The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee

Part 100

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ANGIOSPERMOUS EXOGENS. | Genera. | Species. | |Native.|Introd.|Native.|Introd.| DIV. 1. POLYPETALOUS. |-------+-------+-------+-------| | | | | | 1. Ranunculacae | 19 | 5 | 62 | 14 | 2. Magnoliaceae | 2 | -- | 6 | -- | 3. Anonaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 4. Menispermaceae | 3 | -- | 3 | -- | 5. Berberidaceae | 5 | -- | 5 | 1 | 6. Nymphaeaceae | 5 | -- | 8 | -- | 7. Sarraceniaceae | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | 8. Papaveraceae | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9. Fumariaceae | 3 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 10. Cruciferae | 15 | 8 | 46 | 25 | 11. Capparidaceae | 3 | -- | 4 | 1 | 12. Resedaceae | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | 13. Cistaceae | 3 | -- | 9 | -- | 14. Violaceae | 3 | -- | 19 | 1 | 15. Caryophyllaceae | 6 | 6 | 31 | 22 | 16. Portulacaceae | 3 | -- | 7 | 1 | 17. Elatinaceae | 1 | -- | 3 | -- | 18. Hypericaceae | 3 | -- | 20 | 1 | 19. Ternstroemiaceae | 2 | -- | 3 | -- | 20. Malvaceae | 7 | 4 | 15 | 10 | 21. Tiliaceae | 1 | -- | 3 | -- | 22. Linaceae | 1 | -- | 5 | 1 | 23. Geraniaceae | 4 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 24. Rutaceae | 2 | -- | 3 | -- | 25. Ilicineae | 2 | -- | 10 | -- | 26. Celastraceae | 3 | -- | 4 | -- | 27. Rhamnaceae | 3 | -- | 6 | 1 | 28. Vitaceae | 3 | -- | 11 | -- | 29. Sapindaceae | 5 | -- | 11 | -- | 30. Anacardiaceae | 1 | -- | 7 | -- | 31. Polygalaceae | 1 | -- | 15 | -- | 32. Leguminosae | 41 | 5 | 137 | 19 | 33. Rosaceae | 17 | 1 | 87 | 8 | 34. Calycanthaceae | 1 | -- | 3 | -- | 35. Saxifragaceae | 14 | -- | 43 | 1 | 36. Crassulaceae | 3 | -- | 8 | 3 | 37. Droseraceae | 1 | -- | 4 | -- | 38. Hamamelideae | 3 | -- | 3 | -- | 39. Halorageae | 4 | -- | 13 | -- | 40. Melastomaceae | 1 | -- | 4 | -- | 41. Lythraceae | 6 | -- | 8 | 1 | 42. Onagraceae | 7 | -- | 43 | 1 | 43. Loasaceae | 1 | -- | 3 | -- | 44. Passifloraceae | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | 45. Cucurbitaceae | 5 | -- | 5 | -- | 46. Cactaceae | 2 | -- | 6 | -- | 47. Ficoideae | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48. Umbelliferae | 26 | 10 | 49 | 13 | 49. Araliaceae | 1 | -- | 6 | -- | 50. Cornaceae | 2 | -- | 11 | -- | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | 251 | 46 | 777 | 141 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| ANGIOSPERMOUS EXOGENS. | Genera. | Species. | |Native.|Introd.|Native.|Introd.| DIV. 2. GAMOPETALOUS. |-------+-------+-------+-------| | | | | | 51. Caprifoliaceae | 8 | -- | 31 | -- | 52. Rubiaceae | 7 | 1 | 25 | 5 | 53. Valerianaceae | 2 | -- | 7 | 1 | 54. Dipsaceae | -- | 2 | -- | 3 | 55. Compositae | 78 | 20 | 356 | 51 | 56. Lobeliaceae | 1 | -- | 13 | -- | 57. Campanulaceae | 2 | -- | 6 | 2 | 58. Ericareae | 26 | -- | 69 | -- | 59. Diapensiaceae | 3 | -- | 3 | -- | 60. Plumbaginaceae | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | 61. Primulaceae | 10 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 62. Sapotaceae | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | 63. Ebenaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 64. Styraceae | 3 | -- | 5 | -- | 65. Olcaceae | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 66. Apocynaceae | 3 | -- | 4 | -- | 67. Asclepiadaceae | 5 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 68. Loganiaceae | 4 | -- | 4 | -- | 69. Gentianaceae | 9 | 1 | 31 | 3 | 70. Polemoniaceae | 3 | -- | 14 | -- | 71. Hydrophyllaceae | 5 | -- | 13 | -- | 72. Borraginaceae | 8 | 3 | 22 | 11 | 73. Convolvulaceae | 6 | -- | 20 | 7 | 74. Solanaceae | 3 | 5 | 14 | 8 | 75. Scrophulariaceae | 24 | 3 | 65 | 15 | 76. Orobanchaceae | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 77. Lentibulariaceae | 2 | -- | 13 | -- | 78. Bignoniaceae | 3 | -- | 3 | -- | 79. Pedaliaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 80. Acanthaceae | 3 | -- | 4 | -- | 81. Verbenaceae | 4 | -- | 11 | 1 | 82. Labiatae | 20 | 14 | 65 | 33 | 83. Plantaginaceae | 2 | -- | 11 | 1 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | 254 | 53 | 874 | 148 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| ANGIOSPERMOUS EXOGENS. | Genera. | Species. | |Native.