. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. CXLVII. Fig. CXLV Herbaceous plants or under-shinibs, with a ten-dency to climb, and sometimes having fleshy scarcely woody. Leaves reticulated. Flowers^ or ? ^ ^. Calyx and corolla both ahke, free,G-pai-ted. Stamens 6, inserted into the perianthnear the base ; seldom hypogjTious. Ovary 3-celled,the cells 1- or many-seeded ; style usually trifid ;stigmas 3 ; ovules orthotropal. Fruit a roundishberry. Albumen between fleshy and cartilaginous ;embryo very small, usua
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. CXLVII. Fig. CXLV Herbaceous plants or under-shinibs, with a ten-dency to climb, and sometimes having fleshy scarcely woody. Leaves reticulated. Flowers^ or ? ^ ^. Calyx and corolla both ahke, free,G-pai-ted. Stamens 6, inserted into the perianthnear the base ; seldom hypogjTious. Ovary 3-celled,the cells 1- or many-seeded ; style usually trifid ;stigmas 3 ; ovules orthotropal. Fruit a roundishberry. Albumen between fleshy and cartilaginous ;embryo very small, usually distant from the hilum. From what has been already said in a previouspage, it is ob\aous that the Order of Sarsaparillas, asI understand it, is very different from that of other botanists. Its nearest affinities arewith Lilies on the one hand, from which its reticulated leaves and quasi-exogenousrhizomes distinguish it, and on the other with Parids, whose tripetaloideous flowersafford a clear mark of distinction. The species are fomid in small quantities in most parts of the world, especially in thetempeiate
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