. 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. 74 1. EANUJSrCULACE^. ecfcariferous {Callianthe
. 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. 74 1. EANUJSrCULACE^. ecfcariferous {Callianthemum, Myosurus). Carpels 1-ovuled ; ovule pendulous, raphe orsal. Achenes dry, rarely fleshy {KnowUonia).—Stem herbaceous, erect. Leaves II radical, or the cauline alternate. Mowers often involucrate. 3. *Thalictrum.—Involucre 0. Sepals 4-5, petaloid. Petals 0. Carpels more or less amerous, on a narrow receptacle ; style short, deciduous, or 0. Achenes often stipitate, bbed, nei'ved, or winged.—Herbs with perennial rootstock. Leaves 2-3-pinnatisect. lowers often polygamous, panicled or racemose, dull green, yellow, purple, or whitish, sually small. Europe, Asia, America. 4. *Anemoiie.—Involucre usually distant from the flower, of three whorled leaflets. Sepals staloid, 4-20. Petals 0, or represented by the outer stamens changed into stipitate glands, arpels numerous. Achenes in a head, terminated by the persistent' naked or bearded style, -ocapigerous herbs with perennial rootstock. Leaves radical, lobed, or dissected. Flowers irely yellowish. Stamens shorter than the sepals. Extra-tropical regions. Section I. Pulsatilla.—0\xt%v stamens without anthers, gland-like. Achenes terminated by a ;arded featheiy tail. Section II. Anemone.—Stamens all fertile. Aehenes terminated by a short point, not feathery. Section III. Hepatica.—Involucre close to the flower, and simulating a calyjc. Axjhenes terminated r a short st}4e, not bearded. 6, Kuiowltonia.—Sepals 5, herbaceou
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