. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries. Illustrated by a flora of northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants; Plants. 439 CII. ASCLEPIADACEiE. Asclepu*. N. Oleander. Rose Bay-tree. Oleander.—Lvs. linear-lanceolate; sep. squar- rose ; corona flat, its segments 3-toothed. Native in S. Europe and the Levant. Stern branched. Leaves 3 together, on short stalks, smooth, very entire, coria- ceous, with prominent, transverse veins beneath. Flowers terminal, corym- bose, large and be
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries. Illustrated by a flora of northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants; Plants. 439 CII. ASCLEPIADACEiE. Asclepu*. N. Oleander. Rose Bay-tree. Oleander.—Lvs. linear-lanceolate; sep. squar- rose ; corona flat, its segments 3-toothed. Native in S. Europe and the Levant. Stern branched. Leaves 3 together, on short stalks, smooth, very entire, coria- ceous, with prominent, transverse veins beneath. Flowers terminal, corym- bose, large and beautiful, rose-colored. One variety has white flowers, another variegated, and a third, double. This splendid shrub is common in Palestine, {Rev. S. Hebard.') growing by rivulets, &c. It is commonly supposed by travel- ers to be the plant to which the Psalmists alludes, Ps. i. 3, and xxxvii. 35. Order Oil. ASCLEPIADACEJE.—Asclepiads. Herbs or shrubs, with a milky juice. Lvs. almost constantly opposite, entire, exstipulate. its. somewhat umbeled, fascicled or racemose. Sep. 5, slightly united, persistent. Cor. petals 5, united at base, regular, deciduous, twisted-imbricate in estivation. Sta. 5, inserted into the base of the corolla and alter- nate with its segments. Fil. connate. Anth. 2-celled, cells sometimes nearly divided by partial septa. Pol. when the anther bursts cohering in masses which are as many as the cells, or confluent into pairs and adhering to the 5 processes of the stigma either by 2s, by 4s or singly. Ova. 2, styles 2, approximate, often very short. Stig- mas united into l, which is common to both styles, and with 5 glandular angles. Ft.—Follicles 2, one of them sometimes abortive. Sds. numerous, pendulous, almost always comose at the hilum. Albumen thin. Embryo straight. Cotyledons foliaceous. Radicle \ $ superior. Genera 141, species 910, chiefly natives of tropical regions, and especially abundant in S. Africa, S. India and New Holland, but are no
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