The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . posite, petiolate, pale beneath, ovate,acute, entire, and two or three inches long, with one long nerve; thejloioers stand on cymose racemes, lateral and terminal; always longerthan the leaves, lax, nodding and few flowered; the bracts areminute, acute, on the peduncles; the calyx is short, five-cleft
The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . posite, petiolate, pale beneath, ovate,acute, entire, and two or three inches long, with one long nerve; thejloioers stand on cymose racemes, lateral and terminal; always longerthan the leaves, lax, nodding and few flowered; the bracts areminute, acute, on the peduncles; the calyx is short, five-cleft andacute; the corolla is white, tinged with red, similar to a little bell,and divided into five spreading acute segments at the top ; stamensfive with short filaments; anthers conniventarrow-shaped, coheringwith the stegyne or singular body covering and concealing the pistils(mistaken for a stigma by many botanists), this is thick and round ;there are five glandular corpuscles, (called nectaries by some) alter-nate with the stigma; there are two ovate concealed pistils and twosessile stigmas ; fruit a pair of follicles, slender, linear, acute, droop-ing, cylindrical; seed numerous, oblong, embricate, seated on acentral receptacle or spermophore, and crowned by a long down. Vol. iv.— J^fuK//^?MmyJ^mal^t^^ .^z^-Oum^ f/iy. NAT. ORDER. 73 All the plants in this order are very natural. The structure ofthe anthers and stigmas easily distinguish them from Asckjnadece, towhich they are more nearly allied than to any other. The orderSlrichnacccc is distinguished from this in the peltate seeds. Theorder is also closely allied to the 7?(timfe«, but is easily distinguishedfrom it, in the want of interpetiolar stipulas, and in the superiorovarium, «S;c. We here turn from the description of plants endued with mild andagreeable properties, and fragrant flowers, and often bearing food forman, to others, (though of themselves apparently harmless) whichare classed among the mo
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