. 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. LXVIL AMPELIDB^. 349 also used for dyeing yello
. 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. LXVIL AMPELIDB^. 349 also used for dyeing yellow, like that of H. Frangula, a common shrub throughout temperate Europe, the tender and porous wood of which yields a very light charcoal, which is used, like that of Eumiynvas, in the manufacture of gunpowder. The Zyziphi contain in every part astringent and bitter principles; but in the fruit this bitterness is corrected by a quantity of sugar and mucilage which render them edible. Z. vulgaris, a native of Syria, was imported into Italy towards the first century of our era, and has lono' been naturalized in the south of France ; its drupe is used as an emollient and laxative. The Z. Lokis, the Nabk of the Arabs, is very abundant along the African shore of the Mediterranean; its pulpy and agreeable fruit vvas very celebrated among the ancients, and is still eaten. [The succulent peduncles of ^oijejMa ete«s are much eaten in China as a fruit. The Qwrna of Brazil is the acrid root of Discaria fehrifiiga. The bitter bark of Coluhrina is said to bring on violent fermentation. The Chinese employ the leaves of Safferetia thecezans as a kind of tea.^—Ed.] LXVn. AMPELIDEJE, (ViTES, Jussieu,—Sarmbntace^, Ventenat,—Ampelide^, Kunth.—Vitace^, Lindl,) Corolla polypetalous or sub-polypetalous, isostemonous, cestivaUhn valvate. Petals 4-6,inserted outside a dish lining the calyx, and surrounding thehase of the ovary. Stamens. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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