The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . nging to the tribeAlsinecc, consisting of small herbs, distin-guished from the others of the tribe byhaving the styles generally three; the cap-sule opening by twice as many valves asthere are styles, at last splitting down tothe base; the seeds without an appendage ;and the petals not cleft into two species are extensively distributed;three occur wild in Britain: A. serpylli-folia, which is a common annual plant,with the petals not exceeding the calyx.
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . nging to the tribeAlsinecc, consisting of small herbs, distin-guished from the others of the tribe byhaving the styles generally three; the cap-sule opening by twice as many valves asthere are styles, at last splitting down tothe base; the seeds without an appendage ;and the petals not cleft into two species are extensively distributed;three occur wild in Britain: A. serpylli-folia, which is a common annual plant,with the petals not exceeding the authors consider we have two spe-cies included under this name, and sepa-rate from the common form, A. leptoclaclos,which is a much more slender plant, withsofter capsules. A. ciliata, a perennialfound on Ben Bulben, in the West of Ire-land, has the petals much longer than thecalyx, and the leaves fringed with norvegica, also a perennial, from theOrkney and Shetland Islands, is closelyallied to the last, but the leaves are notfringed. A. trinervia is sometimes placed inthe genus Mochringia, as the seeds have an. CALDERA 89 ®t)e STrcaSurj) of 23otanj). [ARIL appendage: it, however, accords ill withthe other species of that genus. [J. T. S.] AREOLATE. Divided off into distinctspaces usually more or less angular. Theskin of a plant is ARETHPSA bulbosa is a small swampplant, belonging to the order of orchids,, with a one-leaved scape, terminated by ai single very handsome rosy-purple sweet-scented flower. It is found exclusively in! Xorth America, and is the only species of| its genus. Other supposed species belongj to Pogonia. ARGALOP. (Ft.) Paliurus A genus of plants belong-I ing to the family of Sapotacece. The calyx has ten sepals, in two rows; the; throat of the corolla has five scales orabortive stamens, alternating with thei five fertile stamens; anthers opening out-wardly; style awl-shaped. A. Sideroxylon! is the Argan tree of Mo
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