The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . iselliptical, dorsally compressed and aboutone-third of an inch long ; each of the car-pels has five winged ribs, the marginal onestwice the breadth of the others ; and in thelateral furrows, there are three oil tubes(vittas), seen in the form of dots whenthe fruit is cut across, usually two in thedorsal furrows, and four to eight on theinner face. [A. A. B.] CONIOTHECJE. The cells of an anther. CONIUM. The genus to which belongsthe well-known Hemlock. The botanical
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . iselliptical, dorsally compressed and aboutone-third of an inch long ; each of the car-pels has five winged ribs, the marginal onestwice the breadth of the others ; and in thelateral furrows, there are three oil tubes(vittas), seen in the form of dots whenthe fruit is cut across, usually two in thedorsal furrows, and four to eight on theinner face. [A. A. B.] CONIOTHECJE. The cells of an anther. CONIUM. The genus to which belongsthe well-known Hemlock. The botanicalname has been given under the suppositionthat this is the plant mentioned by theGreeks, under the same name, and whichwas administered, as a judicial means of ex-ecution, to Socrates and Phocion. The dis-tinguishing characters reside in the fruit,which is somewhat globular in shape, andeach half is marked with five wavy are no vittse or channels for oil, andthe albumen is deeply furrowed on itsinner surface. Such are the botanical cha-racteristic, but the poisonous nature ofC. maculatum, the common Hemlock, and. Conium maculatum. its frequent growth in hedges and byroad-sides in this country, demand a more fulldescription. 1 nial plant, with a tap-shaped root,a smooth! shining hollow stem, two to five feet in: height, frequently marked with purplespots, though these vary very much innumber and intensity of colour. The leavesare much divided, with numerous small[ egg-shaped or lance-shaped deeply cut seg-l ments; the upper leaves are smaller. Wheni bruised they emit a peculiarly nauseousodour, not at all aromatic, as is usually thecase in our native umbelliferous inflorescence is a compound umbel,with ten or more rays, surrounded by ageneral involucre of three to seven leaf-lets ; the partial umbels or umbellules,have at their base a small involucre of threebracts, which are all turned to one side,and do not surround the umbel, as in thecase of the genera
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