Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . Calyx of the fertile flowers, if any,adherent. Ovary often two- to several-celled, but the fruit always one-celled. — Trees or * 462 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. Stipules sheathing. Nutlets club-shaped, in globular not sheathing or flowers only a kind of drupaceous nut. Leaves a dry nut, involucrate. Leaves kinds of flowers amentace
Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . Calyx of the fertile flowers, if any,adherent. Ovary often two- to several-celled, but the fruit always one-celled. — Trees or * 462 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. Stipules sheathing. Nutlets club-shaped, in globular not sheathing or flowers only a kind of drupaceous nut. Leaves a dry nut, involucrate. Leaves kinds of flowers a samara or a small dry one-celled : ovule solitary, two-celled, two-ovuled : ovule a many-seeded follicle : seeds with a coma. PlATANACEjE. ^e. Salicace^e. 890. Ord. AristoIochiaceaB (Birthiuort Family). Herbaceous orclimbing shrubby plants, with alternate leaves. Flowers brownor greenish, usually solitary. Calyx-tube more or less united withthe ovary ; the limb valvate. Stamens six to twelve, epigynous, oradherent to the base of the short and thick style: anthers adnate,. 1081 1085 1082 extrorse. Ovary 3 - 6-celled. Capsule or berry three- to six-celled,many-seeded. Embryo minute, in fleshy albumen. — Ex. Asarum(Wild Ginger, Canada Snakeroot), Aristolochia (Virginia Snake-root). Pungent, aromatic, or stimulant tonics ; generally termedSnakeroots, being reputed antidotes for the bites of venomous snakes. FIG. 1081. Asarum Canadense. 1082. Calyx displayed, and a vertical section through therest of the flower. 1083. Cross-section of the ovary ; the upper portion (from which the limbof the calyx is cut away) showing the stamens, the united styles, &c. 10SI. A separate sta-men, enlarged. 1085. Vertical section of a seed. EXOGENOUS OR DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 463 891. Ord. RafflesiaceEC : parasitic flowers, or flower-clusters (152), ofwhich the most striking is the gigantic Rafflesia Ar
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