. Analytical class-book of botany : designed for academies and private students. Plants. Kg. 3. Order III.—Anonaceae. Trees, or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire. Stipules none. Sepals 3. Petals 6, in two series, of a dull color. Stamens inde- finite, hypogynous, with short filaments and extrorse anthers. Ovaries usually numerous, closely packed together, sometimes co- hering in a pulpy mass. Style short, or none. Stigmas simple. Carpels 1-seeded. Seeds anatropous. A chiefly tropical order, represented in the United States by several species of Asimina (Fapaw), and the delicious Custard-apples
. Analytical class-book of botany : designed for academies and private students. Plants. Kg. 3. Order III.—Anonaceae. Trees, or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire. Stipules none. Sepals 3. Petals 6, in two series, of a dull color. Stamens inde- finite, hypogynous, with short filaments and extrorse anthers. Ovaries usually numerous, closely packed together, sometimes co- hering in a pulpy mass. Style short, or none. Stigmas simple. Carpels 1-seeded. Seeds anatropous. A chiefly tropical order, represented in the United States by several species of Asimina (Fapaw), and the delicious Custard-apples of the East and "West Indies, also belong here. Order IV.—MenispermaceEe. Climbing, or twining, usually more or less shrubby plants. Leaves alternate, entire. Stipules none. Flowers small, arranged in panicles, or racemes, usually dioecious, but never perfect. Sepals 4—12 in 1—3 rows; deciduous. Petals 1—8; usually as many as the sepals; hypogynous, rarely wanting, or united. Stamens opposite the petals, and equalling them in number, or else 2—4 times as many. Anthers often 4-celled. Ovaries Fig. 1. usually several, when in flower, but in fruit mostly reduced to 1 or 2. Fruit, a berry, or drupe. Embryo large, curved, in- cluded in the fleshy albumen. A small order, mostly tropical. The roots usually possess bitter and tonic properties. The Menispermum {Moonseed\ one species of which yields Co- fumbo, and the Anamirta Cocculus, the Oocculus Indictts of the shops, whose narcotic fruit is extensively used in adulterating malt liquors, are good ex- amples. Order V.—BerberidaceaB. Herbs, or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, or compound, mostly exstipulate. Flowers perfect. Sepals 3—6, arranged in 1 or 2 rows. Petals as many as the sepals, and opposite them; or else twice as many. Stamens definite, as many as the petals, and opposite them; or else twice as many. Anthers extrorse, usually opening by recurved valves, as in fig. 5, Plate XXV. Ovary consisting of a s
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