. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Genus PLANER A, Gmel. CM M'i^i^ ?J.'K Sy^l. Xiit. Polygamia Jloncccia; or Tetr-Pent-andria Digynia. (SV/iV. Lin. Synonymcs. Flanera, U/miis, Rlmm/iiis, Of Authors. Dcriynlinn. The wnm Planera wa^ so named in honour of 'ohann Jakob Planer, pmfoaior of bolany at Erfiirtli, who puh- lnhod
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Genus PLANER A, Gmel. CM M'i^i^ ?J.'K Sy^l. Xiit. Polygamia Jloncccia; or Tetr-Pent-andria Digynia. (SV/iV. Lin. Synonymcs. Flanera, U/miis, Rlmm/iiis, Of Authors. Dcriynlinn. The wnm Planera wa^ so named in honour of 'ohann Jakob Planer, pmfoaior of bolany at Erfiirtli, who puh- lnhod, in 17»i, a work OMliileil " Plautaruni Agri Erfnrdiensis," in one volume, 8vo. Generk Characters. Sexes polygamous, or each in a distinct flower; in each case upon the same plant. Calyx of female ami bisexual (lowers bell-shaiied, distinct from thi; ovary, membnuioiis, green, of one piece, but haviii;,' 5 ciliate lobes. Stamens, in the bisexual llower, 1—'), less developed ilian those in the male (lower. Ovary top-shnped, villous. Sii?:mas 2, sessile, divergim;. white, pimpled. Frnit roundisli. uibbous, pouUed, dry, 2-celled, each cell coiUaining 1-seed. Calvx of male (lower as in the female and llowers. Stamens 4—5, inserted near the centre of tlie bottom of the calyx, and opposite to Its lobes. Anthers ; a little beyond the lobes of the calyx, borne outwardly to the lilameiu, of 2 lobes that seem as -1, and 2 cells that open sidewise and lens^t'hwisc. In P. gmebni, (P. ulmuolia,) the fruits are m heads; and in P. richardii, nearly solitary. ^Leaves alternate, and more or less ovate and toothed ; feather-veined and annual ; and the"llowers, small, and not showy. P. rich- ardii has stipules, which are straight, pointed, villous, and soon i-dii oa'.—Adapled, from Tarmn, Mi- chaux, and Lundun. TIE genus Planera embraces deciduous trees and shrubs, natives of western Asia, and of North America; quite hardy in Britain, and in tlic middle s
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