Identifier: vegetablekingdom00lind (find matches)
Title: The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Lindley, John, 1799-1865
Subjects: Plants -- Classification
Publisher: London : Bradbury and Evans
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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m the back, showing the ovary and two side anthers ; 3. a section ofthe ovary, showing the ovule and its foramen; 4. a perpendicular section of a ripe fruit, showingthe embrjo lying in its N-itellus. L L 2 516 PIPERACEiE. (HypOGYNOUS EXOGENS. embryo, and it seems impossible to dovibt their being properly stationed among Dicoty-ledons. In Peperomia incana, the yoimg stems are midoubtedly endogenous in appear-ance, but in P. nigrum and Lonchitis they are as certainly exogenous, and it is probable that in the former case thewood eventually arranges it-self in rows. It has, however,been remarked by Blume, thatthe oldest spiral vessels, andthose which have acquii-ed awoody consistence, occupythe cucumference of the stem,while those more recentlyf onned are seated towards itscentre ; and this is a point\Ahich, as Mr. Bennett hasobserved, requires a carefulexamination.—Horsfields PI.Jar. p. 78. Pepperworts arerelated to Buckwheats, Sau-rurads, and Nettles ; fromall which, however, they are
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disting-uished by obvious cha-racters ; but more especiallyto Chloranths, from whichthey differ in the o\aile beingerect, and in the presence ofa Antellus or amniotic sacround the embryo. In theopinion of those who believePeppers to be Monocotyle-dons, theu station is nearArads, with which, indeed,they must be considered inany point of view to be insome measure connected. Exclusively confined to thehottest parts of the world,they are extremely commonin tropical America and theIndian Archipelago, but, ac-cordmg to Browai, are veryrare m equmoctial Africa. Only three species have been found on the west coast ; severalexist at the Cape of Good Hope. They delight in low places, valleys, and the banks of CCCLIII. Fig. CCCLIII.-^Macropiper methysticum.—P/i«;-»j. Journal. PlPERALES.) riPERACE^E. 517 Tliese plants are for the most part pungent aromatics, a property which they derivefrom the presence of a peculiar acrid resm, an ethereal oil, and a crystalline mattercalled Piperhie. But th

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