Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd ed.Sargent, Charles Sprague
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd ed.
Sargent, Charles Sprague
Trees -- North America
I. Pinaceæ (p. 1). Flowers usually monœcious; ovules 2 or several;
fruit a woody cone (_in Juniperus berry-like_); cotyledons 2
or many; leaves needle-shaped, linear or scale-like,
persistent (_deciduous in Larix and Taxodium_).
II. Taxaceæ (p. 90). Flowers diœcious, axillary, solitary; ovules 1;
fruit surrounded by or inclosed in the enlarged fleshy
aril-like disk of the flower; cotyledons 2; leaves linear,
alternate, persistent.
Class II. ANGIOSPERMÆ.
Carpels or pistils consisting of a closed cavity containing the ovules
and becoming the fruit.
Division I. MONOCOTYLEDONS.
Stems with woody fibres distributed irregularly through them, but
without pith or annual layers of growth; parts of the flower in 3’s;
ovary superior, 3-celled; embryo with a single cotyledon; leaves
parallel-veined, persistent, without stipules.
III. Palmæ (p. 96). Ovule solitary; fruit baccate or drupaceous, 1 or
rarely 2 or 3-seeded; leaves alternate, pinnate, flabellate or
orbicular, persistent.
IV. Liliaceæ (p. 110). Ovules numerous in each cell; fruit 3-celled,
capsular or baccate; leaves linear-lanceolate.
Division II. DICOTYLEDONS.
Stems formed of bark, wood, or pith, and increasing by the addition of
an annual layer of wood inside the bark; parts of the flower mostly in
4’s or 5’s; embryo with a pair of opposite cotyledons; leaves
netted-veined.
Subdivision 1. Apetalæ. Flowers without a corolla and sometimes without
a calyx.
Section 1. Flowers in unisexual aments (_female flowers of Juglans and
Quercus solitary or in spikes_); ovary inferior (_superior in
Leitneriaceæ_) when a calyx is present.
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