. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. for example, on the one haiul, thesingular Leucoleena rotundifolia,with its gi-eat white 3-lobed plates surrounduig the flowei-s,and on the other the not less singular Bolax glebaria, whose tufts of entangled .shootsare described as resembling haystacks, and which DUrviUe tells us^iiglUdeceive themost Fig. DX.—Athamanta cenariaefolia. 1. a separate flower, with hairy petals : 2. a petal by itself • 3. nripe fruit with the two carpels or mericarps separating from the doub
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. for example, on the one haiul, thesingular Leucoleena rotundifolia,with its gi-eat white 3-lobed plates surrounduig the flowei-s,and on the other the not less singular Bolax glebaria, whose tufts of entangled .shootsare described as resembling haystacks, and which DUrviUe tells us^iiglUdeceive themost Fig. DX.—Athamanta cenariaefolia. 1. a separate flower, with hairy petals : 2. a petal by itself • 3. nripe fruit with the two carpels or mericarps separating from the double can>opod or axis ; 4. a seea ae-prived of its integiiments, and divided vertically, so as to show the position of the embrjo. Fig. DXI.—Flower of Angelica. 774 APIACEiE. [Epigynous Exogens. experienced eye, so much are they at variance with the usual structure of Umbellifers In all these cases, however, the very pecuharcondition of the flower and fruit is abundantlysufficient to mark the Order. Indeed we haveno knowledge of any one group so entirely freefrom deviations from the typical structure, ex-. Fig. DXII.
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