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. 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 A flower-bud castin? ils calyx, and, 276, a flower of Poppy. 573 f Celandine open- ing. 278. Frame of the aame, turned flatwise, and seeds still on it. 281 279 279. Flower-bud, &c. of Esohsclioltiia. 280. The cap-shaped calyx fallen otT. 281. The pod. Petals 4, crumpled or plaited in the bud, which nods before opening (except in the Prickly-Poppy). Ovary and pod inc
. 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 A flower-bud castin? ils calyx, and, 276, a flower of Poppy. 573 f Celandine open- ing. 278. Frame of the aame, turned flatwise, and seeds still on it. 281 279 279. Flower-bud, &c. of Esohsclioltiia. 280. The cap-shaped calyx fallen otT. 281. The pod. Petals 4, crumpled or plaited in the bud, which nods before opening (except in the Prickly-Poppy). Ovary and pod incompletely several-celled, by plates or placentas projecting from the walls and covered with numberless seeds. Stigmas making n flat sessile cap. Pod hard, opening by pores under the edge of the cap of stigmas, [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, (Argemone) Pricklt-Poppy. Pod bristly. Style present: stigmas 3 or 4, {Stylophorum) Celandine-Poppy. Pod smooth, slender (Fig. 277): stigmas 2, {Cheliddnium) Celandine. Ovary and long narrow pod 2-ceIled by a thick partition in which the seeds are em- bedded; stigma 2-horned, (Glaucium) * Hoen-Poppy. 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, * 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, Iviso
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