. A manual of botany. Botany. 214 MANUAL OF BOTANY in each ovary. Fruit composed of as many utricles as there are carpels. Seeds albuminons ; embryo lenticular, terminal. Distribution, Numbers, and Properties.—Natives of Aus- tralia and the South Sea Islands. Illustrative Genera:— Desvauxia, B. Br. ; Aphelia, B. Br. There are about 15 species. Their properties and uses are unknown. Order 37. EBSTiACEa:, the Eestio Order.—Character.— Herbs or nnderslirubs. Leaves simple and narrovi^, or entirely absent. Stems stiff, either naked, or more commonly with slit convolute leaf-sheaths. Floiuers with
. A manual of botany. Botany. 214 MANUAL OF BOTANY in each ovary. Fruit composed of as many utricles as there are carpels. Seeds albuminons ; embryo lenticular, terminal. Distribution, Numbers, and Properties.—Natives of Aus- tralia and the South Sea Islands. Illustrative Genera:— Desvauxia, B. Br. ; Aphelia, B. Br. There are about 15 species. Their properties and uses are unknown. Order 37. EBSTiACEa:, the Eestio Order.—Character.— Herbs or nnderslirubs. Leaves simple and narrovi^, or entirely absent. Stems stiff, either naked, or more commonly with slit convolute leaf-sheaths. Floiuers with glumaceous bracts, spiked or aggregated, generally unisexual. No true perianth, its place Fig. 985. Fig. 986. Fig Fitj. 984. A portion of the angular stexn of a species of Car^x, with a closed sheath. Fig. 985. Staminate flower of a species of Carex. s/. Stamens, with long filaments and pendulous innate anthers, g. Glume. Fig. 986, Pistillate flower of a species of Carex, consisting of a glume at the base, and a pistil sur- rounded by an urn-shaped tube (periffpninm), n. St. Style, terminated by three stigmas. being usually supplied by 2—6 glumes. Stamens 2—8, adherent to the inner glumes, or the latter are sometimes absent; anthers generally 1-celled. O'wari/1—3-ceUed, with] pendulous ovule in each cell. Fruit capsular or nut-like. Seed solitary, pendu- lous, albuminous ; embryo lenticular, terminal. Distribution and Numbers.—Natives principally of South Africa, South America, and Australia. Some are also found in the tropical parts of Asia; but none occur in Europe. Illustra- tive Genera :—Leptoearpus, B. Br.; Eestio, Linn. There are about 180 species. Properties and Uses.—Unimportant. The wiry stems of. 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 Green, J. Reynolds (Joseph Re
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