Open AccessXXI. An account of a species of ophris, supposed to be the plant, which is mentioned by Gronovius in the Flora Virginica, p. 185, under the name of ophris scapo nudo foliis radicalibus ovato-oblongis, dimidii scapi longitudine: By George Dionysius Ehret, F. R. S.
Publication year - 1763
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9223
pISSN - 0261-0523
DOI - 10.1098/rstl.1763.0021
Subject(s) - flora (microbiology) , botany , biology , root (linguistics) , envelope (radar) , philosophy , paleontology , engineering , linguistics , bacteria , telecommunications , radar
The root of this plant, from which many fleshy fibres branch, is composed of the foot stalks of the leaves, which envelope each other in such a manner, that they form a kind of bulbous root.