|Introd.|Native.|Introd.| DIV. 3. APETALOUS. |-------+-------+-------+-------| | | | | | 84. Nyctaginaceae | 2 | -- | 41 | -- | 85. Illecebraceae | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 86. Amarantaceae | 4 | -- | 9 | 7 | 87. Chenopodiaceae | 8 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 88. Phytolaccaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 89. Polygonaceae | 6 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 90. Podostemaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 91. Aristolochiaceae | 2 | -- | 6 | 1 | 92. Piperaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 93. Lauraceae | 4 | -- | 5 | -- | 94. Thymelaeaceae | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 95. Eaeagnaceae | 2 | -- | 3 | -- | 96. Loranthaceae | 2 | -- | 2 | -- | 97. Santalaceae | 2 | -- | 4 | -- | 98. Euphorbiaceae | 10 | 1 | 34 | 8 | 99. Urticaceae | 11 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 100. Platanaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 101. Juglandaceae | 2 | -- | 9 | -- | 102. Myricaceae | 1 | -- | 3 | -- | 103. Cupuliferae | 8 | -- | 37 | -- | 104. Salicaceae | 2 | -- | 25 | 5 | 105. Empetraceae | 2 | -- | 2 | -- | 106. Ceratophyllaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | 76 | 7 | 257 | 51 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| GYMNOSPERMOUS EXOGENS. | | | | | | | | | | 107. Coniferae | 10 | -- | 22 | -- | | | | | | ENDOGENS. | | | | | | | | | | 108. Hydrocharidaceae | 3 | -- | 3 | -- | 109. Burmanniaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 110. Orchidaceae | 17 | -- | 58 | -- | 111. Bromeliaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 112. Haemodoraceae | 3 | -- | 4 | -- | 113. Iridaceae | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 114. Amaryllidaceae | 4 | -- | 4 | -- | 115. Dioscoreaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 116. Liliaceae | 29 | 4 | 74 | 8 | 117. Pontederiaceae | 2 | -- | 4 | -- | 118. Xyridaceae | 1 | -- | 4 | -- | 119. Mayaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 120. Commelinaceae | 2 | -- | 6 | -- | 121. Juncaceae | 2 | -- | 32 | -- | 122. Typhaceae | 2 | -- | 5 | -- | 123. Araceae | 6 | -- | 8 | -- | 124. Lemnaceae | 3 | -- | 9 | -- | 125. Alismaceae | 3 | -- | 11 | -- | 126. Naiadaceae | 7 | -- | 39 | -- | 127. Eriocauleae | 3 | -- | 5 | -- | 128. Cyperaceae | 16 | -- | 237 | 8 | 129. Gramineae | 60 | 17 | 204 | 46 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | 170 | 22 | 721 | 64 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | Genera. | Species. | |Native.|Introd.|Native.|Introd.| PTERIDOPHYTES. |-------+-------+-------+-------| | | | | | 130. Equisetaceae | 1 | -- | 11 | -- | 131. Filices | 21 | -- | 62 | -- | 132. Ophioglossaceae | 2 | -- | 7 | -- | 133. Lycopodiaceae | 1 | -- | 9 | -- | 134. Selaginellaceae | 2 | -- | 10 | -- | 135. Marsiliaceae | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | 136. Salviniaceae | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | 29 | | 102 | | BRYOPHYTES. |-------+-------+-------+-------| DIV. HEPATICAE. | | | | | | | | | | 137. Jungermanniaceae | 32 | 1 | 115 | 1 | 138. Anthocerotaceae | 2 | -- | 4 | -- | 139. Marchantiaceae | 8 | -- | 9 | -- | 140. Ricciaceae | 2 | -- | 12 | -- | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | 44 | 1 | 140 | 1 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| Exogens. | | | | | Polypetalous | 251 | 46 | 777 | 141 | Gamopetalous | 254 | 53 | 874 | 148 | Apetalous | 76 | 7 | 257 | 51 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | 581 | 106 | 1908 | 340 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | | | | | Gymnospermous | 10 | -- | 22 | -- | | | | | | Endogens | 170 | 22 | 721 | 64 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| Total Phaenogams | 761 | 128 | 2651 | 404 | | | | | | Cryptogams | 73 | 1 | 242 | 1 | |-------+-------+-------+-------| | 834 | 129 | 2893 | 405 | |-------+-------+-------+-------|

