Pharmaceutical botany - Lighthouse Survival Blog

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Plant Hairs or Teichomes.—Definition; forms; functions 29-30
The Leaf.—Definition; functions; parts; Complete Leaf; sessile; petiolate;
exstipulate; stipulate; structure of blade. Leaf Venation: parallel;
reticulate; pinnately and palmately veined.
Forms of Leaves.—Simple and Compound, (a) General Outline: ovate;
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elliptical; oblong; oblique; orbicular; peltate; filiform; obovate; oblance-
olate; cuneate; spatulate; acerose; deltoid, (b) Apex: acute; acuminate;
obtuse; truncate; mucronate; cuspidate; aristate; emarginate; refuse;
obcordate. (c) Base: cordate; reniform; hastate; auriculate; sagittate,
(d) Margin: entire; serrate; dentate; crenate; repand; sinuate; incised;
runcinate; lobed; cleft; parted; divided. Forms of Compound Leaves . 32-34
Leaf Texture.—Membranous; succulent; scarious; coriaceous 34
Leaf Color.—Variations in color .
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Leaf Surface.—Glabrous; glaucous; pellucid-punctate; scabrous; pubescent;
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villose; sericious; hispid; tomentose; spinose; rugose; verrucose -34-35
Leaf Duration.—Evergreen; deciduous; carducous; fugacious; effect of
climate. .... 35-36
Leaf Insertion.—Definition; radical; cauline; ramal; perfoliate; clasping;
connate-perfoliate; equitant. . . . 36
Phyllotaxy.—Definition; alternate; opposite; verticillate or whorled; fas-
cicled or tufted; law of spiral arrangement; leaf ranks 36-37
Vernation.—Definition; inflexed; conduplicate; circinate; plicate; involute;
revolute . 37
Inflorescence or Anthotaxy.—Determinate, Indeterminate; Mixed; Parts
of Inflorescences; Forms of Determinate and Indeterminate Inflorescences. 3 7-40
Prefloration.—Valvate; vexillary; contorted . . 40-41
The Flower.—Definition; floral parts; distinguishing characteristics; Peri-
gone.
The Calyx.—Definition; parts; physical characteristics; connation; kinds
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and forms; persistence; adnation .
The Corolla.—Definition; physical characteristics; parts; functions; forms
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of Corolla and Perianth 43-44
The Androecium or Stamen System.—Definition; structure; terms denoting
number of stamens in flower; terms denoting connection between stamens;
terms denoting position; terms denoting attachment of another to fila-
ment; dehiscence. Pollen: description; forms .
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The Gynoecium, or Pistil System.—Definition; Gymnospermous and
Angiospermous; parts; the pistil a modified leaf; carpel: dehiscence;
compound pistil; an ovule a transformed bud; position of ovules in ovary;
Gymnospermous and Angiospermous ovules; structure of Angiospermous
ovule; shape of ovule 46-47
The Placenta.—Definition; placental arrangement. 47-48
Pollination.—Definition; Close and Cross Pollination; terms applied to
plants pollinated by various agencies 4S-49
Formation of Male and Female C vmetoviivtes.
Fertilization in Angiosperms.—Process; formation of embryo and endosperm
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