. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. CXCI. PEOTEACE^. 661 nearly basal, ascending, s
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. CXCI. PEOTEACE^. 661 nearly basal, ascending, sessile or shortly funicled. Fkuit indehiscent, enclosed in the drupe-like calyx-tube, which is fleshy outside and bony within. Seed as- cending, testa membranous or cartilaginous, hilum basilar, raphe projecting, chalaza apical; o/ftitmew 0, or very thin. Embeto straight, axile ; cotyledons thick; radicle superior. PRINCIPAL GENERA. * Hippophae. ' Sheplierdia. * Elseagnus. Conuleum. ElcBognea are very near ProleacecB (whicli see). They approach Santalaoeee, but these differ in their really adherent ovary and the ovules. We have indicated the affinity between Elaagnece and Thymeleo; under that family. EUsagneo! form a small family, chiefly natives of the mountains of tropical and sub-tropical Asia; a few species inhabit Europe, the Mediterranean region, and North America. They are very rare in tropical America, and entirely absent in south temperate latitudes. The fleshy base of the perianth, enveloping the fruit of Eleeagnus, contains free malic acid, which renders the fruit of some species edible, as the Zinzeyd (E. hortends and orientalis) in Persia, and E. arhorea and conferta in India. The fruit of Ilippophde rhamnoides, an indigenous [French] shrub, is acid and resinous tasted; though described as very poisonous, the Finns are said to use it as a seasoning for fish. It is cultivated for its running roots and thorny close and interlaced branches, which form hedges and bind
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