. 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. Damasonivm califomicum. Flower. SagiUaria sagit
. 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. Damasonivm califomicum. Flower. SagiUaria sagittc^olia. Inflorescence. Samasonium basilar and erect, tlie others horizontal. Eipe caepelb indehiscent, or dehiscent by their ventral suture. Seeds recurYed, exalbuminons; testa membranous. Embeto hooked, sub-cylindric; radicle inferior or centripetal. *Alisma, PEINCIPAL GENEEA. * Sagittaria, Damasonium, AUsmacecB have by a great many botanists been united with Juncaginea, â which only differ in their always extrorse anthers, anatropous OTules, and straight embryo; Alismacece are also connected on the other hand with Butomets, which are separated by their placentation and the number of their ovules. They are found, though not abundantly, in the temperate and tropical regions of both worlds. Alisma grows in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere and the tropics of the New World. SagiUaria inhabits the same countries, but is rarer in the tropics. Damasonium inhabits certain parts of Europe, North Africa, North-west United States, and East Australia. Most Alismaoets possess an aCrid juice, which led formerly to their use in medicine. The Water Plantain (Aluma Plantago) and Sagittaria sagittcefolia have been prescribed, but without good reason, for hydrophobia; the feculent rhizomes of the latter lose their acridity by desiccation, and serve as food to the Tartar Kalmucks; the same is the case with S. sinensis, cultivated in China, ,an,d S. obtusifolia, of North America. 3f
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