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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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pistillate. Shrubs or small trees, with peltate-palmate, 7-11-lobed leaves,t t FloKcrs dicecions. 6. MEECUEIALIS. 0 Staminate flowers in clusters along axillary peduncles; pistillate 1-2 together^ subsessile, axillar)-. Glabrous herbs. 1. EUPHORBIA, L. Euphorbia. Spurge. Huleib-el-Bum. Flowers monoecious, included in a cup-shaped, 4-8-lobed involucre,resembling a calyx or corolla, usually bearing glands at the sinuses.Staminate Jloicers numerous, lining the base of the involucre, each fromthe axil of a little, ciliate-fringed bract, -which takes the place of a calyx,and consisting of a single stamen, -with a jointed filament. PistillateJtoicer solitary in the middle of the involucre, often protruded on a longpedicel, with a 3-6 lobed, often obsolete, calyx. Ovary 3-celled, thecarpels splitting into 2 valves. Styles 3, each bifid — Shrubs or herbs,with acrid, milky juice, the uppermost leaves often in whorls or pairs.Peduncels lateral or terminal, often umbellate-clustered. Fig. 329.
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la) Branch of a typical Euphorbia (corollata). (&) An niYolucre containing severalst9minate flowers, and one pistillate, (c) A staminate flower with its ciliate bract, andjointed filament, (d) Transverse section of a fruit, showing its 3 carpels, (e) Longitudinalsection of a carpel showing its structure and relation to tlie axis. (/) The embryo withsuperior radicle. * All the leaxes opposite, stiinded, oUique at hase. Glands appendagcd. Prostrate annuals. 1 E. Peplis, 3 granulata, 3 Chamgesyce, 4 -ffigyptiaca. * * Lower leaves scattered, the rest opjjosite, all stipuled. Ohmds not apptendaged, palmatijid. Annuals, icith solitary invohicres. EUPHORBIACEiE. (SPURGE FAMILY.) 717 5 E. Postii. * * * Leaves opposite, or scattered, not stiimled, the Jforal opposite orwhorled. Glands not a2>pendaged, entire, or truncate-^-horned. t All the leaves except the lowest opi^osite. Glands pectinately 2-^-deJt.Styles undivided. Inflorescence forlced. Annuals. 6 E. lanata. t t Leaves not ojjj^o

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  • bookid:floraofsyriapalest00post
  • bookyear:1896
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Post__George_Edward__1838_1909
  • booksubject:Botany____Syria
  • booksubject:Botany____Palestine
  • booksubject:Botany____Egypt_Sinai
  • bookpublisher:Beirut__Syria___Syrian_Protestant_college
  • bookcontributor:Princeton_Theological_Seminary_Library
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:724
  • bookcollection:Princeton
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