. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. XLVIII. ROSACEA. 239 A large proportion of these are natives of temperate climates north of the equator. Properrics.âA highly important order, whether we regard its delicious fruit, its medicinal products, or the beauty of its flowers. None of its species (excepting tliose of the Almond tribe) are unwholesome. An astringent p
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. XLVIII. ROSACEA. 239 A large proportion of these are natives of temperate climates north of the equator. Properrics.âA highly important order, whether we regard its delicious fruit, its medicinal products, or the beauty of its flowers. None of its species (excepting tliose of the Almond tribe) are unwholesome. An astringent principle characterizes the family, residing chiefly in the bark and the roots. The roots oi the blackberry have been used in medicine as an astringent; of Gillenia, as an emetic; Agrimo- iiia, as a vermiluee. The petals of Rosa damascena. yield the well known fragrant oil, called oitar of â¢rose. The Almond, Peach, &c., abound in prussic acid, a deailly poison, residing chiefly in the kernels.â tif the RosaoeaB, as ornamental flowering shrubs, it is scarcely necessary to FIG. 44.â1. Potentilla arguta, flower and leaf 2. Vertical section of a flower with the petals removed, showing the perigynous disk, stamens, ovaries. <Src. 3. Enlarged ovary and style. 4. Mature ovaiy. 5. Section showing the seed and funiculus. 6. Vertical section of a flower of Frasaria, showing the peri- gynous stamens, the ovaries, &c. 7. Enlarged carpel. 8. Fruit, consisting of the enlarged receptacle with the achenia external. 9. Perigynous stamens of Rubus Ida;us. 10. Fruit, the fleshy carpels aggre- gated. 11. Section of the fruit. 1'2. Flower of the apple tree. 13. Vertical section of a rose, showing the distinct carpels in the calyx tube. Conspectus of the Genera. < Sta. 5. Siblaldia. 24 C Leaves < cauline. \ Sta. 00. PotenrUla. 12 ("not < Ml radical. Wahlsteinia. \S 1 caudate. ( Leaves simple. . Dalibarda. ("on a dry 1 and caudate with <
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