A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the (14580549040)

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Title: A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Wood, Alphonso, 1810-1881
Subjects: Botany Plants -- United States Plants -- Canada
Publisher: Boston, Crocker & Brewster
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden



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Leaves 10—15 by 1—2, very numerous. Jn.—Aug. Order LV. ONAGRACE^.—Onagrads. Plantu herbaceous, ?omeliiries shrubby, with alternate or opposite leaves.Fls. axillarv, or in terminal spikes or racemes. CaV.—Sepals 4. (2—6) united below into a tube, the lobes valvate in testivation. Cot— ( Petals 4, (i—6) inserted with ihe 4 or 8 (1—2—3—8) stamens into the throat of the calys. PollenSta.— (triangular, often coherinir by threads.Ova. coherent with the tube of Ihe caly.v ; placenta in the axis.Pr. baccate or capsular, 2—4 celled, many-seeded. Albumen none.Genera 3€, Ri>ecies 520, particularly nbund.int throughout America, more rare in the Old World. They LV. ONAGRACE^. Epilobium. possess no remarkable properties. Maiiy genera are ornamental, and one, the well known Fuchsia, is soto a high degree. To this order is appended the suborder Ualorae-e<z, consisting of aquatic herbs of a low grade, theflowers being imperfect or reduced to solitary parts or organs.
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PIG. 45.—1. Flower of (Enothera fruticosa. 2. Plan of the flower. 3. Section of the 4-celled capsuleof (E. biennis. 5. Hippuris vulararis-, 6, its flower, with 1 stamen, 1 ovary, 1 style. 4. Vertical sectionof its l-seeded fruit. 7. Circa;a Lutetiana. 8. The flower enlarged. 9. Plan of the flower. 10. Verticalsection of the 2-celled and 2-seeded fruit. Conspectus of the Genera. !Pet. scarcely < Seeds comose. Epilobium. 1 clawed; I Seeds naked. (Enothera. 2 \ Claws unarmed. Gaura. 5 Pet. clawed; \ Claws with 2teeth. Clarkia. 3 \ Sta. 8; \ Beautiful ereen-house shrubs. . . Fuchsia. 4 < Fls.perf \ Stamens 4 ; styles united into 1. ... Ludwigia. 6 (by4s; ^Flowers monoecious ; aquatic; leaves multifid. . . Mi/riophyUum.9 ) by 3s; flowers apetalous ; aquatic ; leaves pectinate. . . . Proserpinaca. 8 J by 2s; flowers complete and regular; leaves dentate. . . . Circcea. 7 Fartsoffl.arrangd (.by is; flowers apetalous; aquatic; leaves verticillate. . . . Hippuris. 10 Tribe 1. OXAGRE.i3.