Illustrations of South American Plants, Volume 2

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H. Bailliere, 1857 - Botany
 

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Page 7 - Hyoscyamus, and adopted it as the type of a new genus, under the name of Belenia, but this suggestion has in like manner been disregarded.
Page 118 - ... broad, are quite smooth and fleshy : several flowers spring out of each fascicle ; the peduncles are 2-2£ lines long, the calyx 1 line, the tube of the corolla 3 lines, the segments of the border 2 lines ; the filaments are inserted about the middle of the tube, and are hirsute towards the base, smooth above, reaching the extremities of the bordersegments*. *** Staminibus imo fascicula pilorum barbatis. Sp. 43 ad 47. 43.
Page 42 - ScBoPHULABiACE.fi will consist of those genera possessing a tubular corolla more or less curved and irregular, with a 4- or 5-partite border, the lobes of which are generally unequal and bilabiate, and decidedly imbricate, never valvate, in aestivation ; stamens 2 or 4, didynamous, rarely 5, or with a rudimentary fifth ; anthers always introrse ; an ovarium most generally bilocular, a simple style with a stigma more or less bilabiate or 2-lobed : fruit almost always capsular, in a very few cases...
Page 65 - ... discovered plant-bed he has obtained more or less species of which we before had no knowledge, and it is even true that between some of his collections there are no connecting links. It is also true that much of the material he has collected has not yet received the study it needs. From these facts it will be seen that much yet remains to be done before the great interval of time...
Page 133 - If line broad, the petiole being almost obsolete : the peduncle is erect, 2 lines long, the very pubescent calyx 1^ line long ; the tube of the corolla is 1| line long, thick, and contracted at base, where it is surrounded by a densely tomentose ring ; the segments of the border are 2 lines long, oblong, and extremely pubescent f.
Page 42 - ... induplicato-valvate in aestivation : epipetalous stamens, alternate with, and equal to the number of the lobes, sometimes unequal in length and size, and the fifth very rarely sterile; anthers introrse, bursting by longitudinal slits or apical pores ; an ovarium most generally 2-celled, rarely 3- to 5-locular, with a simple style and a 2-lobed or clavate stigma, often hollow ; a fruit either capsular or baccate, 2-locular, rarely more-celled from the increment of the placentae, albuminous seeds...
Page 43 - Atropacea, as proposed in this work (huj. op. \. 164-178), like every first attempt of the kind, is sure to present many faults that will admit of correction, but it appears deserving of the attention of botanists as a general plan : it certainly effects the great desideratum of removing the obstacles that have always stood in the way of a satisfactory...
Page 42 - Among these, the Solanacea will embrace those genera with a monopetalous corolla, having a 5-, rarely 4-partite border, the lobes of which (even under the unusual circumstance of the tube being oblique) are nearly regular and equal, and their margins always valvate or induplicato-valvate in aestivation : epipetalous stamens, alternate with, and equal to the number of the lobes, sometimes unequal in length and size, and the fifth very rarely sterile; anthers introrse, bursting by longitudinal slits...
Page 128 - ... tubo calyce 3-plo longiore, infra medium coarctato, cylindrico, imo incrassato annulo barbato cincto, fauce ampliato, limbi laciniis 5-6, oblongis, tubo sub-brevioribus, margine ciliatis, staminibus 5-6, in coarctationem insertis, filamentis imo geniculatis, glandula elongata margine dense barbata donatis, superne laevibus, subaequalibus, exsertis ; stylo staminibus excedente. — Prov. "Buenos Ayres" Argentinorum. — vs in Herb. Hooker. (Bahia Blanca) Darwin, no. 509. (Pampas, ad Monte de Loro)...
Page 58 - ... inch broad, or 7 lines across at the base of the incisures. I observe a note upon my drawings, stating that in this species, the two lower stamens, between which the sterile one is situated, form the longest pair, while in S. purpurea the same stamens form the shorter pair, and I have found this...

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