. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. 264 PLANT STKUCTUKES fruits {drupes), as apricots, peaches (Fig. 189), plums, cherries. 141. Legumes.—This is far the greatest family {Legumi- nosce) of the Archichlamydese, containing about seven thou- sand species, distributed everywhere and of every habit. It is the great zygomorphic group of the Archichlamydese, being elaborately adapted to insect jpollination. The more. Fig. 250. A legume plant (Lotus), showing flowering branch (1), a single flower (5) showing zygomorphic corolla, the cluster of ten stamcjis (3) which with the carpel is included in
. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. 264 PLANT STKUCTUKES fruits {drupes), as apricots, peaches (Fig. 189), plums, cherries. 141. Legumes.—This is far the greatest family {Legumi- nosce) of the Archichlamydese, containing about seven thou- sand species, distributed everywhere and of every habit. It is the great zygomorphic group of the Archichlamydese, being elaborately adapted to insect jpollination. The more. Fig. 250. A legume plant (Lotus), showing flowering branch (1), a single flower (5) showing zygomorphic corolla, the cluster of ten stamcjis (3) which with the carpel is included in the licel, the solitary carpel (/,) which develops into the pod or le- trume (.T), the i^ctals iu) dis^^ected apart and showing standard («), wings (6), and the two lower petals ir) which fold together to form the keel, and the floral dia- gram (7).—After Wossidlo. primitive forms of the Leguminosa3, the mimosas, acacias (Fig. ), etc., very much resemble true roses and the but- tercups, with their hypogynous regular flowers and nu- merous stamens, but the vast majority arc PnpiHn forms with very irregular (zygomorphic) flowers and few stamens. 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 Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton and company
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