. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CLI. and numerous concentrieal circles, always pierced by medullary plates. The wood consists of glandular woody tissue and spiral vessels. The leaves are pinnated, hard and woody, perennial, generally circinatc when young, but in some instances ^^^ . ^j^g leaflets have fine simple veins, and are placed somewhat obliquely on their petiole, from which they finally disarticulate. (Miquel regards these leaves as a sort of branch, rami scissi.—Linncea, ) Flowers
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CLI. and numerous concentrieal circles, always pierced by medullary plates. The wood consists of glandular woody tissue and spiral vessels. The leaves are pinnated, hard and woody, perennial, generally circinatc when young, but in some instances ^^^ . ^j^g leaflets have fine simple veins, and are placed somewhat obliquely on their petiole, from which they finally disarticulate. (Miquel regards these leaves as a sort of branch, rami scissi.—Linncea, ) Flowers ^ ? , perfectly destitute of all trace of calyx and corolla. ^ collected in terminal cones, consisting of scales covered over their lower side with anthers which are one-celled, often collected in twos and threes, and split longitudinally. Pollen hyaline, Fig. CLI.—Cycas circinalis ; 1. a portion of a female frond ; 2. section of the naked ovule ; ^. ripefruit; 4. CLII.—Leaves of Zamias. 224 [Gymnogens. angular, collected in masses. ? consisting of naked ovules, placed beneath pelt
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