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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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linear-subulate, thrice as long as tube; corollamarcescent, twice as long as calyx, upper lip oblong, notched at tip,lateral lobes of lower lip round-ovate, middle lobe obovate, much long-er; nutlets ^sii\\ fleshy pericarp — Early summer—Amanus; 1200 to1600 metres. PLANTAGINE^. (PLANTAIN FAMILY.) 667 OrdeFw LXXX. PLAMTAOIl^EiE. (Plantain Family.) Herbs, sometimes with shrubby base, and regular, 4-merous, sjnhed flowers (rarely dicecious), the calyx persis-tent, and corolla scarious, fugacious ; the 4 stamens insertedon the tube of the corolla, alternate with its lobes, the filamentsfiliform, fiaccid, indujplicate in the bud, the anthers %celled,versatile / the ovary free, 1-ircelled, 1-S-ovuled; the stylefiliform, erect, stigmatose on two lines along its length — Theovules peltate, inserted on central placentae, adnate tosepta, or in 1-oviiled cells by a basilar placenta. Fruit a capsuleor nutlet. Seeds with horny albumen. Embryo straight, in-the centre of the albumen. Fig. 312.
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d c ha (o) Spike of Plantago major, (i) Capsule, opening by a lid, which is crowned by thefugacious corolla, (c) A complete flower, with calyx, 4-lobed corolla, 4 stamens alternatingwith its lobes, and style rising between, (d) Capsule and style. PliAMTA^O, L. Plantain. Duweinat-el-Jidi. Flowers spiked or capitate, each sessile, subtended by a bract.Calyx-lobes similar or unequal, the anterior pair sometimes united. Co-rolla tubular, limb at length reflexed. Capsule a membranous pyxis, witha free, 2-4-wiuged placenta, which divides it into 2-4 false cells —Herbs or shrubby plants with alternate or opposite leaves.^ Stemless planU with leaves all radical, or caulescent with alternate leaves.t Capsule loith two, 4:-S-seeded cells. Seeds angled. Perennials. 1 P. major,f t Capsule ^-celled, cells l-seeded, or rarely 1-celled, 1-%-seed^ Inner faceof seed grooved or hoat-shaped. ^^^ 668 PLANTAGIKE^. (PLANTAIN FAMILY.) I Corolla (jialrous.§ Perennials or 2^erennants.3 P. lanceolata, 3 alb

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