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
Stipules not scarious, leaves palmately cleft or palmately
compound. Cannabineæ, in URTICACEÆ, 461
Stipules scarious (or none); leaves opposite.
ILLECEBRACEÆ, 426
Stipules none; but flowers with scarious bracts.
AMARANTACEÆ, 427
Stipules and scarious bracts none. CHENOPODIACEÆ, 430
Shrubs or trees.
Ovules a pair in each cell of the ovary.
Fruit 2-celled, a double samara. Acerineæ, in SAPINDACEÆ, 115
Fruit a 1-celled and 1-seeded samara or a drupe.
OLEACEÆ, 335
Ovules single in each cell of the
Three-nine-celled ovary; leaves heath-like. EMPETRACEÆ, 487
Three-celled ovary; leaves broad. RHAMNACEÆ, 111
One--two-celled ovary; styles or stigmas 2-cleft.
URTICACEÆ, 461
One-celled ovary; style and stigma single and entire.
Anthers opening longitudinally. THYMELÆACEÆ, 448
Anthers opening by uplifted valves. LAURACEÆ, 446
[B.] _Flowers monœcious or diœcious, one or both sorts in catkins._
[1.] _Only one sort of flowers in catkins or catkin-like heads._
Fertile flowers in a short catkin, head, or strobile. URTICACEÆ, 461
Fertile flowers single or clustered; sterile in slender catkins
(except in Fagus).
Leaves pinnate; fertile flowers and fruit naked. JUGLANDACEÆ, 467
Leaves simple; fertile flowers 1--3 in an involucre or cup.
CUPULIFERÆ, 470
[2.] _Both sterile and fertile flowers in catkins or catkin-like heads._
Ovary and pod 2-celled, many-seeded. Liquidambar, in HAMAMELIDEÆ, 180
Ovary and pod 1-celled, many-seeded; seeds furnished with a downy tuft
at one end. SALICACEÆ, 480
Ovary 1--2-celled, only one ovule in each cell; fruit 1-seeded.
Parasitic on trees; fruit a berry. LORANTHACEÆ, 449
Trees or shrubs, not parasitic.
Calyx regular, in the fertile flower succulent in fruit.
URTICACEÆ, 461
Calyx none, or rudimentary and scale-like.
Style and stigma one, simple; the flowers in heads.
PLATANACEÆ, 466
Styles or long stigmas 2.
Fertile flowers 2 or 3 at each scale of the catkin.
CUPULIFERÆ, 470
Fertile flowers single under each scale; nutlets naked,
waxy-coated or drupe like. MYRICACEÆ, 469
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