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
Stamens 10, monadelphous at the base. Leaflets 3,
inversely heart-shaped. Oxalis, in GERANIACEÆ, 105
Stamens distinct, free from the calyx.
Style 1, undivided. ERICACEÆ, 303
Styles 2--5, separate. CARYOPHYLLACEÆ, 82
Stamens distinct, inserted on the calyx.
Styles 2 (or 3), or splitting into 2 in fruit.
SAXIFRAGACEÆ, 168
Style 1; pod in the calyx, 1-celled. LYTHRACEÆ, 184
[2.] _Calyx-tube adherent to the ovary, at least to its lower half._
Tendril-bearing and often succulent herbs. CUCURBITACEÆ, 194
Not tendril-bearing.
Ovules and seeds more than one in each cell.
Ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled from the base. PORTULACACEÆ, 90
Ovary 1-celled, with 2 or 3 parietal placentæ. SAXIFRAGACEÆ, 168
Ovary 2--several-celled.
Anthers opening by pores at the apex; style 1.
MELASTOMACEÆ, 183
Anthers not opening by pores.
Stamens on a flat disk which covers the ovary.
CELASTRACEÆ, 109
Stamens inserted on the calyx.
Eight or four (rarely five); style 1. ONAGRACEÆ, 186
Five or ten; styles 2--3, distinct. SAXIFRAGACEÆ, 168
Ovules and seeds only one in each cell.
Stamens 10 or 5 (instead of many),--
rarely in Cratægus, in ROSACEÆ, 165
Stamens 2 or 8; style 1; stigma 2--4-lobed; herbs.
ONAGRACEÆ, 186
Stamens 4 or 8; aquatics; styles or sessile stigmas 4.
HALORAGEÆ, 180
Perfect stamens 4; styles 2; shrub. HAMAMELIDEÆ, 179
Stamens 4; style and stigma 1; chiefly shrubs. CORNACEÆ, 213
Stamens 5; flowers in umbels, or rarely in heads.
Fruit dry, splitting in two at maturity; styles 2.
UMBELLIFERÆ, 193
Fruit berry-like; styles 2--5, separate or united.
ARALIACEÆ, 212
Division II. GAMOPETALOUS calyx and corolla both present; the latter
with its petals united more or less into one piece.
[A.] _Stamens more numerous than the lobes of the corolla._
Ovary 1-celled with one parietal placenta. LEGUMINOSÆ, 122
Ovary 1-celled with two parietal placentæ.
Adlumia, &c., in Fumariaceæ, 60
Ovary 1-celled with the ovules at the centre or base. STYRACACEÆ, 333
Ovary 2-celled with a single ovule in each cell. POLYGALACEÆ, 120
Ovary 3--many-celled.
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