. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 123. Fruit (f). Fig. 124. Trans, sect, of fruit.' and the fruit becomes short, sometimes even wider than long, didy- mous. Its transverse section is elliptic or nearly so, the shorter diameter of the elhpse corresponding to the interlocular partition. The primary ridges are formed by thick columns of the whitish tissue called suberose; the marginal are prismatic. Interposed there is an equal number of wide vittse^ filled with odorous oil-resin. The face of the seeds is flat or convex. They are perennial aquatic glabrous herbs, having flowers collec
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 123. Fruit (f). Fig. 124. Trans, sect, of fruit.' and the fruit becomes short, sometimes even wider than long, didy- mous. Its transverse section is elliptic or nearly so, the shorter diameter of the elhpse corresponding to the interlocular partition. The primary ridges are formed by thick columns of the whitish tissue called suberose; the marginal are prismatic. Interposed there is an equal number of wide vittse^ filled with odorous oil-resin. The face of the seeds is flat or convex. They are perennial aquatic glabrous herbs, having flowers collected in compound umbels, with involucres formed of a few bracts or nil. They grow m the northern hemi- sphere of both worlds. The genus Sium was one of the most heterogeneous. To, it have been referred Carum, Apium, &c. It now comprises perennial glabrous. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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