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
13. Cistaceæ (p. 76). Flowers regular; sepals and petals 5, the two
outer sepals minute. Stamens indefinite. Pod 1-celled, 3--5-valved.
Ovules orthotropous. Embryo curved. Leaves entire, the lower often
opposite.
14. Violaceæ (p. 78). Flowers irregular; sepals and petals 5. Stamens 5,
with connivent introrse anthers. Style clavate. Pod 1-celled, 3-valved.
Ovules anatropous. Embryo straight. Stipules present.
[*] 3. Ovary compound, 1-celled, with central placentæ; embryo curved
around mealy albumen (except in Dianthus); leaves entire; stipules
mostly none.
15. Caryophyllaceæ (p. 82). Sepals (5, rarely 4) distinct or united,
persistent. Petals as many, rarely none. Stamens as many or twice as
many, rarely fewer. Styles 2--5. Leaves opposite.
16. Portulacaceæ (p. 90). Sepals 2. Petals 5. Stamens 5--20. Capsule
3-valved or circumscissile. Fleshy herbs; leaves mostly alternate.
[*] 4. Calyx imbricate; stamens as many or twice as many as the petals
or often indefinite; ovary compound, 1-celled with parietal placentæ or
several-celled with the placentæ united in the axis; embryo straight or
slightly curved; albumen none or scanty.
17. Elatinaceæ (p. 91). Small marsh annuals, with opposite leaves,
membranous stipules, minute axillary flowers, few stamens, and pod
2--5-celled.
18. Hypericaceæ (p. 92). Herbs or shrubs, with opposite entire dotted
leaves and no stipules. Flowers cymose or panicled. Stamens few or many,
usually in 3 or more clusters. Pod 1-celled or 3--5-celled.
19. Ternstrœmiaceæ (p. 95). Trees or shrubs, with alternate leaves
and no stipules. Flowers large, axillary, solitary. Stamens numerous,
more or less united together and with the base of the petals. Pod
3--5-celled.
[*] 5. Calyx valvate; stamens numerous, usually more or less united
together and with the base of the petals; ovary 3--many-celled with the
placentæ united in the axis (becoming 1-celled and 1-seeded in Tilia).
20. Malvaceæ (p. 96). Stamens monadelphous; anthers 1-celled. Calyx
persistent. Seeds kidney-shaped, with curved embryo and little albumen.
Herbs or shrubs, with alternate palmately veined stipular leaves.
21. Tiliaceæ (p. 101). Stamens polyadelphous or nearly distinct; anthers
2-celled. Calyx deciduous. Embryo nearly straight. Trees, with alternate
leaves and deciduous stipules.
[B.] DISCIFLORÆ. Stamens as many as the petals or twice as many or
fewer, inserted upon or at the outer or inner base of a more or less
tumid hypogynous or perigynous disk, which is cushion-like or annular or
divided into glands, sometimes obscure or minute (or none in Linum,
Ilex, some Geraniaceæ and Polygala); ovary superior (or half-inferior in
some Rhamnaceæ); sepals more usually distinct. Petals wanting in some
Rutaceæ, Rhamnaceæ, and Sapindaceæ.
[*] 1. Ovules (mostly 1 or 2 in each cell) pendulous, with the rhaphe
toward the axis of the ovary; disk often reduced to glands alternate
with the petals or none; ovary often lobed or the carpels nearly
distinct.
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