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Title: The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution;
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kerner von Marilaun, Anton, 1831-1898 Oliver, Francis Wall, 1864- Macdonald, Mary Frances Ewart Busk, Marian Balfour, Lady
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, Blackie
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in waterfalls, clingingto rocks, loose stones, and stumps of trees which have been stripped of their bark.Almost all of them inhabit the tropics, the only exception being one species in SouthAfrica and one in North America. No fossil remains have been found. The numberof existing species hitherto described amounts to 175. 758 THE SUBDIVISIONS OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. Families: Lc Alliance XLIII.—ViridiHora). tneriacece, Cannahinacece, DorsteniacecG, Artocarpacece, Ficacecr..Conocephalacece, Moracece, Ulmacecc Annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, and trees. The laminae of the foliage-leavesveined with pinnate or radiating bundles. Flowers in glomerate, fasciculate, orspicate cymes; actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, pseudo-hermaphrodite, monoecious, anddioecious. Perianth composed of 2-8 inconspicuous greenish segments. Gynaiceumsuperior, 1-2 carpellary and unilocular. Ovule solitary, pendulous. Stamens as manyor double as many as the perianth-segments; all or those of the outer whorl are
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428 — Luing budge foimed of the aerial roots of the India rubber and ( tli (Aftei Hookei ) inserted opposite the segments of the perianth. The pollen in dusty. The fruit isa one-seeded achene or a drupe. The cotyledons of the embryo are not thickened. The Ulmacece and Cannabinacese contain watery juices; the plants of the otherfamilies produce milky juice in greater or smaller quantity. The milky juice of theIndian Ficus elastica is used in the manufacture of caoutchouc, that of the SouthAmerican Cow-tree (Galactodendron utile) as an article of diet. The milky juice ofthe Upas-tree (Antiarls toxicaria), native to Java, contains poisonous substances.In the Hop (Rumulus LupuLus) and in the Hemp (Cannabis sativa) bitter and ANGIOSPERM^. DTCOTYT.EDONES. 759

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