. Analytical class-book of botany : designed for academies and private students. Plants. 108 OEDEE IX. SAEEACENIACEjE. OEDEE XVI. DEOSEEACEiE. Oeder IX.—Sarraceniacese. Perennial, acaulescent herbs, growing in bogs. Leaves pitcher-shaped, as in fig. 9, Plate XVII. Flowers large, solitary, nodding. Sepals 6, persistent, with 3 bracts at base. Petals 6. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous. Anthers adnate, introrse. Style single. Stigma large, petaloid, persistent, coTering the 5- celled, 5-valved ovary. Placentae central. Seeds numerous, minute. A. email and very curious order, confined to the swamps
. Analytical class-book of botany : designed for academies and private students. Plants. 108 OEDEE IX. SAEEACENIACEjE. OEDEE XVI. DEOSEEACEiE. Oeder IX.—Sarraceniacese. Perennial, acaulescent herbs, growing in bogs. Leaves pitcher-shaped, as in fig. 9, Plate XVII. Flowers large, solitary, nodding. Sepals 6, persistent, with 3 bracts at base. Petals 6. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous. Anthers adnate, introrse. Style single. Stigma large, petaloid, persistent, coTering the 5- celled, 5-valved ovary. Placentae central. Seeds numerous, minute. A. email and very curious order, confined to the swamps of North America and Guiana, and illustrated by the Sarracenia, our common Pitcher-planL as In flg. 9, Plate XVII. Order X.—Papaveraceae. Herbs, usually with a milky or colored juice. Leaves alter- nate. Stipules none. Flowers solitary, on long peduncles, white, red, or yellow, hut never blue. Sepals 2, rarely 3, caducous. Petals 4, rarely 6, regular, hypogynous. Stamens 8—24, or nu- merous, usually some multiple of 4. Anthers innate. Ovary single, 1-celled, forming a pod, with 2 or 3 parietal placentae, or a capsule with several. Seeds numerous. Embryo minute, at the base of the copious, oily albumen. A small but important order, chiefly natives of Europe, and distinguished not less by their narcotic properties, than by their splendid flowera The most Important product is Opium, derived from a species of Papaver {Poppy). Other examples are furnished by the Sanguinaria (Jilood^roof}, and Chelido- nium (.Celandine), GROUP III. Order XI.—Fumariace^. Smooth herbs, with a watery juice. Stems brittle. Leaves alternate, much divided, destitute of stipules. Flowers irregular. Sepals 2. Petals 4, in pairs, 1 or both of the outer ones spurred or saccate at base; the 2 inner cohering at apex. Stamens 6, diadelphous, with dilated, and more or less united filaments; the middle one of each set bearing a 2-celled anther; 2 outer ones 1- celled anthers. Ovary simple, becoming in frui
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