Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . the calabash-nutmeg. 745. Ord. MjTisticacefC {Nutmeg Family), consisting of a few tropi-cal trees (which bear nutmegs), differs from Anonacea? in havin°*monoecious or dioecious and apetalous flowers, &c. The aril and thealbumen of the seeds are fine aromatics. The common nutmeg isthe seed of Myristica moschata (a native of the Moluccas) deprivedof the testa: mace is the aril of the same species. The ruminatedalbumen is
Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . the calabash-nutmeg. 745. Ord. MjTisticacefC {Nutmeg Family), consisting of a few tropi-cal trees (which bear nutmegs), differs from Anonacea? in havin°*monoecious or dioecious and apetalous flowers, &c. The aril and thealbumen of the seeds are fine aromatics. The common nutmeg isthe seed of Myristica moschata (a native of the Moluccas) deprivedof the testa: mace is the aril of the same species. The ruminatedalbumen is nearly peculiar to this family and the Anonaceas. 746. Ord. MenispermacetE {Moonseed Family). Climbing or twin-ing shrubby plants, with alternate and simple palmately-veined leaves,destitute of stipules; and small flowers in racemes or panicles,mostly dioecious, the parts commonly in two or more rows of threeor four each. Calyx of three to twelve sepals, in one to three rows,deciduous. Petals as many as the sepals or fewer, small, or some-times wanting in the pistillate flowers. Stamens as many as thepetals, and opposite them, or two to four times as many: anthers. often four-celled. Carpels usually several, but only one or two ofthem commonly fructify, at first straight, but during their growth FIG. 659. Staminate flower of Menispermum Canadense. 660. A stamen, with its four-lobed anther. 661. A pistillate flower of the same. 662. A solitary fruit. 663. Two drupeson the same receptacle, cut across ; one through the pulpy exocarp only, the other throughthe bony endocarp and seed. 664. A drupe divided vertically (the embryo here is turned thewrong way). 665. The seed, and, 666, the coiled embryo detached. 384 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. often curved into a ring; in fruit becoming berries or drupes. Seedssolitary, filling the cavity of the bony endocarp: embryo large,curved or coiled in the thin fleshy albumen. — Menispermum, orMoonseed (Fig. 413, 414, 659-666), Coccu
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