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Ai.i.us,,; xi.|. DAPBNALES.—Tee Daphkai Ann-. 



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The DaphnalAUianceconsistealmoel exclusively of shrubs and trees, usually, 

 green and often of large dimensions. It is defined by its flowers being monoclilamy- 

 -. or, .1 there be a corolla, by the quasipetals havii uu :,. 



and quality of the calyx. It differs from the FicoidaJ Alliance in the total al - 

 albunien, and its great almond-like embryo; nevertheless - Dap] ladsa 



dais in consequen, f the resemblai u ;,,, 



it ugr. • s in the nature of it- , mbryo, bui is distinguished by the want 

 or, railing tliat distinction, by its ovary havinga vertical style, which in I 

 ■ less obliquely with respect to the ovary. This renders il i 

 Uiofruito Daphnads is really composed ol two or more valvate carpels coherii 

 «»«sle ovule, aaluippens m Uie Order ol Buckwheats, while in B 



uti-U simple. ' 



I the further end of the chain of Daphnals we End that Laurels touch 

 uiths among IWsals. I. Lur, Is, too, indicate a tendency towards the diclini ■ 

 "^"sequence of their ■flow, ccasionally unisexual, and seem to bi 



ut.i the vicmity ol Plume Nutm 

 ^■« « also a< rery strong approach on the part of Daphnals to Rhami 

 ^cated by the tubular calyx ol the latter and their constant tendency to 

 t- the two Alliances must stand in actual , 

 sn them except the simple fruit of the one and the compound fruit 



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