Identifier: floraofsyriapalest00post (find matches)
Title: Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Post, George Edward, 1838-1909
Subjects: Botany -- Syria Botany -- Palestine Botany -- Egypt Sinai
Publisher: Beirut, Syria : Syrian Protestant college
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h separate carpels, generally on the disk, sometimes im-planted in it. Order XXIII. LINi:^. (Flax Family.) Herbs, sometimes with shrubby base, regular, symmet-rical hypogynous flov^ers, 4:-^-merous throughout, iinbricatedcalyx, and hypogynous convolute petals, the A-^ stamens con-nate at base, and the capsule with twice as many incompletecells and seeds as there are styles — Styles 4-5. Ovulesanatropous. Capsule loculicidal. Partition projecting fromvalve. Albumen scanty. 1. RADIOL.A, L. Radiola. Flowers tetramerous throughout. Capsule 4-celled — A trivialannual herb, with aspect of Alsine, with filiform forked branches, andminute, corymbose, white flowers. R. linoides, Gmel. 0 .02 to .1, glabrous. Leaves ovate, .002long — September — Plateau between Jebel Sunnin and Jebel Keniseh. 2. L.I)^U)n(, L. Flax. Kittdn. Zir. Fdrq. Flowers pentamerous. Capsule 5-celled, cells divided by parti-tions from the valve almost to the axis — Herbs or shrubs. 182 line^. (flax family.)Fig. 77.
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(a) Bud and flower of L. iisitatissiinum. (b) Longitudinal section of flower showini:the calyx, the disk, into which the petals and stamens are inserted, tlie ovaiy m ith centralplacenta, and the 5 styles, (c) The capsule divided transversely, showing the 5 cells,each divided by a septum extending from the valve nearly to the axis (by an inaccuracy ofthe artist represented as actually reaching the axis). * Petals yelloio.\ Petals free. I L. Galliciim, 2 corymbulosum, 3 strictum. t t Petals adhering ly irpiKT^art of claws.\ Annuals. 4 L. nodiflorum. \ \ Perennial. 5 L. Balansse, C flavum. * * Petals Uue or pinl\ free or somewhat united ly clmcs. t Stigmas fHiform-cliib-shaped. X Fruiting pedicels short. Sepals glandular. Claws of petals somewhatunited. Annuals. 7 L. hirsutum, 8 pubescens.X X Fruiting pedicels rather long. Sepals destitute of glands.§ Annuals,9 L. usitatissimum, 10 humile. § § Annuals sometimes lecoming perennial. II L. angustifolium. t t Stigmas capitate, or ohlong-

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