. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Plants herbaceous, annual or perennial, sometimes suffruticose. Lvs. usually radical, otherwise mostly opposite. Stipules 0. FIs. on scapes and in umbels or variously arranged in the axils of ^ the 5 (rarely 4)-clcft, inferior, regular, 5 (rarely 4)-rletl, inserted on the lube of the corolla, as many as its lobes and opposite to
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Plants herbaceous, annual or perennial, sometimes suffruticose. Lvs. usually radical, otherwise mostly opposite. Stipules 0. FIs. on scapes and in umbels or variously arranged in the axils of ^ the 5 (rarely 4)-clcft, inferior, regular, 5 (rarely 4)-rletl, inserted on the lube of the corolla, as many as its lobes and opposite to 1-celled, with a free, central placenta. Style and Stigma —Capsule many-seeded, the fleshy placenta attached only to the base of the cell. Genera 29, species 215, common in the northern temperateregions, growing in swamps, groves, by rivulets and often amotigthe snow of cloud-capr»ed mountains. Many are beautiful, andhii-hly prized in culture. Properties unimportant. FIG. 49,—1. Primula Mistassinicn. 2. A flower laid open, show- ^ing the 5 stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla. 4. Plan of i?the flower. 6. Ovary and caJyx. 5. Vertical section of the ovary,showing the free central 83 384 LXXXII. PRIMULACE^. Primula. Conspectus of the Genera. fi 7-cleft. Leaves in one whorl. . TrientcUis. 4 < 5-clelt. Flowers paniculate. . Sa7nolus. 10 Corolla white, ( 4-clelt. Plants 2 inches hiffh. . \ Stamens 6. Racemes a-xillary. . Nainnburg-ia. 6 Corolla yellow. I Stamens 5 Lysimachm. 7 Corolla scarlet. Plant prostrate. Fls. solitary, axillary. Anagallis. 8 J undivided. Corolla wanting^, colored, white Glaux. 5 ( caullne, ( pectinate-pinnatifid, submersed in water Hottonia. 1 ?? ^ Corolla segments spreading P? imula. 2 Leaves ( all radical. Scape umbellate. {Corolla segments reflexed Dodecatheon. 3 1. HOTTONIA. In honor of Peter Hotton, professor in the University of Leyden, died 1709. Calyx 5-parted ; cor. salver-form, with a short
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