. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. >' rjmi i fiilr'i Order 95.—aENTIANACK^. high, paniculate above. 1—2f by ^—If entire. Flowers rose-color, not inelegant. Ji.—The use of this niiuseous and poisonous weed has become almost universal, and illustrates tiie power of habit. Sir "Walter Raleigh has tiie iionor of first introducing the practice of smoking into England, more than
. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. >' rjmi i fiilr'i Order 95.—aENTIANACK^. high, paniculate above. 1—2f by ^—If entire. Flowers rose-color, not inelegant. Ji.—The use of this niiuseous and poisonous weed has become almost universal, and illustrates tiie power of habit. Sir "Walter Raleigh has tiie iionor of first introducing the practice of smoking into England, more than 200 years ago, and in his liouse at Islington, is still to be seen a shield bearing his arms, with a tobacco-plant at the top. (Loudon.) 3 N. longiflora Cav. With long, spreading branches; Ivs. acuminate, radical ovate-lanceolate, short-petioled, cordate-lanceolate, sessile; fls. lateral, solitary, pedicellate, arranged in a simple terminal raceme; cor. tube filiform, very pubes- cent, 5 limes longer than the calyx, segments lance-ovate, acute.—Gardens iSouth. Cor. white, variegated with purple and yellow. 13. FABIANA imbricata Ruiz. & Pav. is a fine little shrub resembling a Tamarix, with small (6" long) ovate Ivs. covering the numerous branches and small violet-white fla f Chili. Order XCV. GENTIANACE^E. Gentianworts. Herbs ws regul eistont smooth, with a colorless, bitter juice, with entire, exstipulate leaves. Flow- ax, mostly centrifugal in inflorescence and convolute in the bud. Calyx per- coroUa withering, its lobes alternate witii i\\Q stamens. Ovary free, 1-celled with 2, more or less projecting par- ietal placentae. Fruit a 2-valved, septicidal, OO-seeded capsule, rare- ly baccate. Seeds with a minute, straight embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. Genera 60, species 450, found in every part of the world. Properties.—An intensely prin- ciple called gentiunine pervades the wiiole order witliout exception, residing in every part, rendering t
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