An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 480 BUXACEAE. Vol. II. Family Jl. BUXACEAE Dumort. Comm. Bot. 54. 1822. Box Family. Monoecious or dioecious trees, shrubs or perennial herbs, with alternate or opposite simple mostly evergreen leaves, the sap not milky. Flowers clustered or solitary, regular, bracted, with or without a perianth (calyx). Petals none.
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 480 BUXACEAE. Vol. II. Family Jl. BUXACEAE Dumort. Comm. Bot. 54. 1822. Box Family. Monoecious or dioecious trees, shrubs or perennial herbs, with alternate or opposite simple mostly evergreen leaves, the sap not milky. Flowers clustered or solitary, regular, bracted, with or without a perianth (calyx). Petals none. Staminate flowers with 4-7 distinct stamens, the anthers 2-celled; sometimes w'ith a rudimentary pistil. Pistillate flowers with a 2-4-celled (mostly 3-celIed) ovary, with 2 or I anatropous ovules in each cavity; styles as many as the ovary-cavities, simple. Fruit a capsule or drupe, its carpels 1-2-seeded. Em- bryo straight; endosperm fleshy, or almost wanting. About 6 genera and 35 species, only the following and the Californian Simmondsia in continental North America. I. PACHYSANDRA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 177. 1803. Monoecious perennial herbs, with matted rootstocks, the stems procumbent or ascending, leafy above, scaly or naked below. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, petioled, persistent, broad, 3-nerved, coarsely toothed, or entire. Flowers spicate, the pistillate and staminate in the same spike. Staminate flowers with 4 sepals; stamens 4, opposite the sepals; filaments thick, long-exserted; anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Pistillate flowers with 4 sepals or more; ovary 3-celled, the cavities with a partition at the base; styles 3, spreading; ovules 2 in each cavity. Capsule of 3 2-seeded carpels. [Greek, thick stamen.] Two species, the following typical one of southeastern North America, the other Japanese. I. Pachysandra procumbens Michx. Alle- ghany Mountain Spurge. Fig. 2775. P. procumbens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 177. />/. 4$. Somewhat pubescen
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