A and D include twenty ligneous species out of forty-nine, that is about forty-one per cent.
The rapidity of the phenomena of vegetation--whence often results the quality of ligneous or herbaceous plants, and of perennial, biennial, or annual.
In travelling rapidly, even within the tropics, where the flowering of the ligneous plants is of such long duration, scarcely one-eighth of the trees can be seen furnishing the essential parts of fructification.
Within the tropics, the bertholletia forms in less than fifty or sixty days a pericarp, the ligneous part of which is half an inch thick, and which it is difficult to saw with the sharpest instruments.
They have all strength enough to break the ligneous tegument of the seed; they get out the kernel, and carry it to the tops of the trees.
Many seeds, from the decomposition of the oil contained in the cotyledons, lose the faculty of germination before the rainy season, in which the ligneous integument of the pericarp opens by the effect of putrefaction.
Experiments made at San Carlos have shown how rare it is to succeed in causing the bertholletia to germinate, on account of its ligneous pericarp, and the oil contained in its nut which so readily becomes rancid.
The list of the sites that suit her would almost form a complete catalogue of the ligneous flora.
Everywhere else is the ligneous fence, generally too hard and thick to break through.
The native dress is made of the bark of trees, smashed with stones, to extract the ligneous parts.
Here the eyes are clearly incompetent; nor could any ordinary fluid assist their operation, for the gum which unites the ligneous particles is indissoluble in aqueous menstrua.
All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.
But black mould is the result of a decomposition of vegetable substances, in which the ligneous fibre is carbonized, and mixed with earth.
Take a Cereus peruvianus of about the same diameter as that of the base of the Melocactus, cut off the head of the former, but not so low as to come upon the hard, ligneous axis, and then pare off the hard epidermis and ribs for about 1 in.
In these different localities, should be procured not only specimens of wood from large trees, but the principal stalks of shrubs and of the great ligneous plants which never obtain the same size in our climate.
But among the dicotyledonous vegetables there is none that merit the attention of naturalists as the creepingligneous plants known as so much lianes.
He discovered that the cortex of the intumescence is the seat of its irritability: for upon wholly removing the bark, so as to expose the ligneous substance, the petiole was found to have been rendered motionless.
I have already mentioned that Dutrochet discovered that the ligneous fibre is the channel, along which an impression is conveyed from one part to another.
The bundles of ligneousfibres thus detached are moistened before being used, with a glutinous liquid, which causes them to adhere together, and are then kneaded into a sort of paste, or papier mache.
The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength.
Defn: To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.
Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.
A chemical solution of flax therefore would prove for some purposes undesirable, owing to the presence of this ligneous matter.
A chemical solution of cotton which is destitute of ligneous matter will give a chemically pure solution.
Of the mosses, some Hepaticas formed a humble but elegant and lively vegetation alongside the terrestrial and frequently ligneous plants which we have noted.
To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.
These measures, I believe, include the entire ligneousproduct of the tree, exclusive of the roots, and express the actual solid contents.
In ligneous character, one of these almost precisely resembles the grain of the extant beech, and this specimen was wormeaten before it was converted into silex.
Whitman, in times past, that the neighborhood of Dayton (Nevada) betrayed no present or previous manifestations of a ligneous foundation, and that hence I had no confidence in his lauded coal mines.
My theory has ever been that coal is a ligneous formation.
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