ASCIUM

(Lat.), n.n.?)-u3m(u‘m). See Ascrnr AS CLEPE I ON (Fr.), n.?n?, See ASCLEPIEION. ASCLEPIACEÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl.?p(klap)-i?-a(asyse2(ke?)-e(as-e2), Fr., asclépiacées. 1. A division of the Asclepiad ace, made by Reichenbach. 2. The Asclepiad aceæ. [B, 121, 172.] ASCLEPIAD ACEÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. A?s(a3s)-kle?p(klap)-i7-a8- ’se#(ke?)-e(a3-e2), For deriv., see ASCLEPIAS. … asclépiadacées. Ger., Asklepiadaceen. It., asclepiad a cee. Syn.: Ascleade [Jacquin, R. Brown, Endlicher, Decaisne, Bentham and Fisokery. The milk-weeds or asclepiads; an order of dicotyledonous herbs or shrubs belonging to the solanal alliance (Lindley) or the cohort Gentian a les [Bentham and Hooker], having a milky, frequently acrid juice, and bearing entire, exstipulate, usually oppos te leaves. The calyx and corolla are regular, 5-parted, and th are valvate in æstivation; the stamens are united to each other, and the pollen coheres in ma es (pollinia); there are 2 ovaries, with the 2 stigmas united and adherent to the stamens. The A, (Asclepiade) have been variously subdivided. By Bentham and Hooker and others they are divided into the suborders Periploceæ, including the single tribe Periploceæ, which have flowers with granulose pollen applied to the extremity of the acuminate or appendiculate anthers, and Enasclepiadeæ (Asclepiadeæ vere), comprising the tribes Sec am oneæ, Cynancheæ, Gonolobeæ, Marsdenieæ, Ceropegieæ, and Stapelieæ, which have waxy pollen in ma es (poilinia), of which there is usually but one in each loculus. By Endlicher the Secamonew are made a distinct suborder, and by Decaisne and Lindley the order is divided into the tribes Periploceæ, Secamonee, Asclepiadee vere, Gonolobeæ, Stapelieæ. In the most recent cla ification (Hooker's) the Stapelieæ are omitted as a distinct tribe. [B, 34, 42, 170, 212.] ASCLEPIADACEOUS, adj. A?s-kle?p’’i?-ad-a’shu’s, belonging to the Asclepiad aceæ.; ASCLEPIAD Æ (Lat.), n. m., pl. of Asclepiades. (klap)-i(e)’a3-de(das-e®). 1. The pl. of Asclepiades (q. v.). 2 Of Of or Decaisne, a division of the Asclepiadeæ vera, including Asclepias and 6 other genera, in which the corolla is naked at the throat and there is a staminal corona le up of 5 concave leaflets each furnished with an appendix. [B, 121, 170.} ASCLÉPIADE (Fr.),n.?-a8d. Syn.: dompte-venin. 1. In the Fr. Cod., the Cynanchum vincetoxicum. [B, 5.] 2. The genus Asclepias. [A, 385.] 3, See ASCLEPIADES.—A. bicolor. See ASCLEPIAS cura avica.—A. blane, A. blanche. See Cynan. CHUM vincetoxicum.—A. colorant. See GyMNEMA tingens.—A. de Curaçoa. See ÄSCLEPIAS cura avica.—A. de Syrie. See As- CLEPIAS Cornuti.—A. lactifère. See AscLEPIAS lactifera—A. laniflore. See AscLEPIAS laniflora.—A. tubéreuse, A. tubéreux. See ASCLEPIAS tuberosa._Racine. tubéreuse. The root of Asclepias tuberosa. ASCLEPIADEACE4E® [Lindley] (Lat.), n. f. pl. A2s(as)- Kkle?p(klap)-i*a?d(a3d)-e?-a(a3)'se?(ke*;e(a3-e?), See ASCLEPIAD ACEÆ. ASCLEPIADEÆ (Lat.), n f. pl. A?s(a3s)-kle?p(klap)-i?-a°d- (asdy'e?-e(a3-e?). Fr., asclépiadées. 1. Of R. Brown, Endlicher, Bentham and Hooker, and most botanists, the Asclepiad aceæ (q. v.). 2. Of Lindley, a tribe of the Asclepiad aceæ corresponding to the A. vere of Decaisne. [B, 170.]—A. genuine [Bartling]. The same as the Euasclepiadaceæ (q. v. under AscLEPIAD ACEÆ). [B, 170.]—A. veræ. 1. Of R. Brown, see A. genuine. 2. Of Endlicher, a suborder of the Asclepiad a cee, including all the Euasclepiadacce of Bentham and Hooker, except the Sec am oneæ, and divided by him into the tribes Cynancheæ, Gonolobeæ, and Per gular i nee. 3. Of Decaisne and Lindley, a tribe (also called A. by Lindley) of the Asclepiad a cee, including genera having stamens with connate filaments and bilocular anthers, each anther bearing a pair of pollinic ma es suspended by two threads. It includes the subdivisions A stephaneæ, Microlomæ, Hag)lostemmeæ, Cynoctonæ, Sarcostemical Eustegiæ, Asclepiadæ, Dita æ, and’ Oxypetale.’ [B, 34, 121,