A Handbook of Systematic Botany (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...(1 median of the outer whorl, and 2 lateral of the inner whorl); Apostasia has only 2 perfect (inner lateral) and one ban-en (the median of the outer whorl), which how 1 According to Pfitzer, the column is the prolongation of tbe floral axis beyond tbe insertion of tbe perianth, and is not formed by the coalescence of sporophylls (filament and style). ever may be entirely wanting. The 3 jxislerior stamens are entirely suppressed. The pollen is powdery. The ovary is 3-locular with axile placenta. 7 species (Tropical East India, Australia). 2. Cyi'ripedile.s.1 The flower is strongly zygomorphic with a large boat-shaped labellum. There are two perfect stamens belonging to the inner whorl, and the median anterior (later on the posterior) stamen of the outer whorl is transformed into a large, barren, shield-shaped body (Fig. 319). Selenipedilum has a 3-locular ovary, but Cypripedilum (Ladies'-slipper) has a unilocular ovary with 3 parietal placentae--the typical structure for the Orchids. Fig. 319.--CypripdUm calccolus: 1 front view of the Mower; 2 lateral view, after the removal of all the perianth-loaves with the exception of the labellum, which has been divided longitudinally; 3 the atylar-column; on ovary;- exterior, p interior perianth; ' the labellum; a the I wo fertile stamens; a' the staminode; the stigma; i entrance for the insects; ex exit. The pollen-grains are separate (not in tetrads) and all the 3 lobes of the stigma are constructed to receive them. This group is therefore, next to the Apostasiere, the least modified among the Orchids; iu all the following groups, one of the lobes of the stigma is differently developed from the others, and there is only one stamen.--Terrestial Orchids--The pollination of C. calceolu is...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...(1 median of the outer whorl, and 2 lateral of the inner whorl); Apostasia has only 2 perfect (inner lateral) and one ban-en (the median of the outer whorl), which how 1 According to Pfitzer, the column is the prolongation of tbe floral axis beyond tbe insertion of tbe perianth, and is not formed by the coalescence of sporophylls (filament and style). ever may be entirely wanting. The 3 jxislerior stamens are entirely suppressed. The pollen is powdery. The ovary is 3-locular with axile placenta. 7 species (Tropical East India, Australia). 2. Cyi'ripedile.s.1 The flower is strongly zygomorphic with a large boat-shaped labellum. There are two perfect stamens belonging to the inner whorl, and the median anterior (later on the posterior) stamen of the outer whorl is transformed into a large, barren, shield-shaped body (Fig. 319). Selenipedilum has a 3-locular ovary, but Cypripedilum (Ladies'-slipper) has a unilocular ovary with 3 parietal placentae--the typical structure for the Orchids. Fig. 319.--CypripdUm calccolus: 1 front view of the Mower; 2 lateral view, after the removal of all the perianth-loaves with the exception of the labellum, which has been divided longitudinally; 3 the atylar-column; on ovary;- exterior, p interior perianth; ' the labellum; a the I wo fertile stamens; a' the staminode; the stigma; i entrance for the insects; ex exit. The pollen-grains are separate (not in tetrads) and all the 3 lobes of the stigma are constructed to receive them. This group is therefore, next to the Apostasiere, the least modified among the Orchids; iu all the following groups, one of the lobes of the stigma is differently developed from the others, and there is only one stamen.--Terrestial Orchids--The pollination of C. calceolu is...

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April 2013

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246 x 189 x 12mm (L x W x T)

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402

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978-1-153-38146-8

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9781153381468

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