. A manual of botany. Botany. DICOTYLEDONES—MONOCHLAMYDE^ 251 Tourn.; Parietaria, Tourn. The order contains more than 300 species. Properties and Uses.—Chiefly remarkable for yielding valu- able fibres, and for the acrid stinging juice contained in their glands. Order 33. Moraoe^, the Mulberry Order.—Character.— Trees or shrubs with a milky juice. Leaves with large stipules. Flowers unisexual, in heads, spikes, or catkins. Male flowers with a 8—4-partite calyx, or achlamydeous. 8ta/>nens 3—4, perigynous, and opposite the segments of the calyx; anthers usually inflexed. Female flowers with 3
. A manual of botany. Botany. DICOTYLEDONES—MONOCHLAMYDE^ 251 Tourn.; Parietaria, Tourn. The order contains more than 300 species. Properties and Uses.—Chiefly remarkable for yielding valu- able fibres, and for the acrid stinging juice contained in their glands. Order 33. Moraoe^, the Mulberry Order.—Character.— Trees or shrubs with a milky juice. Leaves with large stipules. Flowers unisexual, in heads, spikes, or catkins. Male flowers with a 8—4-partite calyx, or achlamydeous. 8ta/>nens 3—4, perigynous, and opposite the segments of the calyx; anthers usually inflexed. Female flowers with 3—5 sepals. Ovary superior 1—2-celled. Fruit a sorosis or syconus. Seed solitary, pendulous ; etribryo hooked in fleshy albumen, and with a supe- rior radicle. Distribution amd Numbers.—They are natives of both hemi- spheres, and occur in temperate and tropical climates. Illustra- Fia. 1008. Pm. 1009. tive Genera :—Morus, Tourn. ; Dorstenia, Plum. There are over 200 species. Properties a/nd Uses.—The milky juice of some species pos- sesses acrid and poisonous pro- perties, while in others it is bland, and may be taken as a ^tg, ioo8. Male flower of tlie Black bfivprnm Ernm thp milkv iniee Mulberry (^Morus nigra). Fvj. Deverage. r rom me miuiy j uii,t; 1009. Vertical section of the ovary of some caoutchouc or India- of the female flower of tbe same. rubber is obtained. The inner bark of other species supplies fibres. Some possess stimulant, sudorific, tonic, or astringent properties. Many yield edible fruits, while the seeds generally of the plants of this order are wholesome. Order Z4l. Cannabinaoe^, the Hemp Order.—Character. —Bough herbs, erect or twining, with a watery juice. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple or compound, stipulate, often glandular. Flowers small, unisexual, dioecious. Male flowers in racemes or panicles. Calyx scaly, imbricate. Sta/mens 5, op- posite the sepals; filaments filiform. Female flowers in spikes or strobiles, each flow
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