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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![/ l >54 ] APPENDIX. Consisting of such plants, which though capable of being arranged in the several clafses of the system, yet on account of their singular stru&ure, Linnaeus hath ^rather chose to place apart in an appendix, under the head of Palm£, containing such gtner'g,, as have a spadix and spatha, (i. e.) whose flowers and fruit are pro- duced, on that particular receptacle or seat called a spa- dix, protruded from a common calyx in form of a sheath called spatha; and consists of trees and shrubs only.— These terms were originally only applied to palms, but now are applied to nareijsus, snowdrop, orchis, &c. no. PALM JE * (Palms spathed, three-petal’d.) genera. growth. native of ist. Fan-leaved, (fouo houses.) Drupa. 1 Borafsus, s 1 Malabar. 2 Chamaerops, s l Spain. 3 Corypha, (owe house} s l India. sd. Feather-leaved, houses.) Drupa. 4 Elais, s l Guinea, species in Brit. 5 Phoenix, * Prt/ws have always a simple stem, not branched, bearing leaves at the top, resembling those of /erfl, being a composition of a leaf and a branch, called frondes; and the cero/Az hath always three petals, or three deep divisions. It is remarkable that if the male flowers of the palm are got at a proper time and dried, the pollen will be prolific if kept a year or upwards j and the same hath been observed of the male pistacia.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28764754_0168.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
