. A manual of botany. Botany. DICOTYLEDONES—DISCIFLOEiE 323 Distribution amd Numbers.—The plants of this order are found in warm and tropical regions of the globe. None are natives of Europe. The common Grape Vine, which is now completely naturalised in the South of Europe, and is cultivated nearly all over the globe where the temperature does not rise too high or fall too low, is supposed to be a native of the shores of the Caspian. Illustrative Genera :—Vitis, Linn. ; Ampelopsis, L. 0. Mich. There are about 260 species. Properties and Uses.—The leaves, stems, and especially the unripe fruits
. A manual of botany. Botany. DICOTYLEDONES—DISCIFLOEiE 323 Distribution amd Numbers.—The plants of this order are found in warm and tropical regions of the globe. None are natives of Europe. The common Grape Vine, which is now completely naturalised in the South of Europe, and is cultivated nearly all over the globe where the temperature does not rise too high or fall too low, is supposed to be a native of the shores of the Caspian. Illustrative Genera :—Vitis, Linn. ; Ampelopsis, L. 0. Mich. There are about 260 species. Properties and Uses.—The leaves, stems, and especially the unripe fruits of the plants of this order, abound more or less in an acid juice, the acidity being chiefly diie to the presence of tartaric and mahc acids and acid tartrate of potash. As the fruit ripens, it generally loses its acidity, and becomes sweet, owing to the formation of siigar. Cohort 4.—Sapindales. Order 112. Sapindace^, the Soapwort Order.—Character. Usually large trees or twining shrubs, or rarely climbing herbs. Leaves generally compound, or rarely simple, alternate or some- times opposite, often dotted, stipidate or exstipulate. Flowers mostly perfect and unsymmetrical, sometimes polygamous. Sepals 4—5, either distinct or united at the base, imbricate. Fig. 1088. Fig. 1089. Fig. Fig. 1088. Diagram of the flower of the Horseohestimt (.Esailin Hippo- caslartiim). Fig. 1089. Vertical section of the flower. t\tj. 1090. Vt'r- tioal section ol the seerl. Petals 4—5, rarely 0, hypogynous, alternate with the sepals, imbricate, naked or fm-nished with an appendage on the inside. Stamens 8—10, rarely 5—6—7, or very rarely 20, inserted into the disc or into the thalamus ; filaments distinct or slightly monadelphous; anthers introrse, bursting longitudinally. Disc fleshy or glandular, hypogynous or perigynous. Ovary usually. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration
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