Erythea: Journal of Botany, West American and General, Volume 7University of California., 1899 |
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Erythea: A Journal of Botany, West American and General, Volume 3 Willis Linn Jepson No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 82 - ... small but in very favorable situations may attain a height of 50 feet or more. The long, slender, pole-like trunks are used more or less for fencing, and as fuel are not to be despised. Transplanted from the grove and set out singly they grow but slowly and never form shapely trees. 6. WILLOW. (Salix] Perhaps no other state in the United States possesses so many different kinds of willows as Wyoming. Mr. M. S. Bebb (now deceased), the greatest authority on willows in recent times, in a letter...
Page 58 - That copies of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased and to the various daily and scientific journals.
Page 140 - The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean.
Page 128 - Miss Alice Eastwood, Curator of the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences.
Page 96 - ... entire, mucronulate lobes : flowers on slender peduncles, soon deflexed, and burying the capsule more or less in the soil : lobes of the calyx triangular-acuminate, ciliate, the appendages nearly as long as the lobes : corolla very small (4—6 mm. in diameter), little exceeding the calyx lobes, white, its appendages minute, consisting of narrow, vertical folds, ciliate with 1—3 short hairs : ovules 4 : mature capsule 4-6 mm. in diameter, much exceeding the calyx lobes : seeds 4, irregularly...
Page 124 - The bark of the branches is ash-colored and smooth. Leaves two inches long, and nearly as wide, are very smooth, veined, rather heart-shaped, with a small number of distant and prickly teeth. Male flowers sessile, on slender racemes two inches long ; calyx shorter than the five filaments ; anthers large, bilocular.
Page 72 - Hirsute, especially below; stems erect or ascending, at length much branched and leafy to tha numerous corymbosely-crowded heads, 3-4 dm. high : leaves linear, obtuse or acute, attenuate to the base, 4-8 cm. long, entire or with a few short teeth: heads 8-10 mm. high; involucral bracts linear, those of the receptacle about 15, slightly united below; rays 14—20, 5 mm. long; disk flowers numerous: akenes of the ray rugose-tuberculate at maturity, indistinctly triangular, with an upturned beak, and...
Page 44 - ... Ind., 16 March 1865. He was graduated at De Pauw University in 1890 and studied in Germany. In 1891-2 McDOUGALL — McDOWELL he was engaged in explorations in Arizona and Idaho for the United States government, and in 1893-9 was instructor in plant physiology at the University of Minnesota. He was appointed director of the laboratories of the New York Botanical Gardens in iSgg. Among his books are: 'Nature and Work of Plants' (1900); •Practical Text-book of Plant Physiology
Page 162 - Were the Fruits Made for Man, or Did Man Make the Fruits?" Here, among other things, he discusses what our pomology would have been if the civilization from which it, and we ourselves, have sprung, had had its birthplace along the southern shores of our great lakes, the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico, and the intervening Mississippi, instead of the Levant, Mesopotamia and the Nile, and our old world had been open to us as a new world, less than four hundred years ago.
Page 162 - A correspondent in New Mexico states that on one occasion he counted as many as one hundred sheep that had been killed by eating the leaves of this plant. It is claimed that cows are not affected by eating it at any time and that sheep can eat it quite freely in winter. Death is perhaps due more to the bloating effect than to any poisonous substance which the plant contains.