. The natural history of plants. Botany. 170 NATUBAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. section Pmtadiplandm, the leaves are also compound-digitate. The ovary has five to seven ovarian cells surmounted by as many small stigmatiferous tubercles, and the FkraM^raiPenta,iplan,lra)riemarcli. ' audrcecium is formed of five pentadelphous stamens or of five alternipetalous filaments each bearing an anther with four introrse and primarily parallel cells (fig. 222). Thus defined, this genus con- sists of woody plants, unarmed trees or shrubs, with flowers in compound umbels, nearly al- ways erect stems, climbing in Tu
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 170 NATUBAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. section Pmtadiplandm, the leaves are also compound-digitate. The ovary has five to seven ovarian cells surmounted by as many small stigmatiferous tubercles, and the FkraM^raiPenta,iplan,lra)riemarcli. ' audrcecium is formed of five pentadelphous stamens or of five alternipetalous filaments each bearing an anther with four introrse and primarily parallel cells (fig. 222). Thus defined, this genus con- sists of woody plants, unarmed trees or shrubs, with flowers in compound umbels, nearly al- ways erect stems, climbing in Tupidanthus, from India, whilst Fig. 222. Long. sect, of flower (1). ^^^ other known spccics are from the Sandwich, Feejee, New Caledonia and neighbouring The form of inflorescence of the Umbelliferce^ attracted the attention of early botanists. Thus, Dodoens ^ united them in the fifth class of his first * pemptade.' Clusius ' places them in the same book with the Gompositce and Ferns. Cesalpin * makes of them a separate class, as do also Dalechamp ' and many other authors at the close of the sixteenth century. Linn^us^ conceived the idea of distinguishing an Order of Umbelliferce which has been retained generally by his successors, especially, in France, by B. de Jussieu,^ Adanson * and A. L. DE JussiBU.' Adanson placed the Aralieoe known to him in the same family and in a tribe of Ginsen. A. L. de Jussieu sepa- rated them under the title of a distinct order'° in consequence of an error, believing the seeds of the Umbelliferce naked and those of the AraliecB furnished with a pericarp. The fruit of these plants was then very imperfectly known. Cusson,'' then G^etnee,'^ showed ' Umiellatm T. Inst. 304.—Seiadophyta Neck. Elem. i. 162.— Umbellacea Lindl. Key (1836), n. 11.— Apiaceai Lindl. Veg. Kingd. (1846) 773, ('rd. 296. 2 Pempt. (1532). ^.Manor, et Exot. (1576). * De Plantis Libii XVI (1583). * Bist. Gen. Plantar. (1587)- » Prcelect. Ord. Hat. (ed. Gies.) 508. ''
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