. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. tion, interposed between the o\Tila, and tliis gra-dually indui-ating, acquiies m the ripe fruit the same consistence as the putamen itself,from whose substance it camiot be distinguished ; and thus, a fruit origmally of one cellbecomes bilocular ; the cells, however, are not parallel, as in all those cases where theyexist m the unimpregnated ovarium, but diverge more or less upwards. Tliis is sub-sequently explained by the same author {Kings Appendix), by the cohesion of theou
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. tion, interposed between the o\Tila, and tliis gra-dually indui-ating, acquiies m the ripe fruit the same consistence as the putamen itself,from whose substance it camiot be distinguished ; and thus, a fruit origmally of one cellbecomes bilocular ; the cells, however, are not parallel, as in all those cases where theyexist m the unimpregnated ovarium, but diverge more or less upwards. Tliis is sub-sequently explained by the same author {Kings Appendix), by the cohesion of theouter membranes of the two collateral o\Tiles, origmally distmct, but finally constitutingthis anomalous dissepiment, the inner membrane of the o^mle consequently foraimg theouter coat of the seed. - A happier name than that of Proteads could not have been de\ased, for the diversityof appearance presented by the various genera is such as it would be hard to parallel in Fig. CCCLXIII.—Sjmaphea style and stigma. -Ferd. Bauer. 1. a flower: 2. one of its lobes ; 3. the ovary Daphnales.] PROTEACEiE. 533. the same Natui-al Order. On the one hand, we have the hard-eoned Banksias, and theclose-headed Dryandras ; then come the loose-flowered Hakeas and (jrevilleas ; and theranks are closed by anomalous genera,bearing the names of Synaphea, Cono-spermum, Franldandia, &e. The principal stations of this Order arethe Cape of GoodHope and adjacentregions, and NewHolland. A few onlyoccur in South Ame-rica, the Malay Ar-chipelago, and else-where in the south-ern hemisphere ; inthe northern theyare scarcely abyssinica is,however, foimd in 2Abyssinia, and m general they occurin land unfit for cul-tivation. Few are of consideiable size. Mr. Frazer has reported the existence of a plant he referred toBanksia grandis, with a tinmk fifty feet high, and frequently moie than two feet and ahalf in diameter, occupying the barren hills on the banks of the r
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