. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. mbryo, they will stand among Bindweeds ; if to the carpels, amongNolanads ; but as their separate styles are nearly paralleled by those of Evolvulus andothers, it seems upon the whole better to refer them to Bindweeds. Schlechtendahlsuggests {Linncea, 7. 72) that Nolana may be referred to Nightshades, on account of itsaffinity with Grabowskia boerhaaveifolia, in which the fruit contains two bilocular meno-spermous stones ; and it must be confessed that some of the slu-ubby Nola
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. mbryo, they will stand among Bindweeds ; if to the carpels, amongNolanads ; but as their separate styles are nearly paralleled by those of Evolvulus andothers, it seems upon the whole better to refer them to Bindweeds. Schlechtendahlsuggests {Linncea, 7. 72) that Nolana may be referred to Nightshades, on account of itsaffinity with Grabowskia boerhaaveifolia, in which the fruit contains two bilocular meno-spermous stones ; and it must be confessed that some of the slu-ubby Nolanads havemuch the habit of Lycium. This little Order is remarkable for the various modes m which its carpels are disposedwithout ever being consolidated. In one genus there are but 5, and they are distinct;in another there are 20 combined in fom*s ; in a third the combination is inegular thoughthe number remains 20; and in others they are all wholly distinct. The late ProfessorDon thought that Triguera must be referred here. The species are all South American, and chiefly Chilian. Their uses are unknown, Fig. CCCCXXXVIII. Nolana, , , Hofer, Teganium, SchmidtNeudorffia, , Lindl. Numbers. Gen. 6 Dolia, , Miers jSorema, , Lindl. Sp. 35. Position.—Boraginaceae. ConvolvulacecB. -NoLANACE^.— Solanacece. Fig. CCCCXXXVIII.—1. Alona coelestis ; 2. its pistil; 3. a transverse section of it; 4. section of seedof Nolana prostrata; 5. part of the fruit of Aplocarya divaricata. ECHULES.] 655 Order CCLIII. BORAGINACEiE.—Boragewortp. Boraginese, Juss. Gen. 143. (1789); R. Brown Prodr. 492 ; Bartl. Ord. Nat. 196. (1830).—Asperifolia-,Linn. Martins Conspectus, No. 118. (1835) ; Endl. Qen. cxliii. Diagnosis.—Echial Exogcns, with regular symmetrical flowers, 5 stamens, 4 nuts or twopairSj a naked stigma, and circinate inflorescence. Herbaceous plants or shrubs. Stems round. Leaves altei-nate, oft
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