. The natural history of plants. Botany. UMBELLIFERJE. 151 the ridges of which the pedicels which bear the flowers of the following generation are connate in their lower part; these may sometimes be fertile but are much more frequently male or sterile. The place in this family of Lagoexia cuminoides'-{ 183, 184), an annual of the entire Mediterranean region, with the habit and foliage of many Umbelliferce, especially of Oliveria, has been much contested. L^goecia Fig. 183. Flower (f). Fig. 184. Long. sect, of flower. This is because its ovary with a single fertile cell, which
. The natural history of plants. Botany. UMBELLIFERJE. 151 the ridges of which the pedicels which bear the flowers of the following generation are connate in their lower part; these may sometimes be fertile but are much more frequently male or sterile. The place in this family of Lagoexia cuminoides'-{ 183, 184), an annual of the entire Mediterranean region, with the habit and foliage of many Umbelliferce, especially of Oliveria, has been much contested. L^goecia Fig. 183. Flower (f). Fig. 184. Long. sect, of flower. This is because its ovary with a single fertile cell, which is anterior, is surmounted by a simple style, which is posterior, and an epigynous eccentric disk surrounded by, besides the corolla and andrcecium, five long straight sepals, divided at the margin into five aristate slips. VI. ARALIA SERIES. Though generally considered as belonging to a family distinct from that of the Umbelliferce, Aralia ' (fig. 185-190), as we shall see, can only constitute a section of it. The greater part have flowers in pentamerous verticils. The receptacle also, in form a deep ovoid 1 T. Inst. 300, t. 154.—L. Gen. n. 386 (part). —J. Gen. 218 (part).—Lamk. Diet. i. 223 ; Suppl. i. 416 (part).—DO. JProdn iv. 257.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, viii. 119.—Endl. 4558 (part).—Pater, Organog. 409, t. 89.— Done, et Pd. (1854) 104.—B. H. Gen. 936, n. 4.—C. Koch, Wochenschr. (1864) 369.— Seem, Journ. of Sot. vi. 133.—H. Bn. Payer Fam. Hat. 338; Adansorda, lai. 135, 162, 163j 164.—Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 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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