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- a wing to the seed
- Flowers of the fireweed
- a single seed sailboat of the dandelion
- Peach cut in half lengthwise
- Seeds of the willow
- sumac
- a strange and terrible fruit
- Empress of China climbing rose
- Low at our feet are the red ones of the wintergreen
- Lily
- the fruit of Solomon’s seal
- speckled red berries of the false Solomon’s seal
- Jack-in-the-pulpit
- Poppy
- winged fruits of the maple
- fruit clusters of the golden-rod
- Plum
- Burdock Burr
- Lilies
- bunch of the long-winged seeds of the ash
- clematis flowers
- Cherry flower
- red-stalked dogwood
- Indian cucumber root
- Lily and Rose
- fruit cluster of the dandelion
- Chokeberries
- Adaption of Horned Poppy for needlework
- The flowers of the partridge vine
- Peach
- Study of Horned Poppy
Study of Horned Poppy - the pine just starting out in the world, with its six seed leaves
- The coffee tree
The Coffee Tree For the Satisfaction of the Curious, have prefix’d a Figure of the Tree, Flower, and Fruit, which I delineated from a growing Tree in the Amsterdam Gardens. - cottonwood tree seeds
- Venus’s Fly-trap
No better example of carnivorous plants could be taken than Dionæa muscipula, or to use the common name, Venus’s Fly-trap. It is a species that is indigenous to North Carolina and the adjacent parts of South Carolina, affecting sandy bogs in the pine forests from April to June, and a representative of the Droscraceæ, or Sundew Family. One cannot fail after once seeing it of becoming impressed with its peculiar characteristics. It is a smooth perennial herb with tufted radical leaves on broadly-winged, spatulate stems, the limb orbicular, notched at both ends, and fringed on the margins with strong bristles. From the centre of the rosette of leaves proceeds at the proper time a scape or leafless stalk which terminates in an umbel-like cyme of from eight to ten white bracted flowers, each flower being one inch in diameter. The roots are small and consist of two branches each an inch in length springing from a bulbous enlargement. Like an epiphytic orchid, these plants can be grown in well-drained damp moss without any soil, thus showing that the roots probably serve for the absorption of water solely. Three minute pointed processes or filaments, placed triangularly, project from the upper surface of each lobe of the bi-lobed leaf, although cases are observed where four and even ten filaments are found. These filaments are remarkable for their extreme sensitiveness to touch, as shown not only by their own movement, but by that of the lobes also. Sharp, rigid projections, diminutive spikes as it were, stand out from the leaf-margins, each of which being entered by a bundle of spiral vessels. They are so arranged that when the lobes close they interlock like the teeth of an old-fashioned rat-trap. That considerable strength may be had, the mid-rib of the leaf, on the lower side, is quite largely developed. - Round-Leaved Sundew
Growing in poor peaty soil, and sometimes along the borders of ponds where nothing else can grow, certain low herbaceous plants, called Droseras, abound. So small and apparently insignificant are they, that to the ordinary observer they are almost unnoticed. But they have peculiarities of structure and nature that readily distinguish them. Scattered thickly over their leaves are reddish bristles or tentacles, each surmounted by a gland, from which an extremely viscid fluid, sparkling in the sunlight like dew, exudes in transparent drops. Hence the common name of Sundew by which the half-dozen species found in the United States east of the Mississippi River are known. A one-sided raceme, whose flowers open only when the sun shines, crowns a smooth scape, which is devoid of tentacles. Drosera rotundifolia, our commonest species, has a wide range, being indigenous to both Europe and America. In the United States it extends from New England to Florida and westward, and is occasionally associated with Drosera longifolia, a form with long strap-shaped leaves, but whose distribution is mostly restricted to maritime regions, from Massachusetts to Florida. - Pentapterygium serpens (flowers deep crimson)
In the wet season they push out new shoots, from which grow rapidly wands three or four feet long, clothed with box-like leaves, and afterward with numerous pendulous flowers. These are elegant in shape and richly colored. They are urn-shaped, with five ribs running the whole length of the corolla, and their color is bright crimson with deeper colored V-shaped veins, as shown in the illustration of the flowers of almost natural size. They remain fresh upon the plant for several weeks. The beautiful appearance of a well grown specimen when in flower may be seen from the accompanying sketch of the specimen at Kew, which was at its best in July, and remained in bloom until the middle of September. - Pentapterygium serpens
This is one of five species of Himalayan plants which, until recently, were included in the genus vaccinium. The new name for them is ugly enough to make one wish that they were vacciniums still. Pentapterygium serpens is the most beautiful of the lot, and, so far as I know, this and P. rugosum are the only species in cultivation in England. The former was collected in the Himalayas about ten years ago by Captain Elwes, who forwarded it to Kew, where it grows and flowers freely under the same treatment as suits Cape heaths. - Gladiolus psittacinus
Gladiolus psittacinus - Adenium multiflorum
Adenium multiflorum - Gardenia globosa
Gardenia globosa - Cyrtanthus obliquus
Cyrtanthus obliquus - Haemanthus natalensis
Haemanthus natalensis - Agapanthus Umbellatus
Agapanthus Umbellatus - Clivia miniata
Clivia miniata - Richardia angustiloba
Richardia angustiloba - Aloe pretoriensis
Aloe pretoriensis - Cyrtanthus rotundilobus
Cyrtanthus rotundilobus - Mimetes palustris
Mimetes palustris - Crassula falcata
Cyrtanthus Angustifolius - Ceropegia Rendallii
Ceropegia Rendallii - Cyrtanthus sanguineus
Cyrtanthus sanguineus - Sarcocaulon rigidum
Sarcocaulon rigidum - Gerbera Jamesoni
Gerbera Jamesoni - Nymphaea stellata
Nymphaea stellata - Freesia refracta
Freesia refracta - Clerodendron triphyllum
Clerodendron triphyllum - Streptocarpus Dunnii
Streptocarpus Dunnii - Aloe Pienaarii
Aloe Pienaarii - Richardia Rehmanni
Richardia Rehmanni