Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . Vincetoxicum , root; 6, fruit; c, Biucle seed. are five stamens and the stigma has five angles. The filaments areusually united so as to form a tube, wliicli is generally furnishedwith a coronet of peculiar hood-shaped appendages; the anthersare two-celled, the prtlen grains cohering in w;ix-like masses, whichfall out of the anther cells, ami become attached to glands atthe angles of the stigma; theie are two ovaries and two stylesvery close together, and often very short, with one dilated stigmaconunon
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . Vincetoxicum , root; 6, fruit; c, Biucle seed. are five stamens and the stigma has five angles. The filaments areusually united so as to form a tube, wliicli is generally furnishedwith a coronet of peculiar hood-shaped appendages; the anthersare two-celled, the prtlen grains cohering in w;ix-like masses, whichfall out of the anther cells, ami become attached to glands atthe angles of the stigma; theie are two ovaries and two stylesvery close together, and often very short, with one dilated stigmaconunon to both. The fruit consists of two follicles, or, by abor-tion, of one only, having numerous imbricated seeds with thin albu-men, the end of the seeds terminating in long down. There areabout one thousand known species, chiefly natives of warm of them are cultivated in gardens and hothouses upon ac-count of their curious or beautiful flowers, among the mostfamiliar of which are some of the s\^ene% oi Anclejna) {q. \.) orSwallow-wort; perhaps none of them is mo
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