The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and TennesseeGray, Asa
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The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee
Gray, Asa
Plants -- United States
72. Borraginaceæ (p. 360). Leaves mostly entire and plants often
rough-hispid; inflorescence commonly scorpioid. Style 1. Ovary
4-ovulate, usually 4-lobed and maturing as 4 separate or separable
nutlets, or not lobed, 2--4-celled and separating when ripe into 2 or 4
nutlets.
73. Convolvulaceæ (p. 367). Usually twining or trailing; flowers on
axillary peduncles or cymose-glomerate. Corolla 5-lobed or 5-plaited,
twisted in the bud. Styles 1 or 2. Ovary 2- (sometimes 3- or spuriously
4-) celled, becoming a globular 4--6-seeded capsule (or ovaries two and
distinct in Dichondra). Cotyledons broad-foliaceous.
74. Solanaceæ (p. 373). Style 1. Ovary 2-celled (rarely 3--5-celled),
with numerous ovules on axillary placentæ, becoming a pod or berry.
Cotyledons narrow.
[++][++][++] Corolla more or less bilabiately irregular (sometimes
nearly regular), 5-lobed. Fertile stamens 4 and didynamous, or 2. Style
1. Ovary always of two carpels.
[a.] Ovules several or many.
75. Scrophulariaceæ (p. 377). Capsule 2-celled, with central placentæ.
Seeds small, usually numerous. Herbs; leaves alternate or opposite.
76. Orobanchaceæ (p. 393). Root-parasites with no green foliage. Capsule
1-celled, with 2 simple or double parietal placentæ. Seeds many.
77. Lentibulariaceæ (p. 395). Aquatic or marsh herbs, with scapes or
scape-like peduncles, sometimes nearly leafless. Corolla personate and
spurred. Capsule globular, 1-celled; placentæ central, free,
many-seeded.
78. Bignoniaceæ (p. 398). Large-flowered trees or often climbing shrubs,
with usually opposite simple or compound leaves. Capsule 2-celled by a
partition between the 2 parietal placentæ. Seeds numerous, large, mostly
winged.
79. Pedaliaceæ (p. 399). Herbs, with opposite simple leaves. Ovary
1-celled with two bilamellar parietal placentæ, or 2--4-celled by their
union, becoming drupaceous or capsular. Seeds few or many, wingless.
80. Acanthaceæ (p. 399). Herbs, with opposite simple leaves. Capsule
2-celled, loculicidal, with each axile placenta bearing 2--10 flattish
seeds.
[b.] Cells of the ovary 1--2-ovuled; herbs or low shrubs, with opposite
leaves.
81. Verbenaceæ (p. 401). Ovary 2--4-celled, not lobed, the dry or
drupaceous fruit separating into 2 or 4 1-seeded nutlets (fruit 1-celled
and 1-seeded in Phryma). Style terminal.
82. Labiatæ (p. 403). Ovary deeply 4-lobed around the style, the lobes
becoming dry seed-like nutlets. Stems square; aromatic.
[+][+] Corolla scarious and nerveless; flowers regular, 4-merous; style
1.
83. Plantaginaceæ (p. 422). Scapose herbs, with perfect or
polygamo-diœcious or monœcious flowers in 1--many-flowered spikes.
Fruit a circumscissile 2-celled capsule, with one or more peltate seeds
in each cell, or an achene.
DIVISION III. APETALOUS EXOGENS. The corolla wanting (except in some
Euphorbiaceæ), and sometimes also the calyx.
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