Identifier: floraofsyriapalest00post (find matches)
Title: Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Post, George Edward, 1838-1909
Subjects: Botany -- Syria Botany -- Palestine Botany -- Egypt Sinai
Publisher: Beirut, Syria : Syrian Protestant college
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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acteate; corolla-tube as long as calyx, lobes lanceolate,acute — June — Swampy places along coast. Order LXIX. BORRAOI^^E^IE. (Borage Family). Trees, shrubs, or anmml or perennial, visually rough-hairy herbs, with mucilaginous juice, alternate or rarelyojpjposite, undivided leaves, symmetrical flowers, with a five- 530 BORRAGINE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) cleft or -jparted calyx (in Cordia sometimes irregularly 3-8-toothed), a regidarly ^-lohed corolla (in Echium^ JEchiochilooi,and some AnchuscB irregularly o-lohed, and in Cordia 6-8-jparted)^ stamens tcsually 5, nserted on the corolla^ alternat-ing with its loles^ and a single style — Stamens rarely 4sterile and 1 fertile. Pistil composed of one, 1-celled, two,2-celled, or four, 1-celled ovaries, each 1-seeded. Style ter-minal or basilar, arising from middle of cells. Fiuit agreen drupe, or twin, 2-celled pyrenes, or quadruple, 1-cellednutlets. Seeds with or without albumen. Inflorescenceusually in a scorpioid cyme or raceme. Fig. 351.
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(a) Flowering stem of Myosotis, showing the 5-fid calyx, the 5-lobed, gamopetalouscorolla, and the scorpioid inflorescence, and undivided leaves. (J) The corolla laid open,showing the stamens alternating with the corolla-lobes, and inserted into the corolla tube,and between them the scales which constitute the crown at the throat of the corolla, (c)The 4-lobed pistil, from the middle of the cells of which arises tha st)ie. (d) Three lobesof the calyx, with two akenes out of the four in situ, (e) One of the akenes cut lengthwise.(/) A raceme of Symphytum. (^) The corolla laid open, showing the stamens and inter-vening scales of the crown. Tribe I. CORDIEJE, Ovary single with terminal style. Fn^it a green drupe.Seeds 4, exalbuminous. 1. CORDIA. Glabrous or scabrous trees, the fruit used in making bird-lime. Tribe II. HEIilOTROPE^E. Ovary single, with terminal style and 4 sutures.Fruit (in ours) dry, separating into 2 pyrenes or 4 nutlets. Seeds sparingly albuminous —Herbs or shrubs. 2

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