An Aggregate Flower ; this has afpreading Receptacle, colleéting many Florets into one head, and each Floret has its own proper Calyx, and its fum- mits are detached; asin Seabzous. A Butterfly Flower ; this is for the moft part compoled of four petals, fo difpofed as fomewhat to relem- blea Butterfly. The upper Petal is termed the * The middle of acompound Flower is termed the Difk, and the part the Florets ftand onthe Receptacle.
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