. Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology. Botany. EXOGENOUS OR DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 407 bus juice, compound leaves usually marked with pellucid dots, and small flowers; with valvate petals, a two- to five-celled ovary, and drupaceous fruit. Their balsamic juice, which flows when the trunk is wounded, usually hardens into a resin. The Olihanum, used as a fragrant incense, the Balm of Gilead, Balsam of Mecca, Myrrh, and the Bdellium, are derived from Arabian species of the order ; the East Indian Gum Elemi, from Canarium commune ; Balsam of Acouchi, and simi
. Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology. Botany. EXOGENOUS OR DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 407 bus juice, compound leaves usually marked with pellucid dots, and small flowers; with valvate petals, a two- to five-celled ovary, and drupaceous fruit. Their balsamic juice, which flows when the trunk is wounded, usually hardens into a resin. The Olihanum, used as a fragrant incense, the Balm of Gilead, Balsam of Mecca, Myrrh, and the Bdellium, are derived from Arabian species of the order ; the East Indian Gum Elemi, from Canarium commune ; Balsam of Acouchi, and similar substances, from various American trees of this family. 793. Ord. Amyridacea) consists of a few West Indian plants, inter- mediate as it were between Burseraceas and Leguminosse, and dis- tinguished from the former chiefly by their simple and solitary ovary. —Very probably this and the two last are to be 794. Ord, Yitacea ( Vine Family). Shrubby plants, climbing by tendrils, with simple or compound leaves, the upper alternate. FIG. 767. A branch of the Grape-Vine. 768. A flower; the petals separating from the base, and falling off together without expanding. 769. A flower from which the petals have fallen; the lobes of the disk seen alternate with the stamens. 770. Vertical section through the ovary and the base of the flower: a, calyx, the limb of which is a mere rim : 6, petal, having the stamen, c, directly before it; and the lobes of the disk are shown between this and the ovary. 771 A seed. 772. Section of the seed, showing the thick crustaceous testa, and the albumen, at the base of which is the minute embryo. 772'. A horizontal plan of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York [etc. ] Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co.
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