A Catalogue of the Uncultivated Ferns and Fern Allies and the Flowering Plants of Vigo County, Indiana1896 - 129 Seiten |
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abundant Adans April 13 April 20 Aster August August 20 Beach's woods Benth borders of ponds Borders of prairies borders of swamps Britton CANADENSIS Coal Creek common Conover's Pond damp woods dry soil Fair Ground Family fence rows fence-rows Ferrell's Five-Mile Pond flowering plants flowers frequent Glen Goose Pond Grass gravelly banks Gray Heckland Honey Creek Indiana July July 20 June 20 Kuntze leaves margins of ponds McKeen's woods meadows Michx Muhl Nelumbo Nutt old canal Old fields open woods Panicum plants Pursh rare rich soil rich woods roadsides Sand Hill Sandy banks sandy hillsides sandy soil scarce Sedge September Sides of canal Sides of ravines south of Fair Southeast of Hunt's species specimens Terre Haute trees upland woods Vandalia Vandalia Railway Vigo County VIRGINIANA VIRGINICA Wabash River Walt waste places weed White Wild Willd wooded hillsides woods in rich Yellow
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Seite 639 - ... of all its kind, and foreign potentates shall hear of it, and royal societies seek to propagate it, though the virtues of the perhaps truly crabbed owner of the soil may never be heard of, — at least, beyond the limits of his village ? It was thus the Porter and the Baldwin grew. Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit...
Seite 588 - List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta growing without cultivation in Northeastern North. America," prepared by a Committee of the Botanical Club of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and published in 1894 as the fifth volume of the Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club.
Seite 639 - Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man ! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate ; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in...
Seite 638 - ... the life of Nature, by which she eternally flourishes, is untouched. It stands here in the shadow on the side of the hill, while the sunlight from over the top of the hill lights up its topmost sprays and yellow blossoms. Its spray, so jointed and angular, is not to be mistaken for any other. I lie on my back with joy under its boughs. While its leaves fall, its blossoms spring. The autumn, then, is indeed a spring. All the year is a spring.
Seite 676 - L. Moth Mullein. Roadsides and waste places ; scarce. National road west of Macksville. Durkey's Ferry road, north of Fivemile Pond. May 25. 657. (3432.) V. THAPSUS L. Common Mullein. Old, dry fields, banks and roadsides; common. June 11. Many plants there are which man in his ignorance calls "homely weeds," ne'er seeing their smaller points of usefulness or beauty. The mullein, with its long spikes of yellow flowers and thick, velvety leaves, is one of these. Its basal leaves which, when it blooms,...
Seite 594 - Pursh.) Borders of ponds ; frequent. May 22. . "Specimens differ greatly in size and form of leaf, the difference depending largely on the habitat of the plant. When growing in deep pools or running streams the petioles become thick, rigid and elongated, with long, narrowly lanceolate, spongy blades, or the tapering attenuate phyllodia are leafless. This is the S.
Seite 694 - ... (Barnes). R. HIRTA L. Black-eyed Susan. Meadow Coue Flower. Nigger-head. In all parts of the State, being found in open places in either dry or damp soils. It is perhaps more abundant in dry soils. It varies widely in habit even in the same situation. Prof. Blatchley says: "Appears to be both an annual and biennial; in the former case lower and more simple stemmed and blooming in late autumn; as a biennial, stouter, more branched and blossoming early.
Seite 586 - What is a weed ? How does it differ from a wild flower? These questions are often asked by persons who are beginning the study of botany, and pupils have been known to put aside a specimen with a look of disgust, saying that they " did not want to study that nasty weed.
Seite 624 - L.) Borders of railways and wheatfields; frequent. May 20. A handsome, but vile weed. 128. SILENE L. Campions. "To prevent ants, small beetles, and other honey-eating intruders from creeping up the stalk, and so rifling the nectaries without doing any good to the plant in return, the stems of the campions are covered with hairs, and exude a sticky, viscid gum, both of which peculiarities aid them in baffling the unwelcome wingless visitors, while the inflated calyx and long tube effectually keep...
Seite 614 - Muhl. Long-leaved Willow. Sand-bar Willow. Sandy, moist places along the Wabash river and the larger ponds ; frequent. April 20. 197. (1335.) S. NIGRA Marsh. Black Willow. Banks of streams and ponds; common. May 10. This is the largest native willow found in the county, in some instances reaching a diameter of nearly two feet. Along the low banks of the smaller streams it often grows in great masses. The roots often extend in search of moisture to a depth of ten feet or more into the alluvial soil...