This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... is fixed to the receptacle or the peduncle; 2rf///, The summit, which is indicated by the place formerly occupied by the style or the sessile stigma; 3tlly, The axis. Sometimes the axis is not merely imaginary, but has a real existence, and is named the Columella. At other times it is fictitious, or is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... is fixed to the receptacle or the peduncle; 2rf///, The summit, which is indicated by the place formerly occupied by the style or the sessile stigma; 3tlly, The axis. Sometimes the axis is not merely imaginary, but has a real existence, and is named the Columella. At other times it is fictitious, or is represented by an imaginary line, passing through the centre of the pericarp, from its base to its summit. The Cohtmclla forms a kind of little pillar, on which are upported the different pieces of the fruit, and which rewains at the centre of the pericarp, when these have fallen off; as in the Euphorbiae, Umbell iferae, &c. The seeds being enclosed in the pericarp, it becomes necessary, to allow them to issue at the period of their maturity, that the pericarp should open in some manner. The name of dehiscence is given to the action by which a pericarp naturally opens. There are pericarps, however, which do not open, and which are termed indehiscent; as in the Synanthereae, Labiate, Gramineae, &c. Among the pericarps which open naturally at the period of maturity, there are distinguished: 1st, The ruplilepericarps, or those which burst into irregular pieces, of which the number and form are very variable; 2dly, Those which open only by holes formed at their upper part, as in the genus Antirrhinum; 3dly, Those which open at their summit by teeth, which arc at first close together, but which separate from each other, as in many CaryophylleBe; 1//'///. Those which separate into a determinate number of distinct pieces, which are named valves. These latter are the truly dehiscent pericarps. The number of valves in a pericarp may always be learned by the number of longitudinal seams or sutures, which are observed upon its outer surface. The true valves...
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First U.k. Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xxviii, 563. Half brown leather over marbled boards, lettered gilt at the spine with five raised bands. Bookplate of 'Tarradale House (University of Aberdeen) 1960' on the front pastedown. Neat name on title page, with slight rubbing at hinges and very slight splitting at head of spine, otherwise a sound, very good copy.
