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Achenes ALLEGHENY AMPTON Anthers Ark.-Pennsylvania Asia ballast basal BERKS blades BLAIR bracts Britton BUCKS calyx Calyx-lobes Canadensis capsule Carex carpels CASTER CHESTER Corolla DAUPHIN DELA DELAWARE drupe dry soil dry woods ERIE Eu.-Pennsylvania FAMILY fields and waste Flowering scales FRANKLIN Fruit GHENY glabrous HUNTINGDON hypanthium I. F. f inflorescence involucre Kans LACKAWANNA LANCASTER lanceolate Leaf-blades leaflets leaves LEBANON Lindl lobes LUZERNE Mass meadows Michx moist soil moist woods MONROE MONTGOMERY Muhl N. S. to Minn N. W. Terr Newf NORTHAMPTON Nutt oblong Ovary ovate Ovules panicle Panicum pedicels Peduncles Pennsylvania Perigynia petals PHILADELPHIA PIKE pistillate Plants Pods Presque Isle pubescent Quebec racemes ray-flowers sandy soil SCHUYLKILL SEDGE seeds sepals sessile SOMERSET south to Fla Spikelets spikes Stamens stems stigmas Styles SUSQUEHANNA swamps sylvania Tenn TIOGA vania waste places wet places Willd woods and thickets yellow YORK
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Page xiv - Stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, or fewer.
Page x - Corolla present. •Petals distinct, at least at the base. Carpels solitary, or several and distinct, or united only at the base. Stamens at the base of the receptacle, ie, hypogynous.
Page ix - Stamens perigynous or epigynous, inserted on the margin of a hypanthium or a disk. Fruit a samara... (Aceraceae) 31. SAPINDALES (p. 405). Fruit not a samara. Fruit drupelike or berry-like; trees or shrubs. 32.
Page xii - Stamens inserted on the margin of a disk or hypanthium (perigynous or hypogynous). Stamens as many as the petals and opposite them. Styles and upper part of the ovaries distinct; ovules and seeds many. Saxifragaceae in Order 27.
Page 11 - Flowering scale, and palet, hyaline, thin, much more delicate In structure than the thick-membranous to coriaceous empty scales. Spikelets unisexual, the pistillate borne In the lower, the staminate In the upper part of the same spike.
Page 11 - Spikelets round or dorsally compressed; hilum punctiform. Fruiting scale and palet hyaline, thin, much more delicate in structure than the thick membranous to coriaceous empty scales. Spikelets unisexual, the pistillate borne in the lower, the staminate in the upper, part of the same spike.
Page xii - Stamens as many as the petals and alternate with them, or more, sometimes twice as many.
Page 133 - Carpels several ovuled, fruit a follicle or berry. Flowers regular. Leaves palmately nerved or palmately compound. Petals wanting. Carpels ripening into a head of red berries. i. HYDRASTIS. Carpels ripening into a head of dry follicles. 2. CALTHA. Petals present. Petals linear, flat. 3. TROLLIUS. Petals tubular, at least at the base.
Page xiii - Styles present. Styles distinct. Ovules several in each cavity of the ovary; fruit a capsule or a fleshy many-seeded berry. Fruit, if dehiscent, valvate. Families in Order 27.
Page xiv - Stamens partially adnate to the corolla. Stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla and opposite them, or twice as many or more; ovary 1-celled; placentae central or basal.