Total of Genera 963 Total of Species 3298

GLOSSARY.

_Abnormal._ Differing from the normal or usual structure.

_Abortion._ Imperfect development or non-development of an organ.

_Abortive._ Defective or barren.

_Acaulescent._ Stemless or apparently so.

_Accumbent_ (cotyledon). Having the edges against the radicle.

_Acerb._ Sour and astringent.

_Achene._ A small, dry and hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent fruit.

_Achlamydeous._ Without calyx or corolla.

_Acicular._ Slender needle-shaped.

_Acrogenous._ Growing from the apex by a terminal bud or by the apical cell only.

_Aculeate._ Prickly, beset with prickles.

_Aculeolate._ Beset with diminutive prickles.

_Acuminate._ Tapering at the end.

_Acute._ Terminating with a sharp or well-defined angle.

_AEstivation._ The arrangement of the parts of the perianth in the bud.

_Adnate._ United, as the inferior ovary with the calyx-tube. _Adnate anther_, one attached for its whole length to the inner or outer face of the filament.

_Adventive._ Recently or imperfectly naturalized.

_Alate._ Winged.

_Albumen._ Any deposit of nutritive material accompanying the embryo.

_Albuminous._ Having albumen.

_Alliaceous._ Having the smell or taste of garlic.

_Alternate._ Not opposite to each other, as sepals and petals, or as leaves upon a stem.

_Alveolate._ Honeycombed, having angular depressions separated by thin partitions.

_Ament._ A catkin, or peculiar scaly unisexual spike.

_Amphitropous_ (ovule or seed). Half-inverted and straight, with the hilum lateral.

_Amplexicaul._ Clasping the stem.

_Anastomosing._ Connecting by cross-veins and forming a network.

_Anatropous_ (ovule). Inverted and straight, with the micropyle next the hilum and the radicle consequently inferior.

_Androgynous_ (inflorescence). Composed of both staminate and pistillate flowers.

_-androus_. In composition, having stamens.

_Angiospermous._ Having the seeds borne within a pericarp.

_Annual._ Of only one year's duration. _Winter annual_, a plant from autumn-sown seed which blooms and fruits in the following spring.

_Annular._ In the form of a ring.

_Anterior._ On the front side of a flower and next the bract, remote from the axis of inflorescence, equivalent to inferior and (less properly) exterior.

