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The British flora; in two volumes. Vol. I., comprising the Phaenogamous, or flowering plants, and the ferns / [Sir William Jackson Hooker].

  • William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1842
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Credit: The British flora; in two volumes. Vol. I., comprising the Phaenogamous, or flowering plants, and the ferns / [Sir William Jackson Hooker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. Carex. Flowers collected into an imbricated spike. Calyx (as it is usually called) a scale. — Barren fl. Cor. 0. — Fertile fl. Cor. of | piece, urceolate, swollen. Stigmas 2—3. Nut triquetrous, included within the persistent corolla (which is thus considered to form part of the fruit). p. 421. 8. Etyna. Spikelets 2-flowered, upper one sterile, lower one fertile (sometimes 1 is wanting), included in a broad sheathing bractea, and each within a convolute scale. Cal. 0. Cor. 0. — Barren ji- Stam. 3.— Fertile fl. Pistil 1. Stiomas 8. Nut obtusely tri- gonal, surrounded by its convolute scale. —p. 420. In habit nearly allied to Scirpus, and still more closely to Blysmus ; but the flowers are monecious : it has not the urceolate corolla of Carew. Ord. IV. Terranpria. 4 stamens. 9. Lirroretia, Barren fl. Cal. of 4 leaves. Cor. 4efid. Stam. very long. — Fertile fi. Cal. 0 (unless three bracteas can be so called). Cor, urceolate, contracted at the mouth, Style very long. Caps. 1-seeded. p. 273. 10. Atnus. Flowers collected into imbricated catkins. — Barren ots Scale of the catkin 3-lobed, with 3 flowers. Perianth single, 4- partite. — Fertile fl. Scale of the catkin subtrifid, with 2 flowers. Perianth 0. Styles 2. Nut compressed. p- 30]. 11. Buxus. Flowers clustered, axillary. — Barren fl. Perianth single, of 4 leaves, 2 opposite ones smaller (with one bractea at the base). Rudiment of a germen. — Fertile fl. Cal.as in the barren fl. (with 3 bracteas at the base). Styles 3. Caps. with 3 beaks, 3-celled ; cells 2-seeded. p. 295. 12. Urrica. Barren fl. Perianth single, of 4 leaves, containing the cup-shaped rudiment of a pistid. — Fertile fl. Perianth single, of 2 leaves. Pericarp 1-seeded, shining. p. 296. (See Ertocauton in Ord. VI.; Myrica in Cl. XXII.) Ord. V. PENTANDRIA. 5 stamens. 13, Xanrntum. Barren fl. Involucre of few scales, with many small, capitate flowers, upon a common receptacle. Cal.0. Cor. obo. vate, sessile. Anthers terminating a tube which is inserted at the base of the cor. Germen abortive. — Fertile fl. Involucre single, prickly, with 2 beaks entirely enclosing 2 flowers; the 2 stigmas only protruded from small apertures within the beaks. Cal. 0. Cor, 0. Fruit 1-seeded, included in the enlarged and hardened involucre. p. 201. 14, Amaranruus. Barren fl. Perianth single, deeply 3—5-partite. Stam, 3—5.— Fertile fl. Perianth single, deeply 3—5-partite. Styles 3 or 2, Capsule of 1 cell, with 1 seed, bursting all round transversely. p. 274. 15. Bryonia. Barren fl. Cal. 5-toothed. Cor, 5-cleft. Filaments 3. Anthers 5,— Fertile fl. Cal. 5-dentate. Cor. 5-cleft. Style trifid. Berry inferior, globose, many-seeded. _p. 118.
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