. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. 282 Plants and their Wars in South Africa in aniciits or catkins. The pistillate flowers form catkins as in Willow and Poplar, or they may occur in few-flowered heads. In the Oak the head is reduced to one flower. The fruit of SalicaceK is a many-seeded capsule, in the other orders it is a nut. The flowers are dicecious or moncecious. They are out m good season in the early spring, and are swinging their gold-and-silver tassels before the leaves get large enough to be in the way of the wind-scattered Fk:. 255.—A, Catkin or nmcnt
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. 282 Plants and their Wars in South Africa in aniciits or catkins. The pistillate flowers form catkins as in Willow and Poplar, or they may occur in few-flowered heads. In the Oak the head is reduced to one flower. The fruit of SalicaceK is a many-seeded capsule, in the other orders it is a nut. The flowers are dicecious or moncecious. They are out m good season in the early spring, and are swinging their gold-and-silver tassels before the leaves get large enough to be in the way of the wind-scattered Fk:. 255.—A, Catkin or nmcntuni of the Oak. I. I^'lower of Oak. II. Female flowers. (Both x 3.) {I'Yoni Edriionds and Marlotll's " 1-^lenientary r^otany for South Africa ".) The flowers of Willows, Poplars, and Myrica (the Wax Bush) are sub- tended by a sinijle bract. The staminate flowers of the Oak have a greenish 6-parted perianth. The few genera in each order, the simple flowers and fossil forms, indicate that these orders represent very old families of flowering plants. SalicacE/I';.—Mowers direcious. Capsules containing many minute seeds. 'I'he order contains two genera, Populus. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stoneman, Bertha. London, New York, Longmans, Green
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