The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . Gnetacece. FISCHERIA. A genus of Asclepiadacece,containing about ten species from theWest Indies and Central America. Theyare twining hairy shrubs, with oppositecordate leaves, and many flower§ in ra-cemes on long interpetiolar peduncles,which thicken upwards and are scarred bythe deciduous pedicels. The calyx is five-parted ; the corolla is rotate and five-cleft,the divisions having a curled indentationat their apices; the staminal crown issimple or double ; the pe
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . Gnetacece. FISCHERIA. A genus of Asclepiadacece,containing about ten species from theWest Indies and Central America. Theyare twining hairy shrubs, with oppositecordate leaves, and many flower§ in ra-cemes on long interpetiolar peduncles,which thicken upwards and are scarred bythe deciduous pedicels. The calyx is five-parted ; the corolla is rotate and five-cleft,the divisions having a curled indentationat their apices; the staminal crown issimple or double ; the pentagonal stigma f. Sjg* /^uh^LX^ 497 Cfje €tcziuxy of botany. FITC covers the pollen-masses; and the folliclesare ovoid and fleshy. [W. FISH-POISOX. Lepidium Piscidium.—, JAMAICA. Piscidia Erythrina. FISSE2STIA. A genus of Loasacece,found in Arabia and the interior of SouthAfrica, remarkable as being the only re-presentative of the family in the easternhemisphere. It differs from other generain having a three-celled fruit, with oneseed in each cell. The only species, jP. spa-thulata, is a branching bush with straw-. Fissenia spathulata. coloured stems, alternate stalked lobedleaves not unlike those of the gooseberrybut larger, and pale green flowers four tosix together at the ends of the twigs ; theflowers have ten petals, five large androunded, and Ave small and narrow, verynumerous stamens, and three styles. Thelittle ten-ribbed fruits or nuts crownedwith the five long narrow calyx lobes, looklike miniature shuttlecocks. [A. A. B.] FISSICALYX. A tree from Venezuela,with pinnate leaves and terminal paniclesof yellow flowers, forming a genus ofLegwniinosm of the tribe Dalbergiece, distin-guished from all others by the irregularlysplit calyx; by the anthers opening in ter-minal pores; and by the fruit being sur-rounded by a broad membranous wing pro-ceeding from the centre instead of theedges of the valves, thus giving the fruitthe appearance of that of GuoMcum. FISSIDE
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