cappapidace.t:. 



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II. CAPER SERIES. 



The characters of the Capers 1 (Fr., Cdpriers ; figs. 174-179), vary 

 from one section to the other. We may first study Capparis spinosa, 2 

 indigenous in France, the flower-buds of which constitute the Capers 



Capparis spinosa. 



Fig. 174. 

 Flowering branch (|). 



of commerce. Its flowers are hermaphrodite and symmetrical, 

 but somewhat irregular. On the convex receptacle are inserted 

 a tetramerous calyx and corolla, a polyandrous androceum, and a 



1 Capparis T., Inst., 261, 1. 1 39.— L., Gen., t. 41.— Endl., Gen., n. 5000.— B. H., Gen., 



n. 643.— Adans., Fam. des PI, ii. 407.— J., 10S, 969, n. 17. 



Gen., 243.— Lamk., Bid., i. 604; Suppl., ii. 2 L., Spec, 720.— DC, Prodr., n. 4. — Boiss., 



84; III., t. 446.— DC, Prodr., i. 245.— Spach, Fl. Or., i. 420.— Sibth., Fl. Grcec, t. 486.— 



Suit, a Btiffon, vi. 297. — Payee, Organog., 203, Ores. &. Godb., Fl. de Fr., i. 159. 



