The vegetable kingdom, or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants : illustrated upon the natural system / by John Lindley ; with upwards of five hundred illustrations.

  • Lindley, John, 1799-1865.
Date:
MDCCCXLVIII [1847]
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Credit: The vegetable kingdom, or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants : illustrated upon the natural system / by John Lindley ; with upwards of five hundred illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Fries.] f f Apetalous. IV. Inco.mpustjs, with the disk not thickened or atominiferous. Perianth ^ namosepalouSy concent rated. I b. stjua niaceous, tvibt icatecl. X. Rractkiflor^. 1. a. Vepreculie b. Aristolochise Cucurbitacete 2. Artocarpeae 3. Urticeae Bakmophorcre ? Lycopodincese XI. JlJLI FLORAE. 1. a. Fraxine?£ | b. JuglaiHlineae Amentaceaj 2. Salicinece 3. Myricese Conifer* Equisetum c. none or doubtful. XII. Nudiflor.e. 1 a Clilorantheae b. Piperace* 2. Saurure* Callitrichine* 3. Naiade* Ceratophylleie Chara Class II. MONOCOTYLEDONS. t complete in 2 rotes, a stamens epigynous. XIII. Frcctifloiue. 1. a. Orchide* b. I ride* Narcisse* 2. Hydrocbaride* 3. Valisneria Perianth b. stamens amphigynous. XIV. Liliiflorje. 1. a. Liliace* ; b. Melanthaceae '2. Alismace* 3. Juncace* 11 incomplete or 0. c. stamens kypogynous. XV. Sfadiciflor,*:. 1. a. Callace* b. Orontiace* 2. Potainogetone* 3. Cyperace* ttt bracteate, valvate. XVI. Glumiflorje. Graminece This series is conspicuous for its fruit, epigynous, retrogressive. This series is conspicuous for its flowers, central, amphigynous. This series is conspicuous for i ts vegetation, progressive, hypogy- nous. Class III. CRYPTOGAMS, or NEMEJE. A. IIeTERONEME*. Germinating threads a. solitary, simple. \ several, ramifying. XVII. FttiCES. j XVIII. Muscr. B. IIOMONEJUE.U. Gonidia a. present. Colour herbaceous. XIX. Alox. This series is conspicuous for its vegetation, and progressive. b. absent. Colour metallic. XX. Fungi. This series is conspicuous for its fruit, and retrogressive. 1835. Martics, C. Fr. Ph. v.— (Conspectus Regni Vegetalilis secundum characleres morphologicos prteserlim, carpicos in classes ordines et familias digesti, <fcc.) The motto prefixed to this treatise, “Ye shall know them by their fruit,” explains the principles upon which Dr. Von Martius has constructed his system. He assumes that “ because the fruit and its seed, or the parts analogous to them, constitute the crown and end of the whole nature and vitality of plants, on that very account it must be superior to the other parts in dignity.” Accordingly its variations are scrutinised with much care, and many new terms are proposed for the sake of expressing those variations with great precision. Two primary divisions of the Vegetable Kingdom are admitted, viz.—1. Primitive Vegeta(ion, consisting of all known plants except Fungals, which form of themselves the other division called 2, Secondary Vegetation. Primitive vegetation is separated into the following classes, viz.: I. Ananths, or flowerless plants; II. Loxines, or Monocotyledons; III. Tympanochetes, or Gymno- gens ; IV. Orthoines, or Dicotyledons. Each of the more extensive classes is broken npinto certain sub-classes and series, under which are stationed Cohorts (nr Alliances), in which the Natural Orders are finally marshalled. As the plan, which is very artifi- cial, has never been adopt'd, it will be sufficient to give the Cohorts of one of the sub- divisions, for which purpose a portion of the second Sub-class of Orthoines may be selected. Cohort 1. Manocarper.• stnlM/nlhr.— I'rticear, Mores, Artocorpeir, Ulinncoic, StUngincic, Ilcnsloviaceic. Cohort 2. Hriplftcarpte rolumnt/era.— Myri.ticeic. Cohorts. Haploenrptr ehromanUur. Thymelnue, KlirngneJe, Anthoboleir, Osyriilccc, llllgereto, Her- nandieie, Aqriilartneie, Crotenreic, Bantalacese, Nyasaconc. Cohort 4. Foli/ptoc'trj>fe c.hromnntiuP..—Penwnceie. Cohort 5. Ilaploearpir• nusantha.—Chenopodiaceic, I’etivoriacew, Nyctaginoie, Ac.