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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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    Wie cS) cS) OF THE CLASSES, ORDERS, AND GENERA. XXXiil Ord. VI. Hexanpria. 6 stamens. Errocauton. Flowers collected into a compact scaly head. — Barren flowers in the centre. Perianth single, 4—6-cleft, the inner segments united nearly to their summit. Stam, 4—6.-— Fertile flowers in the circumference. Perianth single, deeply 4- partite. Style 1. Stigmas 2—3. Caps. 2—3-lobed, 2—3-celled. Cells 1-seeded. p. 354. (See Quercus in Ord. Potyanprtra.) CrraTornyitium. Barren fl. Cal. inferior, multipartite. Cor. 0. Stam, 16—20.— Fertile fl. Cal. multipartite. Cor. 0. Ger- men 1, Style filiform, curved. Stigma simple. Nué superior, 1- seeded. p. 116. Myriopuytium. Barren fl. Cal. inferior, of 4 leaves. Pet. 4. Stam. 8.— Fertile fl. Cal. of 4 leaves. Pet. 4. Stigmas 4, ses- sile. Nuts 4, sessile, subglobose, 1-seeded. p. 114. SacirTarta. Barren fl. Cal. 3-leaved. Pet, 3. Stam. numerous. — Fertile fl. Cal. 3-\eaved. Pet. 3. Pistils very numerous, collected into ahead. Pericarps \-seeded, compressed, margined. . 332. Ani. Spatha of one leaf, convolute at the base. Perianth 0. Spadix with germens at the base. Stam. (sessile) near the middle of the spadiv, which is naked above. Berry with 1 cedl and many seeds, p. 335. at the base of each ; upper ones fertile. — Barren fl. Cal. of 4 deep segments. Cor. 0, Stam. 30—40, with very long flaccid filaments. — Fertile ff. Cal. tubular, contracted at the mouth, with 4 deciduous teeth. Pistils 2. Stigmas tufted. Pericarps 2, 1-seeded, invested with the hardened 4-angled tube of the calyx. p. 102. 5—7-cleft. Stam. 5—10.— Fertile fl. Involucre of many little scales united into a cup. Perianth single, closely investing the germen, 6-toothed. Germen 3-celled. Style 1. Stigmas 3. Nut (or acorn) 1-celled, 1-seeded, covered by the persistent enlarged perianth, and surrounded at the base by the enlarged cup-shaped involucre. p. 326. Facus. Barren fl. in a globose catkin. Perianth single, of 1 leaf, campanulate, 6-cleft. Stam. 5—12.— Fertile fl. 2, within a 4- lobed prickly involucre. Perianth single, urceolate, with 4—5 minute lobes. G'ermen incorporated with the perianth, 3-celled, 2 becoming abortive. Styles 3. Nuts 1-seeded, invested with the enlarged involucre. p. 325. single, of 1 leaf, 6-cleft. Stam. 5—20.— Fertile fl. 3, within a 4-lobed, thickly muricated involucre. Perianth single, urceolate, 5—6-lobed, having the rudiments of 12 stam. Germen incorpo- rated with the perianth, 6-celled, each cell 2-seeded, 5 of the cells mostly abortive. Styles 6. Nut 1-seeded, invested with the en- larged involucre. p. 325. Perianth 0. Stam. 1O—12. — Fertile fl. Scale of the catkin im- perfectly 3-lobed, 3-flowered. Perianth 0. Styles 2. Germen b
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