Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . ds at the base : the anthers opening by two sets of valves. 1115. Pistil; the ovary divid-ed. 1116 Branch in fruit. 1117. Section of the drupe and seed. EXOGENOUS OR DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 467 volatile oil, to which their qualities are due. Camphor is obtainedfrom Camphora officinarum of Japan, China, &c. Cinnamon is thebark of Cinnamornum Zeylanicum; Cassia bark, of Cinnamomumaromaticum of China. The aromatic bark and
Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . ds at the base : the anthers opening by two sets of valves. 1115. Pistil; the ovary divid-ed. 1116 Branch in fruit. 1117. Section of the drupe and seed. EXOGENOUS OR DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 467 volatile oil, to which their qualities are due. Camphor is obtainedfrom Camphora officinarum of Japan, China, &c. Cinnamon is thebark of Cinnamornum Zeylanicum; Cassia bark, of Cinnamomumaromaticum of China. The aromatic bark and wood and the verymucilaginous leaves of our own Sassafras are well known. OurBenzoin odoriferum is the Spice-wood, or Feverbush. Laurusnobilis is the true Laurel, or Sweet Bay. Persea gratissima, of theWest Indies, bears the edible Avocado pear. 899. Ord. Tliymclacese (Mezereum Family). Shrubby plants, withperfect flowers, and a very tough bark; the tube of the petaloidcalyx being free from the (one-ovuled) ovary ; its lobes imbricatedin aestivation; the pendulous seed destitute of albumen. Stamensoften twice as many as the lobes of the calyx, inserted upon its tube. or throat. — Ex. Daphne and Dirca (Leather-wood, Moose-wood,Wickopy, which is the only North American genus). The toughbark is acrid, or even blistering, and is also useful for cordage. Thereticulated fibres of the liber in the Lagetta or Lace-bark of Jamaicamay be separated into a kind of lace. The berries are more orless deleterious. 900. Ord. EleagMCese (Oleaster Family). Shrubs or small trees,with the flowers more commonly dioecious; readily distinguishedfrom the preceding by having the foliage and shoots covered withscurf, by the ascending albuminous seed, and the persistent tube of FIG. 1118. Flowering branch of Dirca palustris. 1119. A flower. 1120. The same, laidopen and enlarged. 1121. Branch in fruit. 468 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. the calyx, which, although free from the ovary, becomes succul
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