Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . common Flax. 749. Vertical section of a flower. 7D0. Diagramof the same, in a transverse section. 751. Its 10-celled capsule transversely divided. section of the incompletely 10-celled capsule of Linum perenne. EXOGENOUS OR DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 403 783. Ord. GcraniaceOB (OranesbiU Family). Herbs or shrubbyplants, commonly strong-scented; with palmately veined and usuallylobed leaves, mostly with stipules ;
Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . common Flax. 749. Vertical section of a flower. 7D0. Diagramof the same, in a transverse section. 751. Its 10-celled capsule transversely divided. section of the incompletely 10-celled capsule of Linum perenne. EXOGENOUS OR DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 403 783. Ord. GcraniaceOB (OranesbiU Family). Herbs or shrubbyplants, commonly strong-scented; with palmately veined and usuallylobed leaves, mostly with stipules ; the lower opposite. Flowersregular. — Calyx of five persistent sepals, imbricated in five, with claws, mostly convolute in aestivation. Stamens 10,the five exterior hypogynous, occasionally sterile; the filaments allbroad and often united at the base; five glands within and alternatewith the petals. Ovary of five two-ovuled carpels, attached to thebase of an elongated axis (gynobase, Fig. 430, 431) to which thestyles cohere : in fruit the distinct one-seeded carpels separate fromthe axis, by the twisting or curling back of the persistent indurated. styles from the base upwards. Seeds with no albumen : cotyledonsconvolute and plaited together, bent on the short radicle. For theplan of the blossom see p. 264, and Fig. 421. Our cultivatedGeraniums, so called, from the Cape of Good Hope, are species ofPelargonium. The roots are simply and strongly astringent. Thefoliage abounds with resinous matter and an ethereal oil, on whichthe aroma depends. 784. Ord. BalsamilMCCae {Balsam Family). Annual herbs, withsucculent stems filled with a watery juice. Leaves simple, withoutstipules. Flowers irregular, and one of the colored sepals spurredor saccate. Stamens five, cohering by an internal appendage. FIG. 753. Radical leaf of Geranium maculatum (Cranesbill). 754. A flowering A flower with the calyx and corolla removed, showing the stamens, &c. 75G. The pis
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