_Anther._ The polliniferous part of a stamen.

_Antheridium._ In Cryptogams, the organ corresponding to an anther.

_Antheriferous._ Anther-bearing.

_Antherizoid._ One of the minute organs developed in an antheridium, corresponding to pollen-grains.

_Anthesis._ The time of expansion of a flower.

_Apetalous._ Having no petals.

_Apical._ Situated at the apex or tip.

_Apiculate._ Ending in a short pointed tip.

_Appressed._ Lying close and flat against.

_Aquatic._ Growing in water.

_Arachnoid._ Cobwebby, of slender entangled hairs.

_Archegonium._ The organ corresponding to a pistil in the higher Cryptogams.

_Arcuate._ Moderately curved.

_Areolate._ Marked out into small spaces, reticulate.

_Aril._ An appendage growing at or about the hilum of a seed.

_Arillate._ Having an aril.

_Articulate._ Jointed; having a node or joint.

_Ascending._ Rising somewhat obliquely, or curving upward. _Ascending ovule_, one that is attached above the base of the ovary and is directed upward.

_Assurgent._ Ascending.

_Attenuate._ Slenderly tapering, becoming very narrow.

_Auricle._ An ear-shaped appendage.

_Auriculate._ Furnished with auricles.

_Awl-shaped._ Narrowed upward from the base to a slender or rigid point.

_Awn._ A bristle-shaped appendage.

_Axil._ The angle formed by a leaf or branch with the stem.

_Axile._ Situated in the axis.

_Axillary._ Situated in an axil.

_Axis._ The central line of any organ or support of a group of organs; a stem, etc.

_Baccate._ Berry like; pulpy throughout.

_Barbed._ Furnished with rigid points or short bristles, usually reflexed like the barb of a fish-hook.

_Barbellate._ Finely barbed.

_Barbulate._ Finely bearded.

_Basal, Basilar._ At or pertaining to the base.

_Basifixed._ Attached by the base.

_Beaked._ Ending in a beak or prolonged tip.

_Bearded._ Bearing a long awn, or furnished with long or stiff hairs.

_Berry._ A fruit the whole pericarp of which is fleshy or pulpy.

_Bi-_ or _Bis-_. A Latin prefix signifying two, twice, or doubly.

_Bidentate._ Having two teeth.

_Biennial._ Of two years' duration.

_Bifid._ Two-cleft.

_Bilabiate._ Two-lipped.

_Bilocellate._ Having two secondary cells.

_Bilocular._ Two-celled.

_Bisexual._ Having both stamens and pistils.

_Bladdery._ Thin and inflated.

_Blade._ The limb or expanded portion of a leaf, etc.

_Bract._ A more or less modified leaf subtending a flower or belonging to an inflorescence, or sometimes cauline.

_Bracteate._ Having bracts.

_Bracteolate._ Having bractlets.

_Bracteose._ With numerous or conspicuous bracts.

_Bractlet._ A secondary bract, as one upon the pedicel of a flower.

_Bristle._ A stiff hair or any similar outgrowth.

_Bud._ The rudimentary state of a stem or branch; an unexpanded flower.

_Bulb._ A subterranean leaf-bud with fleshy scales or coats.

_Bulbiferous._ Bearing bulbs.

_Bulblet._ A small bulb, especially one borne upon the stem.

_Bulbous._ Having the character of a bulb.

_Caducous._ Falling off very early.

_Calcarate._ Produced into or having a spur.

_Callus._ A hard protuberance or callosity.

_Calyculate._ Having bracts around the calyx imitating an outer calyx.

_Calyptra._ The membranous hood or covering of the capsule in Hepaticae and Mosses.

_Calyx._ The outer perianth of the flower.

_Campanulate._ Bell-shaped; cup-shaped with a broad base.

_Campylospermous._ Having seeds with longitudinally involute margins, as in some Umbelliferae.

_Campylotropous_ (ovule or seed). So curved as to bring the apex and base nearly together.

