

POL\ GALA< l A 





I XXXIII. POLYGALAl l I . Milewi 





Je*, Jut,. Ann. Hum. 14. 



SI. II r 



I. 41 :. 



847 M Utah .-./.•/ 



)■■'■• . ./ aiHtkert 



Shrubs or herbaceous plants, sometimes twiners. I .llv alfa . 



posite, mostly simple, and always destitute of stipules. I 

 . often small and inconspicuous, but showy in many b] 



i i \i. 



Pedicels with ;'• bracts. & pals 6, very irregular, distinct, often gramaceous : 



of which 1 is superior and 2 anterior; 2 interior (the wings) us 



alternate with tin upper and lower ones. Petals hypogynous, usual!] 3,oi which 1 is 



anterior and larger than the rest (the keel), and - J alternate with the u] 



lateral inner sepals, and often connate «itli the keel; - 



additional ones minute and between the wings and the lower sepals. I\ 



entire, and then either naked or crested ; sometimes 3-lobed, and thi 



a crest. Stamens hypogynona, 8 usually combined in a tube, uneqi 



sometimes 4, and distind ; the tube Bput opposite the up] 



innate, mostly 1 -celled and opening at their apex, sometimes -_■-.-»- 1 li -« 1. 



l>isk either aba nt or present, regular or irregular. < (vary sup 



compressed, with 2 or 3 cells, which are anterior and : 



thr upper one occasionally suppressed ; ovules solitary, very rarerj 



twin, pendulous, anatropal : Btyle simple, carved, sometimes verj 



oblique and cucullate at the apex, which is also entire or ' 



stigma simple. Fruit usually opening through the valves ; 



ally lndehiscent, membranous, fleshy, coriaceous, or drupaco ■:-. • 



Seeds pendulous, with a caruncnla next the hilum, i 



tin- outer integument crustaceous, the inner membranous : albumi i 



rarely reduced to a thin gelatinous plate ; embryo straight, or slightl) >•-. h the 



radicle nexl the hilum. 



The structure of this Order has been explained bj \ St.] 



landou, from whose Memoir, above quoti 1. 



CTLXI. — Polygnla erioptera. 1. an the vunr 



pistil ; -4. a section of a ripe seed ; in the niiJdlc u the esnhno ; at tht 

 whii-h repi ri , a : base, Is seen a carunoula. 



1 CCLXH. — Anthers of Polygala vuL., 



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