. Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology. Botany. 384 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. often curved into a ring; in fruit becoming berries or drupes. Seeds solitary, filling the cavity of the bony endocarp: embrj'o large, curved or coiled in the thin fleshy albumen. â Menispermum, or Moonseed (Fig. 413, 414, 659 â 666), Cocculus. The roots are bitter and tonic (e. g. Colombo Root of the materia medica) ; but the fruit is often narcotic and acrid ; as, for instance, the very poisonous Cocculus Indicus of the shops, once used for rendering malt liquors mor
. Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology. Botany. 384 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. often curved into a ring; in fruit becoming berries or drupes. Seeds solitary, filling the cavity of the bony endocarp: embrj'o large, curved or coiled in the thin fleshy albumen. â Menispermum, or Moonseed (Fig. 413, 414, 659 â 666), Cocculus. The roots are bitter and tonic (e. g. Colombo Root of the materia medica) ; but the fruit is often narcotic and acrid ; as, for instance, the very poisonous Cocculus Indicus of the shops, once used for rendering malt liquors more intoxicating, and for stupefying fishes. 747. Ol'd. Berberidacese {Barherry Family). Herbs or shnibs, â with a watery juice ; the leaves alternate, compound or divided, usu- ally without stipules. Flowers perfect. Calyx of three to nine sepals, imbricated in one to several rows, often colored. Petals as. many as the sepals and in two sets, or twice as many, often with a pore, spur, or glandular appendage at the base. Stamens equal in FIG 668. A shoot of Berberig vulgaris, the common Barberry. 669. A flowering brancii from the axil of one of its leaves or spines, the following year. 670. An expanded flower. 671 A petal, nectariferous near the base. 672. A stamen ; the anther opening by uplifted valves. 673. Cross-section of a young fruit. 674 Vertical section; the seeds attached at the base. 675. Vertical section of a seed enlarged, showing the large embryo with foliaceous cotyledons and a taper radicle, surrounded by albumen. 676. The embryo 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York [etc. ] Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co.
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