. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CCCXLIV. Flowers occasionally unisexual, often in racemes. Calyxfree, often coloured, imbricated in sestivation. Stamensvery rarely perigjTious, usually definite and inserted in thebottom of the calyx ; anthers dehiscing lengthwise. Ovaryfree, usually formed by the adhesion of 3 carpels, one-celled,with a single erect o^^lle, whose foi*amen always points up-wards ; styles or stigmas as many as the carpels of whichthe ovary consists ; ovule orthotropal. Nut usually trian-gu
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CCCXLIV. Flowers occasionally unisexual, often in racemes. Calyxfree, often coloured, imbricated in sestivation. Stamensvery rarely perigjTious, usually definite and inserted in thebottom of the calyx ; anthers dehiscing lengthwise. Ovaryfree, usually formed by the adhesion of 3 carpels, one-celled,with a single erect o^^lle, whose foi*amen always points up-wards ; styles or stigmas as many as the carpels of whichthe ovary consists ; ovule orthotropal. Nut usually trian-gular, naked, or protected by the calyx. Seed with farina-ceous albumen, rarely with scarcely any ; embryo inverted,generally on one side, sometimes in the axis ; radicle supe-rior, long. Brown remarks, that the erect ovulum with a superiorradicle together afford the most important mark of distinction between Polygonaceaeand Chenopodiacese, a character which obtains even in the genus Eriogonum, in whichthere is no petiolar sheath, and scarcely any albumen, the Httle that exists bemg fleshy ;to which may be added,
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