. 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; Botany. 275 276 275. A flower-bud casting its calyl, and, 276, a flower of Poppy. 277 278 277. Pod of Ce[.-indine open- ing. 279. Frame of Ihe eame, turned flatwise, and seeds still on 279. Flower-bud, &c. of EBchaoholtila. 280. The cap-shaped calyx fallen oflf, 281. The pod. Petals i, crumpled or plaited in the bud, which nods before opening (except in the Prickly-Foppy).
. 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; Botany. 275 276 275. A flower-bud casting its calyl, and, 276, a flower of Poppy. 277 278 277. Pod of Ce[.-indine open- ing. 279. Frame of Ihe eame, turned flatwise, and seeds still on 279. Flower-bud, &c. of EBchaoholtila. 280. The cap-shaped calyx fallen oflf, 281. The pod. Petals i, crumpled or plaited in the bud, which nods before opening (except in the Prickly-Foppy). Ovary and pod incompletely several-celled, by plates or placentas projecting from the walls and covered with numberless seeds. Stigmas making a flat cap. Pod hard, opening by pores under the edge of the cap of {Papaver) * Poppy. Ovary and pod strictly one-celled, opening by valves, and leaving the placentas as a slender frame between them. Flowers yellow, rarely white. Pod and leaves prickly. Style none: stigmas 4 or 6, (Argemdne) Prickly-Poppy. Pod bristly. Style present: stigmas 3 or 4, (Styldphm-um) Celandine-Poppy. Pod smooth, slender (Fig. 277): stigmas 2, (Chdidbnium) Celandine. Ovary and long narrow pod 2-celled by a thick partition in which the seeds are em- bedded; stigma 2-homed, {Glaudum) * Horn-Pofpy. Petals not crumpled in the bud, which does not nod. Petals 8 to 12, narrow, white. Pod oblong. Juice orange-red, (Sanguinaria) Bloodroot. Petals 4, broad, yellow. Sepals united into a pointed cap which falls off as a lid (Fig. 280, 281). Receptacle or end of the flower-stalk expanded and top- shaped. Stigmas 3 to 7, slender, unequal. Pod many-ribbed. Juice watery, colorless, but strong-scented, * Eschscholtzia. 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 &a
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