. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 351. Flower. Fig. 352. Long. sect, of flower. flower, except that their gynsecium is trimerous, the two lateral car- pels being absent. The fruit may be a little fleshy at the time of maturity; then however it opens in three valves like a capsule^ In Hypericum proper,* the fruit is capsular, and the gynsecium is reduced to three carpels; but so are also the bundles of stamens ; so that there is only one anterior, oppositipetalous, and two lateral, superposed to sepals 4 and 5.* Now, with the three carpels and three staminal bundles of the true Hype
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 351. Flower. Fig. 352. Long. sect, of flower. flower, except that their gynsecium is trimerous, the two lateral car- pels being absent. The fruit may be a little fleshy at the time of maturity; then however it opens in three valves like a capsule^ In Hypericum proper,* the fruit is capsular, and the gynsecium is reduced to three carpels; but so are also the bundles of stamens ; so that there is only one anterior, oppositipetalous, and two lateral, superposed to sepals 4 and 5.* Now, with the three carpels and three staminal bundles of the true Hypericum^ let the flower have three glands alternating with the bundles of stamens and analogous to those of Vismia, and we shall ' The pollen is ellipsoid, ae in Mt/pericum nous, generally, with, tliree folds," external membrane 'All. Fl. Fedem. n. 1440.âSpach, Suit a formed of two bands pointed at the two ends Suffon, \. 414; Ann. Sc. Nat. loc. eit. 360.â â which cross {S. perforatum, H. qwadrangulare). Payer, Organog. 3, t. 1; Farm. Nat. 78. The folds correspond to the angles of a tetrahe- * Sypericum Spach, Suit, a Buffon, v. 382: dron (ff. perforatum); ovoid; three folds , in Ann. Sc. Nat. loc. eit. 356, water, a sphere having three bands with three ' " This of the staminal bun- papillae (-ff. hiroinum)." dies clearly indicates that the reduction to three 2 The exterior is often loose reticulate; the arises not by abortion but by the union of four next hard, coloured, covering a third membra- bundles two and ; (Payer.) 25â3. 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 Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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