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- 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. - cottonwood tree seeds
- 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. - Study of Horned Poppy
Study of Horned Poppy - The flowers of the partridge vine
- Adaption of Horned Poppy for needlework
- Peach
- Lily and Rose
- Chokeberries
- fruit cluster of the dandelion
- bunch of the long-winged seeds of the ash
- the fruit of Solomon’s seal
- red-stalked dogwood
- Indian cucumber root
- Plum
- Cherry flower
- Lilies
- winged fruits of the maple
- Low at our feet are the red ones of the wintergreen
- Jack-in-the-pulpit
- fruit clusters of the golden-rod
- clematis flowers
- Burdock Burr
- speckled red berries of the false Solomon’s seal
- Lily
- Empress of China climbing rose
- Poppy
- a strange and terrible fruit
- sumac
- Peach cut in half lengthwise
- Flowers of the fireweed
- Seeds of the willow
- a single seed sailboat of the dandelion
- dandelion seedbox
- a wing to the seed
- If you split open a maple key, you will find hidden within one of its halves the beautiful baby tree
- Cherry
- a fruit cluster from the hop hornbeam
- hemlock cone
- Maple keys
- bean plants
- air ships of the milkweed
- Poppyheads
Poppyheads - a witch-hazel branch bearing both flowers and fruit
- Seed Sailboats
- seed which is shaped and marked like a beetle
- the fruit cluster of the aster
- acorn
- seed case of the tick trefoil
- white potato
- Stages of growth of a squash plant
- Cherry Flower 2
- young corn plant
- Cyclamen roots
- mangrove fruit
- pine cone on a branch
- The fruit of the dandelion is the silvery puffball
- pine cone
- root of a beet plant