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. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...run out at the top into short, sharp points; the female of two free carpels, each Fig. 84. Zostera. A. Diagram of branching in floral shoot. 1--6, successive shoots, every other one being shaded; ft1, 62...foreleaves on these shoots; sp, spathes (not indicated in the upper shoots). B. Spathe of Z. nana ...
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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. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...run out at the top into short, sharp points; the female of two free carpels, each Fig. 84. Zostera. A. Diagram of branching in floral shoot. 1--6, successive shoots, every other one being shaded; ft1, 62...foreleaves on these shoots; sp, spathes (not indicated in the upper shoots). B. Spathe of Z. nana with flattened spadix taken out; v, the retinaculum; x 2. C and D. Half-anther and pistil of same, more enlarged. E. Fruit of Z. marina, the thin pericarp turned back to shew the seed, x 2J. F. Diagram of a main axis, 1, with its fore-leaf (ft1) and the axillary shoot 2, with its fore-leaf (62); sp, spathe borne on 2, surrounding the spadix; s, intravaginal scales; v, bracteole. G. Diagram of part of spadix with two flowers; v, bracteole. A, F, G, after Eichler; B, C, D, from English Botany; E, after Le Maout and Decaisne. with a short style and two long, narrow stigmas, and containing one pendulous, almost straight ovule. In the monoecious Zannichellia the long-stalked male flowers consist merely of one or two stamens; the female of single free shortly stalked carpels, collected in groups of four or fewer, and surrounded by a cup-like entire spathe (fig. 83, C). The ovary is slightly bent and passes at the top into a short style, ending in a shield-like stigma. The solitary ovule is pendulous and straight (fig. 83, D). In the allied genus Althenia the male flowers have a short, three-toothed, cup-like perianth, surrounding a single anther or three united longitudinally. Reference has been already made to the mode of pollination in several genera which, except in Potamogeton and Ruppia.takes place beneath the surface, the whole plant being submerged. The characteristic tubular pollen, of equal specific gravity with the water and the...
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