. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. SAPINDAGE^-SOAPBERRY FAMILY BALLOON VINE. LOVE-IN-A-PUFF CardiospSrmum Halicdcabum. Cardiospermum, Greek, heart-seed; from the white, hfeart-shaped spot on the round black seed. A rapid-growing, annual climber, doing best in a warm situation; with small white flowers, and seed-vessels that look like tiny balloons. Native to the South-western States and Mexico. Summer. Stem.—Grooved, climbing by hook- like tendrils in the flower cluster. Leaves.—Alternate, twice ternate
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. SAPINDAGE^-SOAPBERRY FAMILY BALLOON VINE. LOVE-IN-A-PUFF CardiospSrmum Halicdcabum. Cardiospermum, Greek, heart-seed; from the white, hfeart-shaped spot on the round black seed. A rapid-growing, annual climber, doing best in a warm situation; with small white flowers, and seed-vessels that look like tiny balloons. Native to the South-western States and Mexico. Summer. Stem.—Grooved, climbing by hook- like tendrils in the flower cluster. Leaves.—Alternate, twice ternate, coarsely serrate. Flowers.—Small, white, in few- flowered axillary dusters. Sepals.—Four, the inner pair larger. Petals.—Four, each with an append-i age on the inner face; disk enlarged into two glands, one before each lower petal. Stamens.—Eight, filaments of varying length. Ovary.—Triangular, three-celled, one ovule in each cell. Po</.—Bladdery, inflated, three-lobed with winged ridges, containing one to three bony seeds the size of small peas, each with a heart-shaped aril adherent to the base. The inflated pod. of the Balloon Vine is an inch or more in diameter. As the round black seeds are each marked with a white heart, in accordance with the old idea of signatures, they have long been considered efl&cacious medicine for heart diseases. 276. Balloon Vine. Cardiospdrmum Halicdcabum. 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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