Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . STRATIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. tensively used to adulterate coffee: and the roots of some speciesof Tragopogon (Salsify, Oyster-plant) and Scorzonera are well-known esculents. 849. Ordt lobeliaceflB {Lobelia Family). Herbs or somewhatshrubby plants, often yielding a milky juice, with alternate leavesand perfect flowers. Limb of the adnate calyx five-cleft. Corollairregularly five-lobed, usually appearing bilabiate, cl
Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . STRATIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. tensively used to adulterate coffee: and the roots of some speciesof Tragopogon (Salsify, Oyster-plant) and Scorzonera are well-known esculents. 849. Ordt lobeliaceflB {Lobelia Family). Herbs or somewhatshrubby plants, often yielding a milky juice, with alternate leavesand perfect flowers. Limb of the adnate calyx five-cleft. Corollairregularly five-lobed, usually appearing bilabiate, cleft on one sidenearly or quite to the base. Stamens 5, epigynous, coherent into atube. Stigma fringed. Capsule one - several-celled, albuminous. — Ex. Lobelia. All nareotico-acrid well-known Lobelia inflata (Indian Tobacco) is one of the mostpowerful articles of the materia medica, and most dangerous in thehands of the reckless quacks who use it. — This order is only aform of the next, with irregular flowers. 850. Ord. Campanulaceffi {Campanula Family). Herbs, like thelast, but the juice less acrid, and the corolla regular, campanulate,. usually five-lobed, withering. Stamens five, distinct. Style fur- FIG. 900. Campanula rotundifolia, much reduced in size. 901. Lobelia inflata, reduced insize. 902. A flower, enlarged. 903. The united filaments and anthers enclosing the style ; thocorolla and limb of the calyx cut away. 904. The stigma surrounded by a fringe. 905. Trans-Terse section of a capsule. 90S. Section of a magnified seed, showing the embryo. EXOGENOUS OR DICOTYLEDONOUS FLANTS. 439 nished with collecting hairs. — Ex. Campanula (Bell-flower, Hare-bell). Plants of little known importance to man, except for or-nament. 851. Ortl. EricaceSB (Heath Family). Shrubs, or small trees, rarelyherbs. Flowers regular and symmetrical, or nearly so; the petalssometimes distinct. Stamens mostly distinct, free from the corolla,as many or twice as many
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