_Canaliculate._ Longitudinally channelled.

_Canescent._ Hoary with gray pubescence.

_Capitate._ Shaped like a head; collected into a head or dense cluster.

_Capitellate._ Collected into a small head.

_Capsular._ Belonging to or of the nature of a capsule.

_Capsule._ A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepaticae, etc.

_Capsuliferous._ Capsule-bearing.

_Carinate._ Having a keel or a projecting longitudinal medial line on the lower surface.

_Carpel._ A simple pistil, or one member of a compound pistil.

_Cartilaginous._ Of the texture of cartilage; firm and tough.

_Caruncle._ An excrescence or appendage at or about the hilum of a seed.

_Carunculate._ Having a caruncle.

_Caryopsis._ A grain, as of grasses; a seed-like fruit with a thin pericarp adnate to the contained seed.

_Castaneous._ Of a chestnut color; brown.

_Catkin._ An ament.

_Caudate._ Having a slender tail-like appendage.

_Caudex._ The persistent base of an otherwise annual herbaceous stem.

_Caulescent._ Having a manifest stem.

_Cauline._ Belonging to the stem.

_Cavernous._ Hollow; full of air-cavities.

_Cell._ One of the minute vesicles, of very various forms, of which plants are formed. Any structure containing a cavity, as the cells of an anther, ovary, etc.

_Cellular_ (tissue). Composed of short transparent thin-walled cells, in distinction from fibrous or vascular.

_Cespitose._ Growing in tufts; forming mats or turf.

_Chaff._ A small thin scale or bract, becoming dry and membranous.

_Chaffy._ Having or resembling chaff.

_Channelled._ Deeply grooved longitudinally, like a gutter.

_Chartaceous._ Having the texture of writing-paper.

_Chlorophyll._ The green grains within the cells of plants.

_Chlorophyllose._ Containing chlorophyll.

_Ciliate._ Marginally fringed with hairs.

_Ciliolate._ Minutely ciliate.

_Cinereous._ Ash-color.

_Circinate._ Coiled from the top downward, as the young frond of a fern.

_Circumscissile._ Dehiscing by a regular transverse circular line of division.

_Clavate._ Club-shaped; gradually thickened upward.

_Cleistogamous._ Fertilized in the bud, without the opening of the flower.

_Cleft._ Cut about to the middle.

_Climbing._ Ascending by laying hold of surrounding objects for support.

_Cluster._ Any assemblage of flowers on a plant.

_Clustered._ Collected in a bunch of any sort.

_Coalescence._ The union of parts or organs of the same kind.

_Coccus_ (pl. _Cocci_). One of the parts into which a lobed fruit with 1-seeded cells splits.

_Cochleate._ Spiral, like a snail-shell.

_Cohesion._ The union of one organ with another.

_Columella._ The persistent axis of some capsules, spore-cases, etc.

_Columnar._ Like a column.

_Commissure._ The surface by which one carpel joins another, as in the Umbelliferae.

_Comose._ Furnished with a _coma_ or tuft of hairs.

_Complicate._ Folded upon itself.

_Compound._ Composed of 2 or more similar parts united into one whole. _Compound leaf_, one divided into separate leaflets.

_Compressed._ Flattened laterally.

_Conceptacle._ In some Cryptogams a case or receptacle containing the organs of fructification.

_Conduplicate._ Folded together lengthwise.

_Confluent._ Running into each other; blended into one.

_Coniferous._ Cone-bearing.

_Connate._ United congenitally.

_Connective._ The portion of a stamen which connects the two cells of the anther.

_Connivent._ Coming into contact; converging.

_Conoidal._ Nearly conical.

_Convergent._ Approaching each other.

_Convolute._ Rolled up longitudinally.

_Cordate._ Heart-shaped with the point upward.

_Coriaceous._ Leathery in texture.

_Corm._ The enlarged fleshy base of a stem, bulb-like but solid.

_Corolla._ The inner perianth, of distinct or connate petals.

_Coroniform._ Shaped like a crown.

_Corrugate._ Wrinkled or in folds.