. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Classification of Plnii/s ,i-/ the Cactus plant, tlie stem may l)c reduced to a roundish or club-shaped body, sarrounded with cushions of leaf bases. Frequently a pair of stout thorns represent stipules of abortive leaves. An axillary thorn (reduced inflorescence) occur in some species. [Cac/iis has clustered thorns.) ^Vhat at first ^. Fig. 3o6.~E!//iAoriia Lathvris, L. I. [-"art of a plant. II. Inflorescence. III. Male flower (magnified). (From Thomf? and Bennett's "Structural and Physiological Botany".) seems to be a sin
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Classification of Plnii/s ,i-/ the Cactus plant, tlie stem may l)c reduced to a roundish or club-shaped body, sarrounded with cushions of leaf bases. Frequently a pair of stout thorns represent stipules of abortive leaves. An axillary thorn (reduced inflorescence) occur in some species. [Cac/iis has clustered thorns.) ^Vhat at first ^. Fig. 3o6.~E!//iAoriia Lathvris, L. I. [-"art of a plant. II. Inflorescence. III. Male flower (magnified). (From Thomf? and Bennett's "Structural and Physiological Botany".) seems to be a single flower is an inflorescence consisting of a group of staminate flowers and a single pistillate flower. The pistillate flower is raised on a stalk, and is reduced to an ovary. Each staminate flower is also raised on a little stalk or pedicel, and consists of a single stamen. The central stamens ripen first. The whole inflorescence is surrounded by a cup-shaped. 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 Stoneman, Bertha. London, New York, Longmans, Green
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