An introduction to the science of botany : chiefly extracted from the works of Linnaeus, to which are added several new tables and notes and a life of the author / by the late James Lee.

  • Lee, James, 1715-1795.
Date:
1810
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Credit: An introduction to the science of botany : chiefly extracted from the works of Linnaeus, to which are added several new tables and notes and a life of the author / by the late James Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    THE CALYX. .5. PfiwetatWUM, seed-vessel. 6. Se.mina, the seeds themselves. 7. Receptacle*, base, on which the fructification is seated. All these parts, and their several uses, will be particularly ex- plained in the following chapters; and it is sufficient to observe here, that the four first, viz. Calyx, Corolla, Stamina, and Pistil- lum, are properly parts of the Jloxver; and the three last, Pericar- pium, Semina, and Receptacle, parts of the fruit; and that it is from the number, proportion, positions, and other circumstances attending these parts of fructification, that the classes of vegeta- bles, and the genera they contain, arc to be characterized accord- ing to the Sexual System. CHAP. II. OF THE CALYX. THE Calyx is, according to Linnaeus, the termination of the cortex, or outer bark of the plant; which, after accompanying the trunk or stem through all its branches, breaks out with the flower, and is present in the fructification in this new form. Its chief use is to enclose and protect the other partsf. It has re- ceived different appellations, according to the circumstances with which it is attended, viz. 1. Perianth i um, a flower-cup, when its station is close to the fructification. If it includes the stamina, and not the germen, * For the derivations of these terms, vide Doctor Thornton's w Grammar of Bo- tany. Editor. f It sometimes serves the office of pericardium, as in the Lamium, nettle, and frequently accompanies the fruit. In the Patagonula and egg plant it is ob- served to grow to a larger size in the fruit tliau it had in the flower. Editor,