. A manual of botany. Botany. 280 MANUAL or BOTANY or rarely opposite, inserted on a hypogynous disc, often unequal; anthers 2-ceUed, sometimes â united, introTSe; filaments short and broad, and elongated, so as to project beyond the anthers ; when the flowers are irregular, two of the anthers are spurred at the base. Ovary l-ceUed, with 3 parietal placentas; style single, usually declinate; stigma capitate oblique, hooded; ovules usually numerous. Fruit capsular, 3-valved, dehiscence loculioidal; placentas parietal, on the middle of the valves. Seeds usually numerous, sometimes definite ; emb
. A manual of botany. Botany. 280 MANUAL or BOTANY or rarely opposite, inserted on a hypogynous disc, often unequal; anthers 2-ceUed, sometimes â united, introTSe; filaments short and broad, and elongated, so as to project beyond the anthers ; when the flowers are irregular, two of the anthers are spurred at the base. Ovary l-ceUed, with 3 parietal placentas; style single, usually declinate; stigma capitate oblique, hooded; ovules usually numerous. Fruit capsular, 3-valved, dehiscence loculioidal; placentas parietal, on the middle of the valves. Seeds usually numerous, sometimes definite ; embryo straight, erect, in the axis of fleshy albumen. Diagnosis.âHerbs or shrubs. Leaves simple, stipulate, and with involute vernation. Sepals, petals, and stamens 5 each, hypogynous. Stamens all perfect; anthers introrse with the filaments prolonged beyond them, and sometimes having spur-like appendages below. Ovary 1-celled, with three parietal placentas; style and stigma single. Fruit 1-celled, dehiscing by 3 valves, each valve bearing a placenta in its middle. Seeds having a straight erect embryo in the axis of fleshy Pig. 1050. Fig. 1049. Sporophylls of the Pansy {Viola tricolor), si. Obliquely hooded stigma, a. Xlnited anthers, two having long spurred appendages at tlie base. Fig. 1050. Vertical section of the seed. Division of the Order and Illustrative Oenera.âThe order has been divided as follows:â Sub-order 1. Violece.âHaving irregular flowers and appendaged anthers. Illustrative Oenera:âViola, Linn.; lonidium, Vent. Sub-order 2. Alsodeie.âWith regular flowers, and anthers not furnished with spurred appendages. Illustrative Genera :â Alsodeia, Thouars ; Pentaloba, Lour. Distribution and Numbers.âThe herbaceous plants of the sub-order Violese are chiefly natives of Europe, Siberia, and North America; the shrubby mostly of South America. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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