. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. LA URALES. 493 fabrics, cordatre, etc. Lagetta Untearia, of Jamaica, is the Lace-Bark Tree, so called on account of its delicate inner bark. 578.—Cohort X. Laurales.—Herbs, shrubs, and trees, with mostly diclinous flowers ; ovary superior, one-celled, the single seed sometimes with, and sometimes without endosperm. Order Lauraceae.—The Laurel Family. Aromatic trees and shrubs Figs. 403-5.—Illustrations of Mtkistica Fig. 403. Fig. 405. Fig. 403.—Fruit, showing seed and aril. Fig. 404.—Seed and aril. Fig. 405.—Seed cut vertically, showin
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. LA URALES. 493 fabrics, cordatre, etc. Lagetta Untearia, of Jamaica, is the Lace-Bark Tree, so called on account of its delicate inner bark. 578.—Cohort X. Laurales.—Herbs, shrubs, and trees, with mostly diclinous flowers ; ovary superior, one-celled, the single seed sometimes with, and sometimes without endosperm. Order Lauraceae.—The Laurel Family. Aromatic trees and shrubs Figs. 403-5.—Illustrations of Mtkistica Fig. 403. Fig. 405. Fig. 403.—Fruit, showing seed and aril. Fig. 404.—Seed and aril. Fig. 405.—Seed cut vertically, showing embryo below. {rarely parasitic herbs) with free stamens, and a pendulous seed with- out endosperm. About 1000 species are known, occurring in the trop- ical and temperate climates of both hemispheres. LauTUS nobilis, the Bay or Laurel of Southern Europe, is a fine spreading-topped evergreen tree, twelve to fifteen metres (40 to 50 high. In ancient times its leaves were used to crown heroes, but now. 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 Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915. New York : H. Holt
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