. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. S94 Okpsr 15.—POLYGALACH^. OQ tho upper side. Ouarj/superior, compound, with suspended ovules, united stales .md stigmaa. Fruit a 2-ceIlod, 2-seoded pod. Seeds pendulous, furnished with a caruncle. _. „ Genera 20, specie/i 500. The genua Polygaln is very generally distributed. Tlie dthergeneni are mostly limited eftcli to a particular quarter of tlie slobe. Properties t'eiifrnlly hitter, acrid and astringent, with a milky .i
. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. S94 Okpsr 15.—POLYGALACH^. OQ tho upper side. Ouarj/superior, compound, with suspended ovules, united stales .md stigmaa. Fruit a 2-ceIlod, 2-seoded pod. Seeds pendulous, furnished with a caruncle. _. „ Genera 20, specie/i 500. The genua Polygaln is very generally distributed. Tlie dthergeneni are mostly limited eftcli to a particular quarter of tlie slobe. Properties t'eiifrnlly hitter, acrid and astringent, with a milky .iuice in the root, llhatany-root, tho root of Krauieria, use<l lu jncdicinc, yields a deep red color and is used to adulterate port wine. Tho itiore active species of Polygala, as 1*. Sene;in, eanpuinen, purpurea, etc., are emetic, purgative and diu- retic. POLYGALA, Tourn. Milkwort. (Gr. TToXvg, inucli, yoAa, milk ; said to favor the lacteal secretions of animals.) Flowers very irregular. Sepals 5, 2 of them wing-shaped and petaloid; petals 3, cohering by their claws to the filaments, lower one carinate and often crested on the back; stamens 6 or 8, fila- ments united into a split tube; an- thers 1-ccllcd ; capsule obcordate, 2-celled, 2-secded, locidicidal; seed appendaged with a various caruncle at tho hilum.—Bitter herbs in the IT. S. and Can. (elsewhere often shrubby), with simple Ivs. Fls. often of two forms, the subterra- nean apetalous. Perennial 'No. I Biennial Kos. 2, 3 Perennial N(». 4 Spike capitate.—Caruncle double Nos. 5, 7 —Caruncle appears fcimplo. S—.10 ——Spikes solitary', large, liiennial .' Nos. 11, 13 —Spikes numerous, corymbed, small. Biennial Nos. J3,14 Leaves vcrticillato on the stem —Spikes acute, slender Nos. 15, 16 —Spikes obtuse, thick Nos, 17, 18 1 P. pauoifolia L. St. simple, erect, naked below; Ivs. ovate, acute, smooth; terminal fls. large, crested, radical ones apetalous.—A small, handsome plant,
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