. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. LXVII. UMBELLIFERiE. SB3 desolations of autumn and winter, this alone puts forth its yellow blossoms. The small branches were formerly used for " divining rods," to indicate the presence of the precious metals arid of deep springs of water, and there are even at this day, persons who deem a denial of these virtues t
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. LXVII. UMBELLIFERiE. SB3 desolations of autumn and winter, this alone puts forth its yellow blossoms. The small branches were formerly used for " divining rods," to indicate the presence of the precious metals arid of deep springs of water, and there are even at this day, persons who deem a denial of these virtues to the witch hazel, an offence little short of heresy. Order LXVII. âUmbellifers. St. herbaceous, hollow, furrowed. Lvs. usually divided, simple or compound, with sheathing petioles. F/s. arranged in umbels, white, often yellow, pink, blue, or greenish. Cal. adhering to the ovarj', entire or 5-toothed. Cor.âPetiih 5, usually inflected at the point, imbricate in estivation. Sta. 5, alternate with the petals and in.^erted with them upon the disk. Ova. inferior, ii-celled, surmounted by the fleshy disk which bears the stamens and petals. Sty. 2, distinct, or united at their thickened bases. Stig-. simple. Pr. dry, consisting of2 coherent carpels, snsarating from each other by their faces (commissure) into two halves (7nerocarps). Carpophore,ât\{e slender, simple, or forked axis by which the carpels are borne, cohering to it by the faces of the commissure. Ribs.âA definite number of ridges traversing the carpels, the larger ones (primary) alternating with the smaller (secondary). Vitttz.âLittle linear receptacles of colored volatile oil, imbedded in the substance of the pericarp, just beneath the intervals of the ribs and the commissure. Genera 267, species 1500.âThis is a vast and well defined natural order, native of damp places, way- sides, groves, &c., in the cool parts of the world. Very few are found in tropical countries except upon the mountain
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