Meanings of compositae in anglès

Mints, gilias, nemophilas, castilleias, and innumerable compositae were so crowded together that, had ninety-nine per cent.

The most characteristic of the newcomers at this elevation above the sea are principally sun-loving gilias, eriogonae, and compositae, and finally forest-trees.

They showed us a plant of the compositae order, twenty feet high (the Eupatorium laevigatum of Lamarck), the rose of Belveria,* (* Brownea racemosa.)

In the Compositae, Cnicus palustris and acaulis are said by Sir J.E.

I was struck with your remark about the Compositae, etc.

Muller, H., on the frequency of visits by insects to the Umbelliferae and Compositae.

I find both sexes wassailing on the flowers, especially the Compositae, the centauries and thistles.

Lactuca sativa (Compositae).-Coveredplants produced some seeds, but the summer was wet and unfavourable.

Senecio cruentus (Compositae).-Quitesterile: see my account of self-sterileplants.

W. charged into the Compositae and Umbelliferae like a hero, and demolished ever so many in grand style.

He is even able to leave the family of the Compositae and to go gleaning more or less everywhere.

Some thornless thistles, a little brush of sapless-looking indigo, and some species of compositæ struggle for a doleful existence.

The plants should be treated in the same manner as the ordinary Asters of the garden or other perennial Compositae.

The largest bush in the island (belonging to the family of Compositae) is scarcely so tall as our gorse.

Owing to other occupations I was able to read only yesterday your paper on the dispersal of the seeds of Compositae.

I now find to my surprise that herons do feed sometimes on {illegible} fruit; and grebes on seeds of Compositae.