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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rolla funnel-shaped, 5-lobed,twisted in bud. Stamems inserted near base of tube, included ; anthers 35 570 SOLANACE^. (nightshade FAMILT). Fig. 261. linear, with parallel cells, opening by in-trorse slits. Ovary 3-celled or by falsesepta 4-celled, ovules attacked to true orfalse septa ; style filiform ; stigma bilamel-late. Capsule oblong-globular, prickly,loculicidally and septicidally 4-valved —Annual herbs, with an unpleasant odor, andlarge, white flowers. 1. ». Stramoniiim, L. 0 .6tol, minutelypa2mlar, green; stem stout. Leavespetioled, ovate, .1 to .15 long, unequally,sinuate-dentate. Corolla .08 to .1 long,pentagonal, lobes 5, cuspidate ; capsules.03 to .04 long—May to September —Roadsides and waste places ; common. 2. D. metel, L. 0 .6 to 1, denselypuhescent, greyish; stem stout. Leaves .1to .25 long, ovate, cuneate or cordate at base^entire or ohsoletely repand. Corolla .15 long,pubescent outside ; lobes 10, cuspidate ;capsules .03 to .04 long— Summer—Coast ;Safita.
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Flower of D. Stramonium S. HYOSCYAMUS, L. Henbane. Benj. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-cleft near apex, growing in fruit,ribbed, enclosing capsule. Corolla funnel-shaped, sometimes laterallysplit, with oblique, 5-fid limb, and broad, imbricated lobes. Stamensinserted on tube, generally exserted ; anthers oblong, with parallelcells. Style filiform ; stigma capitate ; capsule opening by a lid nearapex ; seeds tubercled or pitted — Herbs, with a narcotic odor. 1. H. muticus, L. 2f Sekrdn. Semen-el-Fdr. .3 to .6, green, crisp-pubescent or hairy ; stems thick, often warty, simple or sparinglybranched. Leaves fleshy^ cuneate at base, ovate to rhombic, acute,angled or toothed-lobed, rarely entire, the lower petioled, blade .1 ormore long, the upper sessile ; the floral oblong-lenticular. Corollawhite^ icith violet sjMs, .02 long, tube somewhat exserted, limb ir-regularly split; fruiting calyx .04 long, .015 broad, with broad,triangular, muticous teeth, about one-sixth as long as tube— Spr

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