. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. 294 Ordeb 46.âPOLYGALACK-*. â '^i i'. "^v on tho upper sido. Ovary superior, compound, with suspended ovules, united styles and stigmas. Fruit a 2-celIed, 2-seeded pod. Seeds pendulous, furnished with a «arunclo. _ Oenera 20, «pecf«»600. Tho i^'enus Polygala is very generally distributed. The other genera are mostlv limited each to a ])articular quarter o
. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. 294 Ordeb 46.âPOLYGALACK-*. â '^i i'. "^v on tho upper sido. Ovary superior, compound, with suspended ovules, united styles and stigmas. Fruit a 2-celIed, 2-seeded pod. Seeds pendulous, furnished with a «arunclo. _ Oenera 20, «pecf«»600. Tho i^'enus Polygala is very generally distributed. The other genera are mostlv limited each to a ])articular quarter of the friobe. Properties generally bitter, acrid and ualrinj^ent, with a Ui Vy Juice in the root. Khatany-root, the root of Kraineria, used in medicine, yields a deep red color and is used to adulterate port wine. The more active gpe ;ies of Polygala, as P. Senega, sanguineu, purpurea, etc., are emetic, purgative and diu- retic. POLYGALA, Tourn. Milkwort. (Gr. TToXv^, much, ydXa, milk ; said to favor the lacteal secretious of animals.) Flowers very irregular. Sepals 6, 2 of them wing-shaped and petaloid; petals 3, cohering by their claws to the filaments, lower one carinate and often crested on the back; stamens 6 or 8, fila- ments united into a split tube; an- thers 1-celled ; capsule obcorclate, 2-celled, 2-seeded, loculicidal; seed appendaged with a various caruncle at the hilura.âBitter herbs in the U. S. and Can. (elsewhere often shrubby), with simple Ivs. Fls. often of two forms, the subterra- nean apetalous. Leaves alternate.âFls. purple, solitary, 2 to 4. Perennial -No. 1 âFls. purple, raccmed, many. Biennial Nos. 2, 8 âFls. white. Spike slender. Perennial No. 4 âFls. purple. Spike capitate.âCaruncle double Nos. 5, 7 âCaruncle appears simple. Sâ16 ââSpikes solitary, large. Biennial Nos. 11, 12 âSpikes numerous, coryuibed, small. 18,14 Leaves verticillate on the stem.âSpikes acute, slender Nos. 15, 16 âSpike
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