. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. Uatis maritima. S plant. B, maritiina. S catkin
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. Uatis maritima. S plant. B, maritiina. S catkin. Balls. 9 plant. Satis. 9 catkin (mag.).. Batis. Mower <? -sVith (mag.). Balls. 9 spike cut vertically (mag.). g Balis. Calyx (mag.). Balls. Fruit cut transversely (mag.). Balis. Seed (magO. Balis. Embryo (mag.). Littoral saline greyish-coloured plants. Stems branched, straggling, weak. Leaves opposite, oblong-linear or obovate-oblong, sessile or sub-sessile, flat above, convex below, fleshy, exstipulate. Flowbes dioecious, arranged in 4 rows, in conical oblong spikes, opposite, sessile, green.— $: Flowers distinct; bracts cochleariform, obtuse or very shortly acuminate, concave, entire, persistent, close together. Calyx membranous, campanulate, or in a compressed cup, truncate, bilabiate. Petals 4, claws united; limb rhomboidal. Stamens 4, alternate with the petals, and pro- jecting ; filaments subulate, glabrous; anthers 2-celled, introrse, oblong, didymous, incumbent, versatile, dehiscence longitudinal. Ovaet rudimentary or 0. — ? : Floweks imited into a fleshy spike; bracts as in the $, deciduous, the 2 lower united. Caltx and coeolla 0. Ovaries 8-12, coherent, and adherent to the base of the bracts, 4-celled ; style 0 ; stigma capitate, sub-bilobed ; ovules solitary, erect, anatro- pous; pericarps 4-celled, united, and forming a fleshy ovoid conical fruit; endocarp. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
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