. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. LXVII. UMBELLIFERiE. 283 desolations of autumn and winter, this alone puts forth its yellow blossoms. The small branches were formerly used for " divining rods," to indicate the presence of the precious metals and of deep springs of water, and there are even at this day, persons who deem a denial of these virtues to
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. LXVII. UMBELLIFERiE. 283 desolations of autumn and winter, this alone puts forth its yellow blossoms. The small branches were formerly used for " divining rods," to indicate the presence of the precious metals and of deep springs of water, and there are even at this day, persons who deem a denial of these virtues to the witch hazel, an offence little short of heresy. Order LXVII. UMBELLIFER^.âUjibellifers. St. herbaceous, hollow, furrowed. Lvs. usually divided, simple or compound, with sheathing petioles. Fls. arranged in umbels, mostly white, often yellow, pink, blue, or greenish. Cat adhering to the ovary, entire or Stoothed. Cor.âPetals 5, usually inflected at the point, imbricate in sstivation. Sta. 5, alternate with the petals and inserted with them upon the disk. Ova. inferior, 2-celled, surmounted by the fleshy disk which bears the stamens and petals. Sty. 2, distinct, or united at their thickened bases. Stlg. simple. _ .... Fr. dry, consisting of2 coherent carpels, separating from each other by their faces (.commmure) into two halves (tnerocarps). ,...-. u â¢.. Carpophore,âthe slender, simple, or forked axis by which the carpels are borne, cohering to it by the feces of the commissure. , ,.,,.,â â¢,,.., Ribs.âA definite number of ridges traversing the carpels, the larger ones (pnmary) alternating with Uie smaller (secondary). , . , ^ ,_ ⢠⢠. Vis««.âLittle linear receptacles of colored volatile oil, imbedded in the substance of the pericarp, just beneath the interv'als of the ribs and the commissure. Genera 267, species 1500.âThis is a vast and well defined natural order, native of damp places, way- sides, groves, &c., in the cool parts of the world. Ver
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