Identifier: naturalhistoryof02kern (find matches)
Title: The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution;
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kerner von Marilaun, Anton, 1831-1898 Oliver, Francis Wall, 1864- Macdonald, Mary Frances Ewart Busk, Marian Balfour, Lady
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, Blackie
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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(seefig. 438^). The petals are usually small, and of a greenish-yellow colour. Thefilaments in Melianthaceae and Aurantiaceas are connate all together, or in groups.The fruits are extremely various. In Staphyleaceae and Diosmaceae they arefollicles; in Celastraceae and Rutaceae, capsules (see fig. 325 ^ p. 431); in Zygo-phyllaceae, Aceraceae, and Malpighiaceae, schizocarps; in the Tree of Heaven, of tliefamily Simarubaceae, winged achenes (samaras, see fig. 323^, p. 428); and inAmpelideae and Aurantiaceae, berries. The Disciflorae are distributed over thewhole earth. The majority belong to the tropics, and several, e.g. Bui-seracea?,Ochnaceae, and Malpighiaceae are exclusively tropical. The Diosmaceae are confinedto South Africa, the Rutaceae to the districts of the Mediterranean and the BlackSea. Comparatively few species occur in the Northern Temperate Zone, or incorresponding situations on mountains. The Mountain Maple covers about the 778 THE SUBDIVISIONS OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM.
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Fig. 438—Disciflora;. ^ 1 Euomjmns Enropceus (Family Celastrine*), flowering branch. 2 longitudinal section through a flower, s Quassia amara (Family Siniarubaceaj), flowering branch. * GynKceum and floral receptacle, s Ochna (Family Ochnacese). receptacle, I gynaeceum, and one stamen. 6 Fruit of same. 7 Longitudinal section through the flower of the Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus, ) family Simarubaceee). (Partly after Baillon.) ) ANGIOSPERM^, DICOTYLEDONES. same ground as the Beech, and, m the Central Alps, even extends beyond the upperlimit of the Beech. Fossil remains are found in the Mesozoic and Tertiary strata.The number of known species now living is about 9000. Alliance LVII.—CrateranthsB. Families: Leguminosce, Rosacece, Saxifragacece, Escalloniacece, Cephalotacecb,Francoacece, Grassulacece, Hydrangeacece, Ribesacece, Philadelphaceoe,Styracacece, Hamamelidacece, Rhamnacece. Annual and perennial herbs, shrubs, and trees. Flowers abundant; actino-morphic and zygomorphic; hermaph

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