Excerpt from English Botany, Vol. 6: Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants Odd segment of the calyx anterior, directed towards the stem. Corolla irregular, frequently more or less 2-lipped. Anthers cohering, usually dissimilar; pollen ovoid. Style glabrous, with a bilobed or entire stigma surrounded by hairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from English Botany, Vol. 6: Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants Herbs or undersbrubs (frequently having milky juice), with alternate entire or toothed leaves, without stipules, rarely with the leaves all radical. Flowers perfect, regular or irregular, usually blue, purple, or white, generally separate, more rarely in involucratc anthodcs, with the leaves of the involucre resembling the sepals of a calyx. Calyx-tube adhering to the ovary; liiub free, of 5 segments, regular or irregular, persistent or deciduous, not forming a pappus. Corolla monopctalous, inserted into the throat of the calyx ; limb 5-cloft or -toothed, regular or irregular-in the latter ease 2-lipped or 1-lippcd. Stamens 5, inserted at the base of the corolla ; filaments not adhering to the corolla, and alternate with its lobes, free or united into a tube ; anthers 2-celled, distinct or cohering by their margins or bases in a ring round the style, opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, 2- or 3-, more rarely 5-ccllcd ; style 1, generally cleft at the apex into as many stigmatifcrous portions as there arc cells in the ovary; ovules numerous or several, very rarely 1 in each cell of the ovary. Fruit a capsule, opening by clefts or pores below or between the ealyx-teeth, or by valves above the calyx-limb, or a berry or drupe and indchiscent. Seeds albuminous; embryo straight, in the midst of fleshy albumen. Sub-Order I. - Lobelieæ Odd segment of the calyx anterior, directed towards the stem. Corolla irregular, frequently more or less 2-lipped. Anthers cohering, usually dissimilar; pollen ovoid. Style glabrous, with a bilobed or entire stigma surrounded by hairs. Genus I. - Lobrlia. Linn. Calyx 5-clcft. Corolla tubular, with the tuho split above ; limb 2-lipped, with tho upper lip with 2 erect or recurved segments ; the lower ono 3-lobcd, larger and spreading. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, With Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, Vol. 6: To Which Will Be Added, Occasional Remarks Gen. Char. Calyx in 4- lobes, coloured. Cor. Ringent, with a contracted orifice: upper lip notched, concave, longest; lower in 3 nearly equal lobes. Caps. Ovate, compressed, with 2 cells, and many angular seeds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, With Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, Vol. 33: To Which Will Be Added, Occasional Remarks Gen. Char. Cor. Salver-shaped. Stamens inserted into the tube. Anthem becoming spiral. Style declining. Seed-oessel of two inflexed valves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
