. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 155 Passion-FIower. PassiJIdra. Sepals 5, united at tlie ba?e. Petals 5, accompanied by a crown or ring formed of a double or triple fringe, inserted on the base of the calyx. Stamens 5, mona- delphous; the filaments making a long sheath to the slender stalk of the ovary: this is one-celled and becomes an eata- ble berry, with many seeds in 3 or 4 rows on its walls. T
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 155 Passion-FIower. PassiJIdra. Sepals 5, united at tlie ba?e. Petals 5, accompanied by a crown or ring formed of a double or triple fringe, inserted on the base of the calyx. Stamens 5, mona- delphous; the filaments making a long sheath to the slender stalk of the ovary: this is one-celled and becomes an eata- ble berry, with many seeds in 3 or 4 rows on its walls. The species are mostly South American; and some large-flowered and handsome ones are cultivated in hot-houses. The early missionaries fancied that they found in these flowers emblems of the implements of our Saviour's passion; the fringe repre- senting the crown of thorns; the larj^e anthers fixed bv their middle, hammers; and the 5 styles (tapering below and with, large-headed stigmas), the nails. We have two wild species, common S. and \\. 371. Passion-Plower No. 1, enlarged. 1. Small P. Leaves bluntly 3-lobed, otherwise entire; flowers greenish-yellow, 1'wide. 2. J^AYPOP P. Leaves 3-cleft, the lobes serrate; flowers 2' broad, white, with a triple flesh-colored and purple crown; fruit like a hen's egg in shape and size. P. incarnata. 40. CUHRANT FAMILY. Order GROSSULACE^.. 372. 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co
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