. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. uallyFig. CCCCXLI. acute. Fruit 1 to 4 small nuts, mclosed within the persistent calyx. Seeds erect, with httle or no albumen ;embryo erect; cotyledons flat. . \ ^a nn The 4-lobed ovary, with a solitary style arising from the base of the lobes, lias noparallel among monopetalous didynamous Orders. The closest relation ot Labiate!, iswith Verbenest which chiefly diff-er in theii undivided ovary. From Boragewoi^s tleydiff-er both m having an irregular coroUa, and not more than 2
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. uallyFig. CCCCXLI. acute. Fruit 1 to 4 small nuts, mclosed within the persistent calyx. Seeds erect, with httle or no albumen ;embryo erect; cotyledons flat. . \ ^a nn The 4-lobed ovary, with a solitary style arising from the base of the lobes, lias noparallel among monopetalous didynamous Orders. The closest relation ot Labiate!, iswith Verbenest which chiefly diff-er in theii undivided ovary. From Boragewoi^s tleydiff-er both m having an irregular coroUa, and not more than 2 or 4 stamens, wlulc uielobes of the corolla are 5, square stems and opposite leaves ; circumstances m wn cuLabiates resemble some Figworts. From all Boragcworts they are known, in tneabsence of fructification, by their square stem and the numerous rescrvou-s oi on mtheir leaves. According to Ginsehch, these reservoirs are not analogous to ttiosc oi Fig. ]. Salvia officinalis; 2 its corolla laid open; 3. its pistil; 4. the pistil and lowerpart of the flower cut open ; 5. perpendicular section of a 660 LAMIACE^. [Perigyxous Exogens. Oranges and other plants, but are little utrieules having an open orifice ; and hence hecalls them pores. For some good remarks upon the anatomy of the stem of Labiates, seeMirbel in the Annalcs du Museum, vol. 15. p. 223. The aestivation of the corolla ofthis Order, first well pointed out by Brown, is an important consideration in determiningwhether a flower is resupinate or not. Prostanthera is remarkable for the remains ofalbumen existing in the ripe seeds of several of its species. Oxera of La Billardi^rehas been lately re-examined by M. Fenzl, who finds that its structme was, as I suspected,entirely misunderstood, and that the lobes of its ovary contain each a conical, sohtary,fleshy placenta, from the apex of which one o%ule hangs down. He refers the plant toVerbenes ; but its lobed ovary is an objection, and the pendulous positio
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