Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes.
- Robert Darwin
- Date:
- 1787
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![t &7 ] Class XII. I C O S A N D R I A. (Twenty stamina or males.) The plants of this clafs furnisheth most cf the cat- able fruits in esteem ; none are noxious except the cherry-laurel. The flowers bear the following character: ist. A calyx of one leaf, and concave. 2d. The corolla fastened by its claws into the inner side of the calyx * 3d The stamina, twenty or more, inserted also in- to the inner side of the calyx or corolla. Oas. As the number of stamina in this clafs is not limited, great attention must be had to the above char- after, to distinguish it from the next clafs (polyandria), where the stamina are inserted into the receptacle. This clafs contains Jive orders. Order I. MONOGYNIA. / (One female.) no. genera, growth. native of species in Brit. 1 CaftiiSjf Calyx above. s 24 W. Indies. Mexico. ** i 2 Eugenia, * When ♦he corolla is inserted into the calyx, it always consists of many petals ; and the Calyx, of one leaf. + The cochineal animals are supported on a-species of the eaclus, called caftus cockenillijer.—The flower of the caElus grandiflora (one of the creep- ing cereuses) is said to be as grand and beautiful as any in the vegetable sys- tem : It begins to open in the everting about seven o’clock, is in perfection about eleven, and fades about four in the morning, so that the same flower only continues in perfe&ion about six hours. The calyx when expanded is tbout a foot in diameter, of a splendid yellow within, and a dark brown 'without*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28764754_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
