. Wild flower families; the haunts, characters, and family relationships of the herbaceous wild flowers, with suggestions for their identification. Botany. ;8 WILD FLOWER FAMILIES four or five inches long, and linear-lanceolate in shape; in the Carolinian form they are two or three inches long, and ovate-lanceolate in shape. The blossoms are very similar. The Spring Beauty is an excellent example of what the botanists call protandry,—that is, the. SPRING BEAUTY shedding of the pollen by the stamens before the the stigma opens. The first day that the petals unfold the stamens stand erect around
. Wild flower families; the haunts, characters, and family relationships of the herbaceous wild flowers, with suggestions for their identification. Botany. ;8 WILD FLOWER FAMILIES four or five inches long, and linear-lanceolate in shape; in the Carolinian form they are two or three inches long, and ovate-lanceolate in shape. The blossoms are very similar. The Spring Beauty is an excellent example of what the botanists call protandry,—that is, the. SPRING BEAUTY shedding of the pollen by the stamens before the the stigma opens. The first day that the petals unfold the stamens stand erect around the pistil, and are already shedding their pollen. But the three-lobed stigma of the pistil is not exposed; the stigmatic surfaces are tightly pressed against each other. On this first day the bees visit the. 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 Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947. Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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