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
22. Linaceæ (p. 101). Flowers regular, usually 5-merous. Capsule not
lobed, mostly 5-valved, spuriously 10-celled, 10-seeded. Stamens united
at base. Disk none or 5 minute glands. Herbs, with entire alternate or
opposite leaves; stipules gland-like or none.
23. Geraniaceæ (p. 102). Flowers regular or irregular, 5-merous or
3-merous as to the stamens and pistils. Ovary 3--5-lobed, the cells
1--few-ovuled, and axis persistent. Disk of 5 glands or none. Herbs,
with often lobed or divided mostly alternate leaves, with or without
stipules.
24. Rutaceæ (p. 106). Flowers mostly regular, 3--5-merous, diœcious
or polygamous in our genera. Ovary 2--5-lobed or the carpels nearly
distinct, upon a glandular disk; cells 2-ovuled. Mostly shrubs or trees,
with glandular-punctate compound leaves, without stipules.
[*] 2. Ovules (1 or 2) pendulous, the rhaphe away from the axis; disk
none and ovary not lobed.
25. Ilicineæ (p. 107). Flowers small, diœciously polygamous,
axillary, 4--8-merous. Fruit a 4--8-seeded berry-like drupe. Shrubs or
trees, with simple alternate leaves and no stipules.
[*] 3. Ovules (1 or 2 in each cell) erect, the rhaphe toward the axis;
disk fleshy, covering the base of the calyx; stamens as many as the
petals, at the margin of the disk; flowers perfect or polygamo-diœcious;
albumen fleshy; shrubs or trees, with simple leaves (compound in some
Vitaceæ).
26. Celastraceæ (p. 109). Sepals and petals imbricated, the stamens
alternate with the petals. Fruit 2--5-celled; seeds arilled.
27. Rhamnaceæ (p. 111). Calyx valvate. Petals small or none. Stamens
alternate with the sepals. Fruit 2--5-celled; seeds solitary, not
arilled.
28. Vitaceæ (p. 112). Calyx minute. Stamens opposite the valvate
caducous petals. Climbing by tendrils opposite the alternate leaves.
[*] 4. Ovules (1 or 2) ascending or horizontal, or pendulous from a
basal funicle; fleshy disk entire or lobed; stamens 5--10; shrubs or
trees, with compound leaves (simple in Acer) and mostly
polygamo-diœcious and often irregular flowers; petals imbricate
(sometimes none in Sapindaceæ).
29. Sapindaceæ (p. 115). Flowers mostly unsymmetrical or irregular.
Ovary 2--3-celled and -lobed.
30. Anacardiaceæ (p. 118). Flowers regular, 5-androus. Ovary 1-celled,
becoming a small dry drupe. Leaves alternate; juice milky or resinous.
[*] 5. Ovules solitary, pendulous from the summit of the 2-celled ovary;
disk none; flowers irregular (subpapilionaceous), hypogynous; stamens
monadelphous or diadelphous; anthers 1-celled, opening by an apical
pore.
31. Polygalaceæ (p. 120). Herbs, with perfect flowers and alternate or
opposite or whorled entire leaves. Stamens 6--8. Seed carunculate.
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