. 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. 408 LXXXVI. HAMAMELIDEiE. North America. The ot
. 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. 408 LXXXVI. HAMAMELIDEiE. North America. The other genera are monotypie. Aldrovanda floats on stagnant watei-s in the South of France and North Italy [and Bengal], BrosophyUum in the Spanish peninsula [and Morocco], Dionaa in the savannahs of South Carolina, Roridula in South Africa, Byblis in Australia. The properties of Droseracees are imperfectly known. The indigenous Drosei-a are acidulous-acrid, bitter, vesicant, and very hurtful to sheep. They have been found useful in dropsy and intermittent fevers. Their name of Sundew is derived from the tiny drops secreted by the glandular hairs of the leaves. [The glandular hairs on the leaves of various species are irritable, curving round insects that get entangled by their viscid tips.—Ed.] LXXXVI. HAMAMELIDE^. (Hamamblide^, Br.—Hamamelacb^, Lindl.) CoEOLLA 0 or polypetalous. Petals 4-5, perigynous, cesiivation valvate. Apbta- LOTJS FLOWBES polyandrous; petaloid flowbes diplostemonous. Stamens some fer- tile, opposite to the petals ; others sterile, squamiform, alternate. Ovaet semi-inferior, 2-celled; ovules pendulous, anatropous. Peuit a capsule. Embryo albuminous, axilej RADICLE superior.—Stem woody. Leaves alternate, stipulate. Sheubs, or small or large trees, with cylindrie branches glabrous or stellately hairy. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, penninerved; stipules geminate at the base of the petioles, deciduous. Flowbes 2, or ^ ? by arrest, sub-sessile, in a fa
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