. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. Mesemb7']/anffiemum. Nearly ripe fruit (mag.)*
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. Mesemb7']/anffiemum. Nearly ripe fruit (mag.)* Mesembryanthemum. Ripe fruit (mag.). Meseinbryantlt^rnvm. Ripe fruit cut vertically (niag^)r marcescent or deliquescent, imbricate in bud. Stamens indefinite, many-seriate ; filaments subulate or setaceous, unequal, free or united at the base; anthers introrse, 2-celled, OToid, versatile, debiscence longitudinal. Carpels 4-20, cohering into an inferior ovary, 4-20-celled, ventral suture free, superior; placentas linear, parietal, occupying the bottom of each cell; stigmas 4-20, cristate, crowning the floral axis; ovules numerous, several-seriate, fixed by a ventral bilum to long funicles. Capsule at first fleshy, then woody and dry, top trurjpate, opening along the stig- matic crests by the centrifugal raising of the thick coriaceous epicarp as it separates from the endocarp, which persists under the form of geminate chartaceous triangular segments. Seeds numerous ; testa crustaceous, soft or granular; albumen farinaceous. Embrto peripheric, dorsal, curved or hooked, voluminous; cotyledons ovoid or oblong; radicle cylindric. GENUS. * Mesembryanthemum. Mesemhryanthemea approach Cactece in the polypetalous and epigynous corolla and its aestivation, in polyandry, parietal placentation and curved ovules ; they are separated by their many-celled ovary, sessile stigmas, farinaceous albumen, and normal leaves. They have also some affinity with Pm-tulacece, and especially-with Tetragon
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