. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. Order THE MILKWORTS. 185 S Fniit covered with prickles. Petals 4 or 5, spreading 1,2 § Fruit smooth. Petals i, erect, 2 of tliem clawed 3-5 1 jE. Hippooasta'netun. Horse Chestnut. Leaves of 7, oboyate leaflets. Petals 5. Fruit prickly. Panicles large, handsome. + 2 .E. glabra. Oliio Buckeye. Leaflets 5, oval or oblong. Petals 4. Tree ill- scented, blowers yellowish. Seed mahogany-color. W. 8 SL fla'va. £ig Buckeye. A large tree, with pale-yellow flowers. Le
. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. Order THE MILKWORTS. 185 S Fniit covered with prickles. Petals 4 or 5, spreading 1,2 § Fruit smooth. Petals i, erect, 2 of tliem clawed 3-5 1 jE. Hippooasta'netun. Horse Chestnut. Leaves of 7, oboyate leaflets. Petals 5. Fruit prickly. Panicles large, handsome. + 2 .E. glabra. Oliio Buckeye. Leaflets 5, oval or oblong. Petals 4. Tree ill- scented, blowers yellowish. Seed mahogany-color. W. 8 SL fla'va. £ig Buckeye. A large tree, with pale-yellow flowers. Leaflets 5-7 Petals very unequal, longer than stamens. W. 4 JE. Pa'Tia. Red-pmered B. Shrub 3-lOf. Fls. large, red, in thyrse-liKe racemes. Very handsome. S. t 5 â £. parviflo''ra. WliUe B. Shrub 2-3f. Petals 4, somewhat alike, spreading, thrice shorter than the stamens. S. 2. STAPHTLE'A. Bladder-nut Flowers perfect. Sepals 5, colored like the 5 petals. Stamens 6. Styles 3. Capsules 2 or 8, with thin, inflated walls.âShruhs. n S. trifo' Temate B. A handsome shrub, 6-8f. high. Leaves temate, leaflets ovate. Eacemes pendulous. Petals ^ -^ c 1 fijliate below.^ Fruit very large, 8- celled, inflated like a bladder. Order XLV. POLTGALA- CE^. The Milkworts. PlanU without stipules, hearing very- irregular flower* ; ttamens 4-8, diadelphous; anthers opening at the top, 1-celled; fruit a flattened, 2-celled, 2-seeded capsule, free from the calyx. Fig. 437. Polygala polygama: a, the radical flowers; 8, P. paucifolia; / the crest on the lower petal; 9, the stamens in 2 sets, and the style seen beneath the hf>oded lower petal. jFig. 440. The ovary and the style: 1, seed of P. sanguineft, with its 2-lobed caruncle; 2, seed of P. NottalllL POLTG'ALA. Milkwort Sepals 5, persistent, 2 of them (wings) wing-shaped and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of th
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