The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee — John Shaqi
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
Fruit of two or four seed-like nutlets. BORRAGINACEÆ, 360
Fruit a few-seeded pod.
Calyx 5-cleft; style 3-lobed or -cleft. POLEMONIACEÆ, 354
Sepals 5; styles 1 or 2, entire or 2-cleft; seeds large,
only one or two in a cell. CONVOLVULACEÆ, 367
Fruit a many-seeded pod or berry.
Styles 2. Hydrolea, in HYDROPHYLLACEÆ, 360
Style single. SOLANACEÆ, 373
[+][+] _Stamens fewer than the lobes of the corolla._
Stamens 4, didynamous.
Ovary 2-celled; the cells several-seeded. ACANTHACEÆ, 399
Ovary 2--4-celled; the cells 1-seeded. VERBENACEÆ, 401
Stamens only 2 with anthers; ovary 4-lobed. Lycopus, in LABIATÆ, 408
Stamens 2, rarely 3; ovary 2-celled.
Low herbs; corolla scarious, withering on the pod.
PLANTAGINACEÆ, 422
Herbs; corolla rotate, or somewhat funnelform, and slightly
irregular. Veronica, in SCROPHULARIACEÆ, 386
Shrubs or trees; corolla perfectly regular. OLEACEÆ, 335
DIVISION III. APETALOUS: corolla (and sometimes calyx) wanting.
[A.] _Flowers not in catkins._
[1.] _Ovary or its cells containing many ovules._
Ovary and pod inferior (i.e. calyx-tube adherent to the ovary),
Six-celled; stamens 6--12. ARISTOLOCHIACEÆ, 444
Four-celled; stamens 4. Ludwigia, in ONAGRACEÆ, 187
One-celled, with parietal placentæ.
Chrysosplenium, in SAXIFRAGACEÆ, 172
Ovary and pod wholly naked (there being no calyx),
Two-celled, 2-beaked; flowers capitate; tree. HAMAMELIDEÆ, 179
Two-celled, many-ribbed; aquatic herb. PODOSTEMACEÆ, 444
Ovary and pod superior, i.e. free from the calyx.
Five-celled and 5-beaked, opening across the beaks, which fall off
at maturity; stamens 10. Penthorum, in CRASSULACEÆ, 176
Three-celled and 3-valved, or 3--5-celled and circumscissile.
FICOIDEÆ, 198
Two-celled or one-celled; placentæ central.
Stamens inserted on the throat or tube of the calyx.
LYTHRACEÆ, 184
Stamens inserted on the receptacle or the base of the calyx,
Alternate with the 5 sepals. Glaux, in PRIMULACEÆ, 331
Opposite the sepals when of the same number. CARYOPHYLLACEÆ, 82
One-celled, with one parietal placenta. RANUNCULACEÆ, 34
Ovaries 2 or more, separate, simple. RANUNCULACEÆ, 34
[2.] _Ovary or its cells containing only 1 or 2, rarely 3 or 4, ovules._
[*] _Pistils more than one, and distinct or nearly so._
Stamens inserted on the calyx; leaves with stipules. ROSACEÆ, 150
Stamens inserted on the receptacle.
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