. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. or less adnate to ex-albuminous, 1-2 in each ovary. Leaves alternate,stipulate — Calyx 5-toothed or cleft. Petals as many as calyx-teeth, inserted on the edge of the disk which lines the calyx-tube. Tribe I. AMYGDAIiE^. Calyx free, caducous. Ovary superior. Fruit a drupe— Trees or shrubs. 1. AMYGDALUS. Fruit a green drupe, the fleshy part aUengtk becoming dry. 2. CERASUS. Fruit a smooth, spherical or ovate, fleshy drupe, vnthout bloom, 3. PRUNUS, Fruit
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. or less adnate to ex-albuminous, 1-2 in each ovary. Leaves alternate,stipulate — Calyx 5-toothed or cleft. Petals as many as calyx-teeth, inserted on the edge of the disk which lines the calyx-tube. Tribe I. AMYGDAIiE^. Calyx free, caducous. Ovary superior. Fruit a drupe— Trees or shrubs. 1. AMYGDALUS. Fruit a green drupe, the fleshy part aUengtk becoming dry. 2. CERASUS. Fruit a smooth, spherical or ovate, fleshy drupe, vnthout bloom, 3. PRUNUS, Fruit an oblong or spherical, fleshy drupe, with a bloom. Tribe II. RUBE^. Calyx free, spreading. Stamens numerous. Carpels numerous,inserted on a convex or conical receptacle, at length drupe-like, 1-seeded, connate, forminga spurious berry. 4. RUBUS. A prickly shrub, with ternate, quinate or pinnate leaves ; flowers white or pink. Tribe III. DRYADE^. Calyx persistent Stamens generally numerous. Car-pels usually Buraerous, 1-seeded, free ; receptacle convex or conical, dry or fleshy. 300 ROSACEA. (rose family.) Fig. 3 1 (1) Plant of the Strawberry, with leaf, flower and fruit. (2) Half a flower, after thepetals have fallen, showing the stamens implanted in the calyx, and the swollen torus onthe surface of which are the akenes. (3) One of the akenes, with lateral style attachedat base, (4) A fruiting twig of Rubus. (5) A fruit. (6) The same split lengthwise, show-ing the long, central torus, and the drupe-like fruits. (7) A longitudinal section of one ofthe drupelets. (8) Flowers of Sanguisorba. (9) Fruit of the same. 5. GEUM Style persistent, (in ours) hirsute. Receptacle dry. Leaves incised-pinnate. 6. FRAGARIA. Style caducous. Receptacle fleshy in fruit. Leaves trefoil. 7. POTENTILLA. Style caducous. Receptacle dry in fruit. Leaves digitate, trefoil, orpinnate. Tribe IV, POTERIE^. Calyx-tube urn-shaped with throat almost closed, con-taining the free ovaries. Stamens vari
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