. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Candolle is right, it ought to be present at the base of the second leaf also. Thesingular enlargement of the torus, which constitutes so striking a featme in theseplants, is probably a less important circumstance than theu large exalbuminousembryo. Natives of stagnant or quiet waters in the temperate and tropical regions of thenorthern hemisphere, both in the Old and the New World ; most abundant in the EastIndies. They were formerly common in Egypt, but are now extinct in tha
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Candolle is right, it ought to be present at the base of the second leaf also. Thesingular enlargement of the torus, which constitutes so striking a featme in theseplants, is probably a less important circumstance than theu large exalbuminousembryo. Natives of stagnant or quiet waters in the temperate and tropical regions of thenorthern hemisphere, both in the Old and the New World ; most abundant in the EastIndies. They were formerly common in Egypt, but are now extinct in that country,according to DelUe. Chiefly remarkable for the beauty of the flowers. The fruit of Nelumbium speciosumis beheved to have been the Egj^ptian Bean of Pythagoras, and the flower that MythicLotus, which so often occms on the monuments of Egypt and India. The nuts of allthe species are eatable and wholesome. The root, or more properly the creeping stem, Fig. CCXC—Nelumbium speciosum. 1. a section of its joung carpel; 2, a section of the same whenripened into a bean, and showing the structure of the seed,.
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