A synoptical compend of British botany ... arranged after the Linnean system / [John Kingston Galpine].

  • Galpine, John Kingston, -1806
Date:
1834
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Credit: A synoptical compend of British botany ... arranged after the Linnean system / [John Kingston Galpine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 43 ) CLASS VIII. OCTANDRIA. ORDER III. TRIGYNIA. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. POLYGONUM. 5 FI. hexandrous: styles combined: L. linear-lanceolate, flat, clusteis lax, filiform, almost erect: stem trailing at the base. ** Trigynous. 6 Stem quite simple, single spiked: L. ovate, undulated, decurrent into the petiole. 7 Stem quite simple, single spiked: L. lanceolate, margin revolute. 8 FI. axillary: L. elliptic-lanceolate, margin rough: nerves of the stip. remote: stems procumb. herbaceous. 9 L. heart-arrowshaped • stem almost upright, smooth: angles of the seeds equal. 10 L. heart-arrowshaped: stem angular, twining: segments of the calyx obtusely keeled. ORDER IV. TETRAGYNIA. 222. PARIS. Smilacete. R. Hr. 1 Stem simple: L. four, ovate: FI. solitary. 223. ADOXA. Saxifrages. Juss. 1 L. bi-ternate, lobed. 224. ELATINE. Caryaphyllete. Juss. 1 L. in pairs, rough with minute points: FI. mostly 3-cleft.