The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . fio. 8,. IJpper part of Flax-plant in blossom. u A PATTERN PLANT. [SECTION 2. 15. Blossoming. In Flax the flowers make their appearance at theend of the stem and branches. The growth, which otherwise might con-tinue them farther or indefinitely, now takes the form of blossom, and issubservient to tlie production of seed. 16. The Flower of flax consists, first, of five small green leaves,crowded into a circle: this is the Calyx, or flower-cup. When its sepa-rate leaves are referred to they are called Sepals, a name which distin-guishes them
The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . fio. 8,. IJpper part of Flax-plant in blossom. u A PATTERN PLANT. [SECTION 2. 15. Blossoming. In Flax the flowers make their appearance at theend of the stem and branches. The growth, which otherwise might con-tinue them farther or indefinitely, now takes the form of blossom, and issubservient to tlie production of seed. 16. The Flower of flax consists, first, of five small green leaves,crowded into a circle: this is the Calyx, or flower-cup. When its sepa-rate leaves are referred to they are called Sepals, a name which distin-guishes them from foliage-leaves on the one hand, and from petals on theother. Then come five delicate and colored leaves (in the Flax, blue), whichform the Corolla, and its leaves are Petals ; then a circle of organs, in.
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