. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. ROSALES. 531 Africa. Some of the latter bear edible fruits. The bark of Brazilian trees of the genera Licania and Couepia is said to contain such consid- •erable quantities of silica, that it is burnt by the natives and used in the manufacture of pottery. Order Leguminosee.—The Pulse Family. Herbs, shrubs, and trees, with alternate and usually compound leaves ; flowers for the most part zygomorphic ; stamens usually twice as many as the petals ; pistil Pigs. 480-6.—Illustrations oi' Papilionace^. (480-5, Zathyrus odoratus.). Fio. 484. Fig. 480.—S
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. ROSALES. 531 Africa. Some of the latter bear edible fruits. The bark of Brazilian trees of the genera Licania and Couepia is said to contain such consid- •erable quantities of silica, that it is burnt by the natives and used in the manufacture of pottery. Order Leguminosee.—The Pulse Family. Herbs, shrubs, and trees, with alternate and usually compound leaves ; flowers for the most part zygomorphic ; stamens usually twice as many as the petals ; pistil Pigs. 480-6.—Illustrations oi' Papilionace^. (480-5, Zathyrus odoratus.). Fio. 484. Fig. 480.—Section of flower. Magnified. Mir. 482.—Calyx. Magnified. Fig. 484.—Kipe fruit. Fig. 486.—Section of seed of TetragonoWms. Magnified. Fig. 486. Fig. 481.—Diagram of flower. Fig, 483.—Stamens and piPtil Mag. Vk. 485.—Part of fruit, wiina seed. A monocarpellary and free ; seeds generally wanting an endosperm, vast order of 6500 species, distributed throughout the world. The species are usually disposed in three sub-orders, each containing many tribes. Sub-Order I, Fapilionacece, with zygomorphic flowers ; sta- mens generally ten, monadelplious or diadelphous. This sub-order contains a large number of plants of great economic importance. The food plants include the Pea (Pisum sativum), the so-cailed English Bean (Vicia faba), the Pole Bean {Phaseolus vulgaris), the Field Bean. 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 Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915. New York : H. Holt
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