. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. POPULAR FLORA. 18A 1. Common Flax. Root annual; leftves lance-shaped; flower blue. Cultivated. L. v$U(iti»${mum. 2. ViiioiMiA Flax. Root perennial; leaves oblong or lanoe-ehaped; flowers very small, yellow. Dry woods. L. llrffinianuin. 22. WOOD-SOBBEL FAMILT. Order OXALIDACEiE. Small herbs with sour juice, compound leaves of three leaflets, and flowers nearly as in
. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. POPULAR FLORA. 18A 1. Common Flax. Root annual; leftves lance-shaped; flower blue. Cultivated. L. v$U(iti»${mum. 2. ViiioiMiA Flax. Root perennial; leaves oblong or lanoe-ehaped; flowers very small, yellow. Dry woods. L. llrffinianuin. 22. WOOD-SOBBEL FAMILT. Order OXALIDACEiE. Small herbs with sour juice, compound leaves of three leaflets, and flowers nearly as in the Flax family, but with 10 stamens, a 5-celled pod, and two or more seeds in each cell. One genus, viz. Wood"Sorrel* dxalis. Sepals, petals, and styles 5. Stamens 10; fllaments united (monadelphons) at the base. Pod thin, 6-lobed. Leaflets obcordate. Flowering in summer. 1. Common W. One-flowered scnpe and leaves rising fVom a scaly rootstock, hairy; petals lar^, white with reddish veins. N. in cold and moist woods. 0. Acetosilla. 2. Violet W. Sevenl-flowered scape and leaves, from a scaly bulb; petals violet. 8. Ykllow W. Stems ascending, leafy; flowers 2 to 6 on one peduncle, small, yellow. 0, $tricta, 23. GERANIUM FAMILY. Order GERANIACE^ Herbs or small shrubs, with scented leaves, having stipules, the lower ones opposite. Roots astringent. Scpala 5, overlapping. Petals 5. Stamens 10, but part of them in some cases without anthers: fila- ments commonly united at the bottom. Pistils 5 grown into one, that is, all united to a long beak of the receptacle (except the 5 stigmas); and when the fruit is ripe the styles split away from the beak and curl up or twist, carr}-ing with them the five lit- tle one-seeded pods, as shown in Fig. 334. — There are three genera, viz. Geranium or Cranesbill; Erodium, which differs in having only 6 stamens with anthers, and the fruit-bearing styles bearded inside; and Pelargonium, which has the corolla more or less irregula
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