. 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. 184 I. EANUNCTJLACEiE. 226. Graridella.—Sepals
. 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. 184 I. EANUNCTJLACEiE. 226. Graridella.—Sepals 5, petaloid, caducous. Petals 6, 2-labiate. Follicles 2-3, sessile, coterent at tlie base, and opening at the top; style very short. Seeds 2-seriate.—Slender herbs. Leaves finely multifid. Flowers small, white. Mediterranean Region. 23. ?Aquilegia.—Sepals 6, regular, petaloid, deciduous. Petals 5, like a cornucopia or hood, attached by the margin of the limb, and nectariferous at the base of the cavity. Lower stamens reduced to scale-Hke staminodes. Carpels 5, sessile, distinct, many-ovuled, follicular when ripe. Seeds with crustaceous, smooth or granular testa.—Erect herbs; rootstock perennial. Leaves ternately decompound. Flowers conspicuous, blue, yellow, scarlet, or parti- coloured, solitary or panicled. Europe, Asia, North America. 24. * Delphinium.—Sepals 5, petaloid, unequal, subcoherent at the base, the posterior turned up in a horn or spur. Petals 2 or 4, small, all sometimes united, the two upper pro- longed into a pointed spur included in that of the calyx; the two lateral not spurred, or 0. Carpels 1-5, sessile, distinct, many-bvuled, follicular when ripe. Seeds subfleshy.—Annual herbs, or with perennial rootstock, erect, branched. Leaves palmatilobed Or Larkspur. Larkspur. Larkspur. Larkspur. Stamen Ripe Pistil, witH a Audroeciutn and (mag.). carpel. stameu (mag.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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