. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CCXV.—Bryonia CCXVI.—Coccinia indica. a flower; 2. stamens; 3. stigmas; 4. sectionof seed. — Wight. 312 CUCURBITACE^. [Diclinous the former of these two writers a very particular account of the structure of the Orderhas been given m the Mimoires du Museum. He adopts the opinion of Jussieu, that theapparent corolla of these plants is really a calyx, considering the apparent calyx to bemeiely certain external appendages. In discussing the affinities of
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CCXV.—Bryonia CCXVI.—Coccinia indica. a flower; 2. stamens; 3. stigmas; 4. sectionof seed. — Wight. 312 CUCURBITACE^. [Diclinous the former of these two writers a very particular account of the structure of the Orderhas been given m the Mimoires du Museum. He adopts the opinion of Jussieu, that theapparent corolla of these plants is really a calyx, considering the apparent calyx to bemeiely certain external appendages. In discussing the affinities of the Order, which hedoes much at length, he remarks,that Carica (now the type of the Order Papayads) should be excluded ; that ^~^^^~-\ ^r^l/V\# —-^1* the tendrils of Cu- /- . -- ^ curbits are trans- formed stipules,but scarcely analo-gous to the stipulesof Passionflowers ;that there is anaffinity between theOrder and Bell-worts, manifestedin the perigynousinsertion of the sta-mens, the inferiorovary, the singlestyle with severalstigmas,the quinarydivision of the flow-er connected withthe ternary divisionof the finiit, and,finally, some ana-logy in the natureFig. CCXVII. of the floral enve- lopes. He, however, chiefly insists upon their affinity with Onagrads, \\\
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