. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. 562 Order 95.—GrENTIANACE-^. high, paniculate above. Leaves 1—2f by ^—If entire. Flowers rose-color, not inelegant. Jl.—The use of this nauseous and poisonous weed has become almost universal, and illustrates the despotic power of habit. Sir Walter Raleigh has the honor of first introducing the practice of smoking into England, more than 200 years ago, and in his house at Islington, is still to be seen a shield bearing his a
. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. 562 Order 95.—GrENTIANACE-^. high, paniculate above. Leaves 1—2f by ^—If entire. Flowers rose-color, not inelegant. Jl.—The use of this nauseous and poisonous weed has become almost universal, and illustrates the despotic power of habit. Sir Walter Raleigh has the honor of first introducing the practice of smoking into England, more than 200 years ago, and in his house at Islington, is still to be seen a shield bearing his arms, with a tobacco-plant at the top. (Loudon.) 3 N. longiflora Cav. "With long, spreading branches; Ivs. acuminate, radical ovate-lanceolate, short-petioled, cordate-lanceolate, sessile; fls. lateral, soUtary, pedicellate, arranged in a simple terminal raceme; cor. tube filiform, very pubes- cent, 5 times longer than the calyx, segments lance-ovate, acute.—Gardens South. Cor, white, variegated with purple and yellow. 13. FABIANA imbricata Ruiz. & Pav. is a fine little shrub resembling a Tamarix, with small (6" long) ovate Ivs. covering the numerous branches and small violet-white fls, | ChiU. Order XCV. GENTIANACE^ Gentianworts. Serbs smooth, with a colorless, bitter juice, with entire, exstipulate leaves. Flow- ers regular, mostly centrifugal in inflorescence and convolute in the bud. Calyx per- sistent; corolla withering, its lobes alternate with Vhq stamens. Ovary free, l-celled with 2, more or less projecting par- \ ietal placentae. Fruit a 2-valved, [ septicidal, oo-seeded capsule, rare- ly baccate. Seeds with a minute, straight embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen- Genera 60, species 450, found in every part of the world. Properties,—An intensely bitter prin* ciple called gentianine pervades the whole order without exception, residing in every part, rendering them tonic and febrifugal. The gentian of the shops is most commonly the product of Gen
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