BO LAN 



POLEMONI U i i 





Order CCXLIII. POLEMONlAi I 



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Herbaceous plants, uiii, opposite, or occasional!, 



'— :-'-"• ■*»» "V climbing. Calyx inferior^, 



persistent, sometimes irregular. Corolla re " ■ 



pilar, or nearly bo, 5-lobed. Stamei 

 inserted into the middle of the tube of the 

 'Ha, and alternate with it. » -,,,- , u - 

 Ovarj superior, 3 celled, with few or main 

 anatropal or amphitropal ovules ; Btyle sim- 

 ple jstigmatrifid. Capsuh 3-celled, 3-valved 

 °r manv-Beeded, with a loculicidal or 

 septicidal dehiscence ; the valves separating 

 lr '"" ''"' axis. Seeds angular or oval, or 

 winged, often enveloped in mucus, in which 

 spiral threads are entangled, ascending ; em- 

 bryo straight, in the axis of much hornyalbu- 

 "''."; radicle inferior, verj Bhort ; cotyledons 

 elliptical, foliaceous. 



Theternar} division of tl varyi nected 



with the pentandroua corolla and S ' 

 lyx, bring this Order near Bindweeds, from 

 which the habit, embryo, and corolla, distill- 

 uui-l, it. but Cobaea has the habit of a Bind- 

 without the leaves ; from Gentianworts 

 t" which it also approaches, the 3-celled ovan 

 divides*. ToHydrophylsitapproacheaverj 

 nearly, but the placentatiou is different i and 



therefore, I'hloxworts are not pla I in the 



< nrtusal Alliance, but on die borders ..fit- to 



i.«hi. h is uhually ol that hue, whatever nun be die colon, 



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... Vn m " , ;"-" , ";V" 1 -"' and which, 



■I- ;"■' '■"»'-'■'•■ ofthe testa; when dry, th 



water isln-1.1^ mucus ' ^ ° u < being able torn 



J£ ' is a lied t he mucus d.sso vos and , 



Seat of "Z ^ '>™™l at right angles with , 

 •heath o muc-us , m wluch it for a long time re, ,s e, 



'• I-; [an, refen^d to an imaginar) Order, 



J,,, .' ' ''"' l 't m'ght have been referred if it* caly' 



unnncated sepals. I- u really so I 



^ n ! 1 |Ti? r , Ve J Sth " t Phloxworts had, 



, ,s; ""' Nightshades. The; are, , . 



■I, const a>icj (unless in accidental^ abnonnn 

 inej - possess ithe contorted aestivation oi Doj 

 ™on of Nightshades and Figworts, with the infloi 

 JJUP» in the two latter Orders. / 

 •' tn ^tricarpellary structure of the ovary forbids 



. • ' ■ ' \W i ■ .mia gracilis. 1. 



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