. A manual of the medical botany of North America [microform]. Botany, Medical; Botany; Botanique médicale; Botanique. 130 LECUMINOS/E. Cliaracter of the Order.—Herbs, shruhs, or trees, with alternate, stipu- late, generally compound leaves. Flowers pai)ilionaeeoU8, sometimes regu- lar ; calyx G-parted, the odd segment inferior ; petals 5, the odd one supe- rior ; stamens 10, rarely 5 or indciinite, monadelplious or diadclphous, sometimes distinct, commonly perigyntjus ; ovary simpl(>, 1-cellcd, 1- to mauy-ovuled. Fruit a 1- to many-seeded legume. A very large order of plants,
. A manual of the medical botany of North America [microform]. Botany, Medical; Botany; Botanique médicale; Botanique. 130 LECUMINOS/E. Cliaracter of the Order.—Herbs, shruhs, or trees, with alternate, stipu- late, generally compound leaves. Flowers pai)ilionaeeoU8, sometimes regu- lar ; calyx G-parted, the odd segment inferior ; petals 5, the odd one supe- rior ; stamens 10, rarely 5 or indciinite, monadelplious or diadclphous, sometimes distinct, commonly perigyntjus ; ovary simpl(>, 1-cellcd, 1- to mauy-ovuled. Fruit a 1- to many-seeded legume. A very large order of plants, occurring in all parts of the globe, but most abundantly in the tropics. It has been divided ir^to three sub-orders, namely, I'lipUionaceie, Ca'Holpiiiiea', and Jlimosca:. To the iirst-named sub- order belong nearly all important leguminous plants of temperate regions, and, with the single exception of Castiia—belonging to the sub-order CtMnutpiniac—all North American species of mediciuid importance. PAPILIONACE^. Character of the Sub-Order.—Flowers i)apilionaccous ; sepals 5, more or less Tinited, often unequally so; petals 5, irregular, imbricate, the upper one larger than the others and u"ually enclosing them in the bud ; stamens 10, rarely 5, inserted with the petals, mona- delphous, diadclphous, or sometimes dis- tinct ; when diadelphous, usually Avith nine in one set and one in the other. Ovary nor- mally 1-celled, sometimes becoming 2-celled, or transversely many-celled by development of partitions after tiowering. Flowers per- fect, solitary and axillary, or in spikes, ra- cemes, or panicles. MELILCTUS. —Melilot. Character of the Genii!^.—Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla: petals free from the stamen-tube, deciduous, the keel blunt. Stamens dia- delphous, the ui)per one free. Pods short, straight, thick. 1-or few seeded, indehiscent. Annual or biennial herbs, with trifoliate leaves, and flowers in spiked racemes. Melilotus officinalis Willdenow,— Yelloiv Meli
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