775 illustrations of flowers and shrubs including: calla lily, camphor, candlewood, capsicum, carnation, cashew, castor-oil plant, catchfly, catkin, catnip, celandine, chamomile, checkerberry, chickweed, chicory, cinnamon, cinquefoil, cloudberry, clove, clover, cocoa, coffee, colocasia, comfrey, coreopsis, coriander, cornflower, cotton, cowbane, cowslip, crassula, creeper, crocus, and crowfoot.
The investing sheaths or dead leaf-bases striped off. The faint cross-lines represent the scars, where…
Corm of Cyclamen. Roots from lower face, leaf-stalks and flower stalks from the upper.
Indian Corn or Maize is a well known species of cereal. It is used as food and is gathered in October…
It is an annual plant growing to 40-90 cm tall, with grey-green branched stems. The leaves are lanceolate,…
An illustration of a disk-floret of the cornflower. Centaurea cyanus ('Cornflower, Bachelor's button,…
An illustration of the inflorescence of the cornflower. Centaurea cyanus ('Cornflower, Bachelor's button,…
An illustration of a ray-floret of the cornflower. Centaurea cyanus ('Cornflower, Bachelor's button,…
Cornus alternifolia is a variety of dogwood that grows twenty five feet tall. The fruit of the shrub…
Pictured are winter shoots of cornus baileyi. The shoots show the opposite buds and terminal flower…
Cornus baileyi is an erect shrub with reddish branches. It is native from Pennsylvania to Minnesota…
The common name of cornus florida is flowering dogwood. The shrub grows ten to fifteen feet tall and…
Cornus kousa is a shrub that grows twenty feet tall. The flowers are creamy white and very showy. The…
The common name of cornus mas is Cornelian cherry. The shrub grows twenty feet tall. The fruit is oblong,…
The common name of cornus stolonifera is red-osier dogwood. The shrub grows eight feet tall and usually…
The common name of coronilla emerus is scorpion senna. It is a dense, symmetrical shrub that grows three…
The common name of coronilla varia is crown vetch. It is a straggling or ascending smooth herb growing…
This illustration shows the colored leaves of 'Cornus florida', surrounding the small flowers and rendering…
Correa alba is a compact, much branched shrub that grows three to four feet tall. The flowers are white…
A plant belonging to a genus of hairy herbs, one of over 300 species in the Stachys.
Corydalis nobilis is an erect perennial. The flowers are white, tipped with yellow and a dark purple…
Illustrated are the pistillate flowers of corylus rostrata. They are small, scaly buds with only the…
Corylus rostrata is a variety of hazel or filbert. The shrub grows two to six feet tall. The branches…
"Corymb.--A bunch of flowers where the foot-stalks proceed from different parts of the principal axis,…
Cosmos bipinnatus is an annual that grows seven to ten feet tall. The flowers are white, pink, or crimson.…
Cosmos sulphureus grows four to seven feet tall. The flowers are two to three inches across and are…
The common name of cotinus coggygria is smoke tree. It is a spreading, dense shrub that grows to fifteen…
Cotoneaster horizontalis is a low shrub with almost horizontal branches. The flowers are erect and pink.…
Cotoneaster hupehensis is a shrub that grows five feet tall and has slender, spreading branches. The…
A shrubby plant with seeds developing in capsules. Seeds are surrounded by a fluffy type of fiber that…
Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant. The fiber is often spun into…
An illustration of a ripe cotton capsule after dehiscence. Dehiscence is the spontaneous opening at…
"Cotton is a vegetable hair or filament constituting the wing of the seed of the different species of…
"Cotton is a vegetable hair or filament constituting the wing of the seed of the different species of…
The cotton plant is a shrub that produces a downy fiber, called cotton. This material is then woven…
An illustration of a cotton plant. Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows around the seeds of the…
"Cotton Plant, which was regularly exported in small quantities from the South."—E. Benjamin Andrews,…
"Cotton is a vegetable hair or filament constituting the wing of the seed of the different species of…
"Cotton is a downy substance produced on the seeds of he cotton plant, Gossypium, which is herbaceous,…
An early, rapid fruiting, productive type of cotton plant, with low fruit limbs, short joints and continuous…
A late, slow fruiting, unproductive type of cotton plant, with high fruit limbs and long joints. Leaves…
An illustration of a cotton seed. Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows around the seeds of the…
A plant of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce.
Cotyledon secunda is stemless and the leaves grow in a rosette. The flowers grow in a one sided, recurved…
"Moquileae canomensis. 1. a flower; 2. an ovary; 3. a perpendicular section of the last; 4. a fruit;…