. Analytical class-book of botany : designed for academies and private students. Plants. OHDEE OXXVI. H^MODOEACEiE. ORDER CXXXI. TEILLIACEJ]:. 127 ones fertile, and the central one abortive. Pollen sometimes granular and powdery, but more commonly coliering in â wax-like masses, â¢which are usually attached to a gland of the stigma. Ovary twisted, adherent to the tube of the perianth, 1-ceUed, many-ovuled. Fruit a 3-ribbed, 3-valved capsule. A very large order, remarknblo for its curious and oddly-shaped, but usually very showy, lloivers. Many of the tropical species are Epiphytes, as seen in
. Analytical class-book of botany : designed for academies and private students. Plants. OHDEE OXXVI. H^MODOEACEiE. ORDER CXXXI. TEILLIACEJ]:. 127 ones fertile, and the central one abortive. Pollen sometimes granular and powdery, but more commonly coliering in â wax-like masses, â¢which are usually attached to a gland of the stigma. Ovary twisted, adherent to the tube of the perianth, 1-ceUed, many-ovuled. Fruit a 3-ribbed, 3-valved capsule. A very large order, remarknblo for its curious and oddly-shaped, but usually very showy, lloivers. Many of the tropical species are Epiphytes, as seen in fig. 1, Plato YLl. Besides their beauty they have no very remarkable proper-. Pig. 84 ties. The Salep of commerce is derived from a species of Orchis, while the Vanilla of tropical America yields the aromatic seeds, which are so much used J^l Fig. 85. as a flavor and pertume. The Orchis, fig. 84, Arethusa, Cypropedium (Lady^a Slipper), and the Spiranthes, fig. 35, are examples. GROUP IV. Order OXXVI.âH£emodorace£e. Perennial herbs, with fibrous roots. Leaves ensifoi-m, equi- tant. Perianth woolly, or scurfy, adherent to the ovary, some- times free, with a regular 6-cleft limb. Stamens 3, or 6, arising from the tube of the perianth. Ovary 8-eelled. Anthers introrse. Style 1. Capsule opening by valves, rarely indehiscent. A very small order of plants, of which Aletris (Star-ffrass% is an example. Order CXXVII.âAmaryllidaceae. Perennial herbs, arising from bulbs, rarely with fibrous roots. Leaves parallel-veined. Flowers showy, mostly on scapes, and arising from spathes. Perianth regular, sometimes somewhat irregular; tube adherent to the ovary; limb 6-parted. Stamens 6, with introrse anthers, arising from the segments of the peri- anth. Ovary 3-ceIled. Style 1. Stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a, cap- sule or berry. A rather larj^e, chiefly tropical order, distinguished among Endogeus by the poisonous character of many of the species. Their bulbs are often acrid and emetic, as in
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