The plant is also known as the Five-leaved Ivy, is a rapid grower, and a favourite for covering unsightly walls.
A fine, variegated, large-leaved evergreen, very suitable for covering a low wall, or for conservatory decoration.
Of the white fruit the White Dutch and the Cut-leaved White are the leaders.
The Three-Leaved Gillenia is a hardy herbaceous perennial which is very useful as a cut flower for the decoration of vases, etc.
And the creeping, round-leaved houstonia was here, with a superfluity of a weedy blue sage (Salvia lyrata).
Here and there the graceful palm-like tassel of a young long-leaved pine rises above the tall winter-killed grass.
Remembering his past experiences with the white-leaved puka-puka, he coaxed Audrey to lend him a curtain she was netting for the window of her own bedroom.
Rather slender; undulate margin; vine around the neck; body with broad band of three-leaved flowers.
Without neck; a broad and true meander band around the middle, with three-leaved flower above and below on each coil.
Then follow deciduous broad-leaved forests, and finally firs, spruces and larches.
Around the great lakes on sandy soils the broad-leaved forest gives way to pines.
Apart from a limited number of broad-leaved species, the conifers have become the most important timber trees in the economy of man.
In North America the distribution is as follows: Tropical vegetation is found in south Florida, while in north Florida it changes into a subtropical vegetation consisting of evergreen broad-leaved species with pines on sandy soils.
The heath is almost hidden, in places, by the large white flowers and trailing stems of the sage-leaved Cistus.
Though the ivy-leaved crowfoot is generally regarded as a species, I think it is only a variety of the one we are now looking at.
The five-leaved rose indicated the love of GOD for Man, as set forth by His five wounds; while the eight-leaved typified that of the believer for the Lord.
The Ash-leaved Berberries were formed into a separate genus called Mahonia by Nuttall; and this genus has been adopted by Professor de Candolle, and other botanists.
The five-leaved Ivy, or Virginian Creeper (Ampelopsis hederacea), differs very little from the Vine in the botanical construction of its flowers.
Salix caprea, the great round-leaved Sallow or Palm Willow, is perhaps the handsomest species, from the great abundance and golden hue of its flowers.
The natural order Ampelideae contains several genera, but of these only the Vine and the five-leaved Ivy are common in British gardens.
Gnidia, a greenhouse plant, has little scales in the mouth of the calyx; and Pimelea has the flowers in heads, surrounded by a four-leaved involucre.
The Ash-leaved Maple is now made into a separate genus, and is called Negundo fraxinifolia.
The only needle-leaved trees belonging to Taxineae belong to the genus Taxus, the Yew, unless we separate from it the new genus Torryea.
The common dark-leaved ivy abounds, and is found growing wild on road-walls, and along the roadsides in profusion.
It is roofless, of course, and has walls sixteen feet thick at the bottom; half the surface is covered with dark-leaved ivy, precisely such as is grown in our houses.
The ground is green with tiny baby plants of prickly cleavers and ivy-leaved veronica.
One sharp brown head, and then another, with beady black eyes as keen as a beagle’s, peeped forth from the miniature jungle of brake and cross-leaved heath in the bank beside us.
FEW English flowers are better known than the harebell; yet I wonder what proportion of all those who love it well in its summer beauty would be able to account for its botanical name of Round-leaved Campanula.
Or look once more at the pretty climbing ivy-leaved geranium or pelargonium, so commonly grown in windows.
A mass of shrubs, full-leaved evergreens, laurel and dense yew, intervened between me and what I followed.
An eminence strewn with tumbled heaps of blackish rock, and among them a few struggling, dark-leaved bushes; that was its appearance.
Soon its slopes were climbed, and there among the dark-leaved bushes and the rocks the black soldiers butchered them, every one.
Probably more than 90 per cent of the nitrogen absorbed by green-leaved plants from the soil is absorbed as nitrates.
Generally speaking, however, it may be said of all green-leaved plants, that the chief source of their carbon is the carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere.
One plant which grows here, the Willow-leaved Inula (I.
Large-leaved trees have longer internodes than those with small leaves.
Myriophyllum (in fact, any small- leaved water plant with rather crowded foliage).
