. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. for children. The kernel of Cerasus occidentalis is used for flavour-ing the liqueur Noyau. GENERA. Pygeum, Gdrtn. Polydontia, Blum. Polystorthia, , Ldnn. , , , , Zucc. Prunus, Linn. Armeniaca, Toumef. Prunopho7-a, , Juss. Cerasophora, , , Toiunef. Numbers. Gen. 5. Sp. 110. Position.—Rosacese.—Drupace^.—Fabacese ?TliymelacecB. ROSALES.] POMACEiE. 559 Order CCXI. POMACEiE.—Applewo
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. for children. The kernel of Cerasus occidentalis is used for flavour-ing the liqueur Noyau. GENERA. Pygeum, Gdrtn. Polydontia, Blum. Polystorthia, , Ldnn. , , , , Zucc. Prunus, Linn. Armeniaca, Toumef. Prunopho7-a, , Juss. Cerasophora, , , Toiunef. Numbers. Gen. 5. Sp. 110. Position.—Rosacese.—Drupace^.—Fabacese ?TliymelacecB. ROSALES.] POMACEiE. 559 Order CCXI. POMACEiE.—Appleworts. Rosaceae, § Pomacese, ^iolypetalous oegidar Jlotvers, and carpels adhering to the calyx by the or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipulate, simple, or compound. Flowerssolitary, or in terminal cymes, white or pink. Calyx adherent, 5-toothed ; the oddsegment posterior. Petals 5, imguiculate, inserted in the tliroat of the calyx ; the odd. Fig. CCCLXXVIII. 1 one anterior. Stamens indefinite, inserted in a ring in the throat of the calyx. Diskthin, clothing the sides of the tube of the calyx. Ovaries from 1 to 5, adhering moreor less to the sides of the calyx and each other ; ovules anatropal, usually 2, collateral,ascending, very rarely soHtary, sometimes 00 ; styles from 1 to 5 ; stigmas a pome, 1- to 5-celled, seldom spuriously 10-celled ; the endocarp eithercartilaginous, spongy, or bony. Seeds ascending, soUtary. Albumen none ; embryoerect, with flat cotyledons, or convolute ones in Chamsemeles, and a short inferiorconical radicle. Appleworts are closely allied to Roseworts, from which they differ in the adhesion ofthe carpels with the sides of the calyx, and more or less with each other. The fruit isalways a pome ; that is, it is made up of a fleshy calyx adlierrng to fleshy or bonyovaries, containing a definite number of seeds. Appleworts are peculiarly distinguishedby their ovides being in pairs, and
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