. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FLOWERS OF THK FIELD AND FOREST. ing the first woekg of May its dusters of fi-iiKraiit, honey-braritiK flofH-era apt>ear liansinff from tlie ccntn- of a narrow lilic bract (Fi(r. IX,, 1). Efich flower ha? five. FIG. ^UGAR MAPLE. vanished, showing up most brilJiantly against dazzling white drifts. Very similar arc the flowers of tlie silver maple, Ac'r d-asycarpum, a nm (Fig. VHI., 3), while a tiiird iw- scs-t^g both (Fiu. VlIL, 2). has a cup-shape^I calyx divided iiit*; five t
. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FLOWERS OF THK FIELD AND FOREST. ing the first woekg of May its dusters of fi-iiKraiit, honey-braritiK flofH-era apt>ear liansinff from tlie ccntn- of a narrow lilic bract (Fi(r. IX,, 1). Efich flower ha? five. FIG. ^UGAR MAPLE. vanished, showing up most brilJiantly against dazzling white drifts. Very similar arc the flowers of tlie silver maple, Ac'r d-asycarpum, a nm (Fig. VHI., 3), while a tiiird iw- scs-t^g both (Fiu. VlIL, 2). has a cup-shape^I calyx divided iiit*; five teeth repre^ontintf five .eciKals. Nei- ther the sugar nor silver maple flower has a corolla, but in the rwl maple blossom live small, narrow petals are present. The pist>I is divided into two one-seeded parts, fium each of Avhicli develops later a witli? likv float. So the maple keys which in the «uin- mer will lie scatterod over country ro i^l™ and cilv streets, are really the fruit- of the tree {I'ig. 5). Another esrly blonming tree is the wood or American linden, Tilia This fine tree with heart-shai*d leaves is fuund thruUKhout Ea>iferri Canada from New Ri-unswick to Ijike Winnipeg. Dur FIG. OR sepals, five cream-coloured petals and many stamens arranged in five clusters. (Fi«. i,\., 2.) Each pistil develops into a round, hard, woody, one-seeded frint attached to the bract which acts as a float when the fruit falls in the late summer {Fijj. IX., 3). 'V'n:: rtowers with their Btrong scent and pretty colour, attract myriads of insects which eagerly sip the honey secreted by the seuals. One of the most charming of our Cana- dian trees, lending grace to the landscape from Novn Scotia to the North-West Ter- ritories, is the elm, Ulmus amerieana. Tie- fore the leaver supidy a light mantle of green, the flowers on-^leiidor dri>oping !*t:ilkH t'riuse the 8i pi-stil with its two stigmas gi-ows into a one-seeded fruit almost
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