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Colebrooke – Cal

Colebrooke

Colebrooke – Cal — from Encyclopedia of Plants (1910)

A celebrated English writer upon Indian plants. tanist.

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Commelin

A Dutch garden botanist.

Corréa de Serra. A Portuguese botanist

Curtis

An English writer upon plants.

Cusson

A Swiss writer upon Umbellíferæ, whose wife burnt his herbarium.

Cyrilli

An Italian botanist.

D. C., Dec. Decandolle. A celebrated French systematic botanist. Del.

Bellardi. An Italian botanist.

Bergius. A Swedish writer upon Cape Desf. plants.

Bern., Bernh. Bernhardi. A German botanist.

Bert., Bertol. Bertolini. A writer upon the Flora of

Chenopodeæ

Sp. 1. 113 campéstris W. short-leaved or 6 S Ap C. B. S. 1780. C co Sm. spicil. 1. t. 1 22. SALICOR'NIA. W. GLASSWORT.

Chenopodeæ

Sp. 5-18. 114 arábica W.

Arabian or 1 jn.jl Ap Arabia 1758. C s.1 Mor. 2. t. 33. f.7 115 fruticosa W. shrubby or 1 au.s Ap Britain sea sh. S s

Caps

globose, ovate. 96. Trichonema. Spatha 2-valved. Flower with a very short tube and an equal regular limb Filaments pubescent. Stigmas 3, 2-parted. 97. Geissorhiza. Spatha 2-valved. Flower tubular, with a 6-parted spreading regular limb. Style inclined.

Caps

oval, 3-cornered. 98. Hesperantha. Spatha 2-valved. Flower tubular, with a 6-parted regular limb. Stigmas 3, divided as far down as the tube. Caps. oblong 3-cornered.

CLASS III.

TRIANDRIA. 99. Sparaxis. Spatha 2-valved, scarious, membranous, torn at the end. Flower tubular. Stigmas S, recurved.

Caps

3-celled, many seeded. 115. Iris. Flower 6-parted: every other division reflexed. Stigmas shaped like petals. 116. Morea. Flower 6-petaled; after flowering involute above, spirally twisted beneath, finally falling off.

Caps

many-seeded. 117. Marica. Flower 6-parted, or of 6 petals: the 3 outer segments largest, the inner connivent and very much smaller. Stigma like a petal, 3-fid: its segments undivided.

Cal

short. Cor. tubular. Stamens included

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