. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. ex. times 2-Upped. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, with a loculicidal dehiscence. Seedsattached to the inner angle of the cells, sometimes to a central column be^commg^oose. Fig. CIX -Diagram of an germanicR. Fig. CVIII.—Ripe of an ex.—Vertical section of its seed 160 IRIDACE^ [ Fig. CXI. spheroidal, angular, oblong, or winged ; albumen horny, or densely fleshy ; embryoinclosed within it, the radicle being miiformly next the hi
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. ex. times 2-Upped. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, with a loculicidal dehiscence. Seedsattached to the inner angle of the cells, sometimes to a central column be^commg^oose. Fig. CIX -Diagram of an germanicR. Fig. CVIII.—Ripe of an ex.—Vertical section of its seed 160 IRIDACE^ [ Fig. CXI. spheroidal, angular, oblong, or winged ; albumen horny, or densely fleshy ; embryoinclosed within it, the radicle being miiformly next the hilum. Tliis Order differs from that of Amaryllids essentially, m bemg triancU-ous, with theanthers tiu-ned outwards ; from Orchids, to which it approaches nearly m some respects,in not bemg gynandrous ; in the nature of the seeds and placentae, m aU the anthers° being distinct; from Gingers and Arro\ATOots the tlu-ee perfect stamens di^-ide it, indepen-dently of the structm-e of the leaves, whichare extremely different. Blood-roots, whichare often triandrous mth equitant leaves,have the anthers bmsting inwardly, andwhen triandrous theu stamens are oppositethe petals. The Iris represents the generalstructure of the Order ; but a departurefrom the form of perianth found m that ge-nus takes place in Crocus, the flower ofwhich is extremely like that of Gethyllis andOporanthus among Amaryllids on the onehand, and of Colehicum among Melauths
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