. A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns. Botany. I 22 CARYA Carya Nutt. Juglandaceae. losp. N. Am., the hickory trees, cultivated for their wood, which is very tough and elastic, and for the edible fruit (pecans, like walnuts). Caryocar Linn. Caryocaraceae. 10 sp. trop. Am. The wood is very durable and is used in ship-building. The fruit is a large 4-seeded drupe; the seeds are the Souari- or Butter-nuts of commerce. Caryocaraceae(Rhizoboleae)(EP.; Temstroemiaceae BH.}. Dicots. (Archichl. Parietales). i gen., 15 sp. trop. Am. Trees and shrubs with ternate opp. or alt. 1. with dec
. A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns. Botany. I 22 CARYA Carya Nutt. Juglandaceae. losp. N. Am., the hickory trees, cultivated for their wood, which is very tough and elastic, and for the edible fruit (pecans, like walnuts). Caryocar Linn. Caryocaraceae. 10 sp. trop. Am. The wood is very durable and is used in ship-building. The fruit is a large 4-seeded drupe; the seeds are the Souari- or Butter-nuts of commerce. Caryocaraceae(Rhizoboleae)(EP.; Temstroemiaceae BH.}. Dicots. (Archichl. Parietales). i gen., 15 sp. trop. Am. Trees and shrubs with ternate opp. or alt. 1. with deciduous slips. Fls. $ in racemes. K (5—6), C (5—6), A oo , united into a ring or in 5 bundles. G 4- or 8—2O-loc. with as many styles, i ov. in each loc. Usu. drupe with oily mesocarp, and woody endocarp which splits into 4 meri- carps ; sometimes a leathery schizocarp. Little or no endosp. Genera : Anthodiscus, Caryocar. Caryodendron Karst. Euphorbiaceae (A. n. 2). 2 trop. S. Am. Caryophyllaceae (EP. ; BH. excl. Illecebraceae or Paronychiaceae, and Scleranthaceae]. Dicots. (Archichl. Centrospermae). 60 gen., isoosp. cosmop. (many Brit.), mostly herbs, a few undershrubs, with opp. simple usu. entire 1., often stip. ; the stem often swollen at the nodes, the branchingdich. The infl. usu. term, the main axis and is typically a dich. cyme, but both in the veg. region and in the infl., of the two branches arising at any node, one (that in the axil of /3) tends to out- grow the other and after two or three branchings the weaker one often does not develope at all, so that a cincinnus arises. The whole infi. is very char., and such an one is often called a caryophyllaceous infl. Fls. 5 and reg., but often not isomerous. As a type, the formula of Lychnis may serve : K (5), C 5, A 5 + 5, G (5), with free central plac., uniloc. Ov. usu. ao, in double rows corresponding to the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced f
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