. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CLXXXVIII. Fig. CXC. reaUy composed of numerous naked $ flowers surroundmg a ? equally destitute ofcalyx and corolla. The real history of the structure is however proved m many ways,and especiaUy by such plants as Monotaxis, in which there is also a number ot S flowerssurrounding one ? , but each is furnished with a calyx, and the cup-like mvolucre whichdisguises Euphorbia is reduced to a few scales. Besides these instances ot anomalous,structure, we find the carpels reduc
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CLXXXVIII. Fig. CXC. reaUy composed of numerous naked $ flowers surroundmg a ? equally destitute ofcalyx and corolla. The real history of the structure is however proved m many ways,and especiaUy by such plants as Monotaxis, in which there is also a number ot S flowerssurrounding one ? , but each is furnished with a calyx, and the cup-like mvolucre whichdisguises Euphorbia is reduced to a few scales. Besides these instances ot anomalous,structure, we find the carpels reduced to 2 in Mercurialis, &c., or even 1 in Eremocarpus The and Peripterygium, or mcreased to as many as 9 m Anisonema, or 15 m Hura. Fig. ,containingmonandrousmalefl^^^^^^^^a long-stalked female ; 2, 3, 4. male florets of different species, with the articulation tMt separates thefilamlnt from the pedicel; 5. a carpel separate ; 6. a vertical section of an ovarj ; 7. a vertical sectiona ripe seed, showing the central column and an embryo in the midst of albumen. Fig. CLXXX
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