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
With 2 or more parietal very many-seeded placentæ; stamens 4.
OROBANCHACEÆ, 393
Ovary and fruit more or less 4--5-celled. PEDALIACEÆ, 399
Ovary and pod 2-celled, but the 2 placentæ parietal.
BIGNONIACEÆ, 398
Ovary and pod 2-celled; placentæ in the axis.
Seeds rarely few, not on hooks, with albumen.
SCROPHULARIACEÆ, 377
Seeds few, borne on hook-like or other projections of the
placentæ; no albumen. ACANTHACEÆ, 399
[*][*] _Corolla somewhat irregular; stamens (with anthers) 5._
Stamens free from the corolla; anthers with their cells opening by a
hole or chink at the top. Rhododendron, in ERICACEÆ, 320
Stamens inserted on the corolla.
Ovary deeply 4-lobed around the style. Echium, in BORRAGINACEÆ, 367
Ovary not lobed; pod many-seeded.
Filaments or some of them woolly. Verbascum, SCROPHULARIACEÆ, 379
Filaments not woolly. Hyoscyamus, SOLANACEÆ, 376
[*][*][*] _Corolla regular._
[+] _Stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla._
Ovaries 2, separate; their
Styles and stigmas also wholly separate.
Dichondra, CONVOLVULACEÆ, 368
Stigmas and sometimes styles united into one.
Filaments distinct; pollen in ordinary grains. APOCYNACEÆ, 337
Filaments monadelphous; pollen in masses. ASCLEPIADACEÆ, 338
Ovary one, but deeply 4-lobed around the style (or 2-lobed in
Heliotropium).
Leaves alternate. BORRAGINACEÆ, 360
Leaves opposite. Mentha, in LABIATÆ, 407
Ovary one; pod 2-lobed or 2-horned at the summit. LOGANIACEÆ, 345
Ovary one; not deeply lobed,
One-celled, one-ovuled, becoming an achene. PLANTAGINACEÆ, 422
One-celled, with ovules parietal or on 2 parietal placentæ.
Leaves (or in Menyanthes three leaflets) entire. GENTIANACEÆ, 346
Leaves toothed, lobed, or pinnately compound. HYDROPHYLLACEÆ, 357
Two- to ten-celled.
Leafless parasitic twining plants. Cuscuta, in CONVOLVULACEÆ, 370
Leaves opposite, their bases or petioles connected by stipules or
a stipular line. LOGANIACEÆ, 345
Leaves when opposite without stipules.
Stamens free from the corolla or nearly so; style 1.
ERICACEÆ, 309
Stamens almost free from the corolla; style none. ILICINEÆ, 107
Stamens in the sinuses of the corolla; style 1. DIAPENSIACEÆ, 326
Stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla,
Four; pod 2-celled, circumscissile. PLANTAGINACEÆ, 422
Four; ovary 2--4-celled; ovules solitary. VERBENACEÆ, 401
Five or rarely more.
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