Title: An encyclopedia of plants; : comprising the specific culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain: combining much of the information contained
Identifier: 01063918.91195.emory.edu
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Botany
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Order II. MONANDRIA DIGYNIA. 9
190 Leaves entire somewhat 3-nerved, Stems nearly round
121 Spikes compound, Stem decumbent
122 Spike simple solitary, Stem upright
123 Spikes 2-4 simple, Stem upright, Leaves thick DIGYNIA.
124 Spikes terminal, Flowers distant, Leaves nerveless and bractes unarmed
125 Spikes axillary, Flowers close imbricat. Leaves nerveless and bractes mucronate pungent
126 Spikes terminal, Flowers becoming remote, Leaves nerveless and bractes pungent, Fruit incurved
127 Spikes terminal and axillary, Flowers imbricate, Leaves and bractes mucronate, Stem villous
128 A small floating plant resembling Lemna
129 Heads in terminal spikes
130 Heads lateral scattered
131 Heads axillary small not juicy, Stem very branching
132 A stinging twining perennial plant
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27. Callitriche. From xaXXus or xakos, and S-fiJ, hair. Le Callitrice, Fr. Der Wasserstirn, Ger., and Call/, trica, ItaL A little aquatic plant, liable to variation in its appearance; on which account some botanists have divided it into several species.

28. Blitum. From p\irtn, insipid, or, according to Dr. Theis, from the Celtic blith, which has the same in- port. Le Elite, Fr. Die Beermelde, Ger., and Slito, ItaL After the flowers are past, the heads swell to the size of wood-strawberries, and when ripe have the same color and appearance. They are succulent, stain the hands, and were formerly used by cooks for coloring puddings. Some consider the B. virgatum as only a variety of the other.

29. Aspicarpa. From etffitif, a round shield, and *ce^mt, fruit, In reference to the form of the ripe fruit

32. Olea. Cor. 4-cleft Segments subovate. Drupe one-seeded.

33. Phillyrea. Cor. 4-cleft Berry one-seeded.

34. Chionanthus. Cor. 4-cleft Segments very long. Drupe one-seeded, with a furrowed nut

35. Notetea. Cal. 4-toothed. Cor. 4 short oval petals united by the base of the stamens. Filaments 4-homed. Style O. Stigma bifid. Drupe with a papery putamen.

36. Ligustrum. Cor. 4-cleft Berry 4-seeded.

37. Syringa. Cat. 4-cleft. Capsule of two cells.

38. Nyctanthes. Cor. 4-cleft Segments truncated. Caps, with two cells edged. Seeds solitary.

39. Jasminum. Cor. 5 or 8-cleft. Berry with two divisions. Seeds solitary with an arillus. § 2. Flowers complete, inferior, monopetalous, irregular.

40. Veronica. Car. 4-cleft: limb flatfish; the lowest segment the narrowest. Capsule 2-ecllcd.

41. Galipea. Cor 4 or 5-deft, hypocrateriform. St am. 4: 2-sterile.

42. Schwenkia. Cat. nearly equal: the orifice plaited, stellate, and glandular. Stain. 5: 3-sterile. Capsule 2-celled.

43. Gratiola. Cor. 4-cleft, 2-lipped, resupinate. Stamens 4: 2-sterile. Caps. 2-celled.

44. Schizanthus. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. 2-lipped resupinate: the upper lip 5-parted, the lower 3-parted. Stam. 4, 2-sterile. Caps. 2-valved, 2-celled.

45. Elytraria. CaL 4-5-parted. Cor. 5-cleft, nearly equal Caps. 2-valved, 2-celled. Seeds attached below to a dissepiment contrary to the valves.

46. Hypoestes. CaL 5-cleft equal, with a 4-cleft 3-flowered Involucrum. Cor. 2-lipped. Stamens 2. Anther.. 1-celled. Seeds fixed by little hooks.

47. Justicia. CaL 5-parted equal. Cor. 2-lipped or ringent: the lower lip divided. Anthers 2-celled. S;eds attached by little hooks.

48. Dicliptera. CaL 5-parted. Cor. bilabiate Caps, with two elastic valves, ; 2-celled, the dissepiment re- taining the seeds by its inflexed toothed edge.

49. Eranthcmum. CaL 5-parted. Cor. 5-cleft, with the tube curved in the middle; Caps, many seeded.

50. Wulfenia. Cor. 4-cleft: smooth bearded. CaL 5-parted Caps. 2-celled.

51. Calceolaria. Cat. ringent, inflated. CaL 4-cleft Caps. 2-celled, 4-valved.

52. Pinguicula. Cat. ringent, spurred. CaL 5-cleft Caps. 1-celled.

53. UtnctUaria. Cat. ringent, spurred. CaL 2-leaved. Caps. 1-celled.

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