. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 416. Young female flower. Fig. 417. Long. sect, of young female flower. III. AMMANNIA SERIES. Ammannia ^ (fig. 418-424) has given its name to a small series of this family, distinguished (somewhat artificially) by the smallness of their flowers, concave receptacle, generally smooth externally, petals none or scarcely perceptible and by their organs of vegetation. They are small herbs, often aquatic, having ordinarily the habit of Portulaca, or Gallitriche, or Myriophyllum, etc. In an indigenous species commonly known as Peplis^ Portula* (fig. 418,
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 416. Young female flower. Fig. 417. Long. sect, of young female flower. III. AMMANNIA SERIES. Ammannia ^ (fig. 418-424) has given its name to a small series of this family, distinguished (somewhat artificially) by the smallness of their flowers, concave receptacle, generally smooth externally, petals none or scarcely perceptible and by their organs of vegetation. They are small herbs, often aquatic, having ordinarily the habit of Portulaca, or Gallitriche, or Myriophyllum, etc. In an indigenous species commonly known as Peplis^ Portula* (fig. 418, 419) the flowers are pentamerous or more generally hexamerous. The sub- 1 p. mauritianum. — Fropiera mauritiaiia Hook. f. loc. eit. 2 HousT. ex L. Gen. n. 155.—Abans. Fam. des Fl. ii. 234.—J. Gen. 333.—Lamk. Bict. i. 130; Suppl. i. 328; III. t. 77.—DC. Mem. Genev. iii. p. ii. 79; Prochr. iii. 77.—Endi. Gen. n. 6146.— B. H. Om. 776, n. 1.—Baker, Fl. Maurit. 99.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 354 (incl.: Amanella MiQ. Ameletia DC. Cornelia Arduin. C'lyptotkeca Bl. Didiplis Eapin. Ditheea Wight and Aen. Middendorjia Tbautt. Nimmoia Wight, Peplis L. Botala L. Sellowia Roth. Sufrenia Tritheea Wight and Abn. WinterWa Speeng.). 3 L. Gen. n. 446.—J. Gen. 333.—Schkuhr. Handb. t. 99.—Gjertn. Fniet. i. 237, t. 51. DC. Prodr. Hi. 76.—Endl. Gen. n. 6144.—B. H. Gin. 776, n. 2.—H. Bn. Bull. Soe. Lmn. Par. 87. " L. Spec. 474.—DC. Prodr. iii. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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