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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-lobed stigma, much shorter than globular-ovate ovary; caj^-sule .008 long, .005 broad, ovate, capped by marcescent corolla —Spring — Lebanon to Aintab, and northward. Var. pauciflora, Post. Flowers solitary or 2-4 in a loose raceme — Coelesyria; Hermon; Aintab. Order LXXI. SOLAMACE^E, (Nightshade Family). Serbs or shrubs, with colorless jidee, alternate (rarelyopposite) leaves, usually regular, 6-merous, 6-6-7-androusflowers, on bractl ess pedicels; the corolla imbricated, convo-lute or valvate inbud, generally plaited; the fruit a %celled,many-seeded pod or berry — Flowers usually perfect. Calyx 566 SOLANACE^. (XIGHTSHADE FAMILY). 5-cleft or parted, persistent or with a persistent base and de-ciduous tube. Corolla sometimes slightly irregular. Anthers2-celled. Ovules anatropous or amphitropous. Style 1, stig-ma entire or bilamellate. Seeds with reticulate or pittedtesta. Embryo curved, spiral, or straight, in fleshy albumen— Mostly narcotic and poisonous plants.n Fig. 259.
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Fig. 259. (a) Flower of Nicotiana Tabacum, showing the 5-cleft calyx, tubular corolla,with 5-cleft, rotate limb, 5 stamens, with 2-celIed anthers, and bilamellate stigma, (b) Cap-sule of the same, with persistent calyx, the capsule splitting at tip into 5 valves, (c) Thesame cut horizontally, showing the two cells, with central placents and many seeds, (d)Section of seed of a Solanum, showing the curved embrjo. (e) Flowering and fruitingcyme of Solanum Dulcamara, showing the 5-cleft calyx, the 5-parted, rotate corolla, withyery short tube, and the berry-like fruit. (/) Slightly irregular flower of Hyoscyamus- (g)Capsule of the same, opening by a lid, showing the two cells, and central placenta, (h)Convolute csstivation of flower of Datura. («) The same seen from above. * Fruit a ierry. 1. SOLANUM. 0 ^ Flowers in cymes or umbels, out of axils. Fruiting calyx un- changed. 2. PIITSALIS. If Flowers solitarj. Fruiting calyx much inflated, enclosing fruit. 3. WITHANIA. ^ Flowers clustered

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