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II. ' I ithout true -'.ij.nl. 



■pines in their place. I talked, undh ! 



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/ t.irv or rao mi 



' either nearly distinct, imbri- 

 cated, or valvate, i qual, or 

 unequal, or cohering in a 

 tube, the limb of which is 

 variable in form. Petals i. 

 or even •'!. imbricated, or ", 

 cruciate, usually unguiculate 

 and unequal Stamens almost 



. nous, vi i'; a Idi i 

 tradj nami fn quently 



arranged in some high mul- 

 tiple <>t a quaternary numbi r, 

 definite or 00, placi '1 upon a 

 large hemispherical disk, or 

 at the apex of a stalk-like 

 tonis : anthers turned in- 

 wards, opening longitudinally. 



,n ath dei ' ■!"!'• d, - 

 times asa fleshy, hemisphi ri- 



cal, roundish, i like body, sometinn - as a nectarifi rous glandular 



plate of various forms, sterile oh one side and anther-bearing on the other. 



Ovary stalked, or s -celled, with 2 or mor< parietal pi 



<>\ ules amphitropal or campylotropal ; Bt) le 0, or filiform : ' lx 



rail) round. Fruit either podshaped and dehiscent, or baccate, I -celled, 



seeded, most frequentlj with pol) spermous placenta 



bunion, but with the lining of the testa tumid, attached b the margin of th< » 



curved ; cotyledons foliaceous, flattish ; radicle taper, short or long, ( 

 iuguished from Crucifi rs by their stamens I ■ indefinii 



ynamous, or scared} ever, and l>_\ their reniform seeds. ' 

 nworts in their stipitate ovary, and Bi shy indehisa at fruit witii 



""•I- placenta; ; and t" Bixads in the structure of their fi 



indefinite stamens; from these last they are known by tl 



numinous seeds, and peculiar habit ; and from th<' formerbj a nuiul 



ractere. Brown remai . that some s] 



spinosa u an i sample, have as man) as 8 plac* nt e. A 



Tandon state that Capparids are referable to a tetrandrout 



■ible. But the explanation the) give, or the proofs th< 



eould be desired. - 20. 321). 



Capparids are diii By found in the tropics and in the 



where they abound in almost ever) direction. 01 th 



Cleome violacea, is found in Portugal : another, I 



the north as Canada ; and one or i«.. oth< - iet «it!i ii 



the United States. Of the fleshy-fruited kin.ls. the conim 



a native of the most southern parts oi Euj 



tin- north. Africa abounds in them. 



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