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CAPRIFOLIACEAE , a natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:plants belonging to the sympetalous or higher See also:division of See also:Dicotyledons, that namely which is characterized by having the petals of the See also:flower See also:united. The plants are mainly shrubs and trees; See also:British representatives are Sambucus (See also:elder), See also:Viburnum (guelder-See also:rose and wayfaring See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree), Lonicera (See also:honeysuckle) (see fig.); Adoxa (moschatel), a small See also:herb with a creeping See also:stem and small yellowish-See also:green See also:flowers, is occasionally found on See also:damp hedge-See also:banks; Linnaea, a slender creeping See also:evergreen with a See also:- THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)
thread-like stem and See also:pink See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
bell-shaped
flower, a See also:northern plant, occurs in See also:fir-forests and plantations in the See also:north of See also:England and See also:Scotland. The leaves are opposite, See also:simple as in honeysuckle, or See also:compound as in elder; they have usually no stipules. The flowers are See also:regular as in Viburnum
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Flowering shoot of Lonicera Caprifolium, slightly reduced. 1, See also:Fruit slightly reduced; 2, See also:horizontal See also:plan of arrangement of flower.
and Sambucus, more rarely two-lipped as in Lonicera; the sepals and petals are usually five in number and placed above the ovary, the five stamens are attached to the corolla-See also:tube, there are three to five carpels, and the fruit is a See also:berry as in honeysuckle or snowberry (Symphoricarpus), or a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone fruit, with several, usually three, stones, as in Sambucus.
In Sambucus and Viburnum the small See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white flowers are massed in heads; See also:honey is secreted at the See also:base of the styles and, the tube of the flower being very See also:short, is exposed to the visits of flies and See also:insects with short probosces. The flowers of Lonicera, which have a See also:long tube, open in the evening, when they are sweet-scented and are visited by See also:hawk-moths. The order contains about 250 See also:species, chiefly natives of the north temperate See also:zone and the mountains of the tropics. Several genera afford ornamental plants; such are Lonicera, erect shrubs or twiners with long-tubed white, yellow or red flowers; Symphoricarpus, a North See also:American See also:shrub, with small whitish pendulous flowers and white berries; Diervilla (also known as Weigelia), and Viburnum, including V. Opulus, guelder rose, in the cultivated forms of which the corolla has become enlarged at the expense of the essential See also:organs and the flowers are neuter.
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