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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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49,and description on p. 253) is the best-known representative of this division. Alittle group of plants, the Apostasiaceae, is also included here. To it belongsNeuwiedia, with 3 fertile stamens (i.e. the two found in Gypripedium and the onewhich is represented by the staminode). Division 2. Monandrce.—Includes the greater portion of the family, with onestamen only united with the gynseceum into the column and producing pollen inmasses (pollen-masses). The single stamen is inserted above the stigmatic surface,from which it is separated by the rostellum, and is on that side of it which isaway from the labellum, the usual alighting place for insects. The structure of themonandrous Orchid flower having been fully described and figured (pp. 253-257), ANGIOSPERM^, MONOCOTYLEDONES. 737 repetition is not needful here. The Monandrse may be divided into four tribes, theOphrydece, Neottiece, Vandece, and Epidendrem. The OphrydecB include most of the British and European Orchids, which are not
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epiphytes but terrestrial, with swollen tuberous roots, including Orchis, Ophrys,Gymnadenia, Habenaria, and the South African Bisa. The Neottiece also include some European forms, Ceplialanthera, Listera ovata(the Twayblade), &c., and a series of colourless forms of saprophytic habit, whichare destitute of foliage, including Epipogium aphyllum (fig. 257 ^^ p. 226), Neottia Vol. II. 97 738 THE SUBDIVISIONS OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. Nidus-avis (the Birds Nest Orchid), and Corallorhiza (the Coral-root). To thistribe belongs the climbing Vanilla-orchid (Vanilla planifolia) the capsules ofwhich yield the spice. To the VandecB and Epidendrece belong the numerous tropical epiphytes ofwhich many genera are widely cultivated in greenhouses, such as Loilia, Epiden-drum, Cattleya, Masdevallia, Phajus, Catasetum, (figs. 275 ^ ^ ^ *• ^> ^> ^ p. 269), Stan-hopea, Vanda, Phaloinopsis (fig. 258 \ p. 227), Odontoglossum, Dcndrohium(fig. 275^), Oncidium, Angroecum (fig. 418), and many other

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