. 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. 784 X. EydroUenia MeleagrU. InfioreEce
. 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. 784 X. EydroUenia MeleagrU. InfioreEcence. Crociu. Entile plant cut vertically. dissimilar, very rarely largest {Lihertia, Aristea), -usually fugacious, sometimes twisted spirally after flowering, and persistent {Morcea, Pardanthus, Aristea, Galaxia, &c.), aestivation twisted. Stamens 3, epigynous, or inserted either on the tube or at tlie base of the outer perianth-segments ; filaments distinct, or more or less monadelphous {Tigridia,Ferraria,Vieusseuxia,&c.); anthers exirorse, 2- celled, basi- or dorsi-fixed and versatile, oblong or ovoid, or sagittate, dehiscence lon- gitudinal. OvAET inferior, or rarely semi-inferior {Witsenia); cells 3, many- (rarely few-) ovuled {Aristea); style simple; stigmas 3, either opposite to the stamens {Iris, Morcea, Vieusseuxia), or alternate {Pardanthus, Sisyrinchiurn, Lihertia, &c.), very often dilated, petaloid, or lamellate, gyrose, contorted {Patersonia, Galaxia, Lihertia, &c.), entire, or 2-3-fid, or 2-labiate {Diplarrhena, Iris); ovules few or many, in 1-2-several series at the inner angle of each cell, usually horizontal, sometimes ascending {Pater- sonia, Galaxia, Orocus, &c.); or pendulous {Gladiolus, Watsonia, &c.), anatropous. Capsule 3-gonous, or lobed, or gibbous, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved; valves mem- branous, coriaceous or cartilaginous, semi-septiferous; placentas nerviform, adnate to. Please note that these images are extracted from s
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