. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. leaves, though, if theplant is killed to the ground by frost they are mostly alternate on the shoots that springup again. It is closely allied to Roseworts, Lythrads, Onagrads, Myrobalans, andMelastomads, but cannot well be confounded either with them or any other offers a singular instance of the facility with which the calyx and corolla can takeupon themselves the same functions and transformations. In Eucalyptus the sepalsare consolidated into a cup-hke lid, called
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. leaves, though, if theplant is killed to the ground by frost they are mostly alternate on the shoots that springup again. It is closely allied to Roseworts, Lythrads, Onagrads, Myrobalans, andMelastomads, but cannot well be confounded either with them or any other offers a singular instance of the facility with which the calyx and corolla can takeupon themselves the same functions and transformations. In Eucalyptus the sepalsare consolidated into a cup-hke lid, called the operculum, and in Eudesmia, a nearly- flower; 2. the same divided vertically; 3. a stamen; Fig. CCCCXC— Eugenia tuberculata. 1. a4. a ripe fruit; 5. a leaf with the dots upon it. Myrtales.] MYRTACE^. 735 related genus, the calyx remains in its normal state, while the petals are consolidatedinto an operculum. Babingtouia otters the cm-ious structure of a stX ^i^ and .^.olly from the placenta, a eircumstanc^not withoST aparallel m this Order ; and Bseckia micrautha, DC, has pai-ietal placentae !. 1 Fig. CCCCXCI. Pmiica has been considered the type of a particular Order (Granatere) by Don, inwhich he is supported by the high authority of De Candolle, Von IMartius, and ^^ fruit of Punica Granatum, the Pomegra-nate, is described by Gsertner and De CandoUeas bemg divided into two miequal divisions bya horizontal diaphragm, the upper half of whichconsists of from 5 to 9 cells, and the lower ofthree ; the cells of both being separated bymembranous dissepiments ; the placentae of theupper half proceeding from the back to thecentre, and of the lower UTegularly from theirbottom; and by Don as a fleshy receptacleformed by the tube of the calyx into a unilocu-lar berry, filled with a spongy placenta, whichis hollowed out into a number of irregular fact, if a Pomegranate is examined, it will befound to agree more or less perfectly with boththese description
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